Online tools for english language teaching

Platforms for playing games in class
Hoping to make learning more engaging for your students? Why not turn tests into games? For this, you can take advantage of interactive apps that make it easy for you to generate your own quizzes and convert them into fun challenges for your students.



Teacher Shella, an English teacher in Taiwan, began using Kahoot! when her school shifted to remote learning.
Kahoot!
An online, game-based learning platform, Kahoot! lets you create and share your own educational games quickly and easily. Teachers can use it as a warm-up activity, to review concepts they’ve taught, or as a form of assessment. What’s more, it’s totally free to use!
Shella, from the Philippines, is an English teacher to primary students in Taiwan. When they shifted to online classes this year, Kahoot! became her favorite digital tool, not only for motivating her students but also for checking their understanding of the lesson. “I would tell them that I’d know if they were listening in class because their Kahoot! scores would show me!” she shared.
Making your own learning game on Kahoot! is pretty straightforward:

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  You can choose to add text, images, and diagrams to your quizzes
  
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  Once your game is ready, you’ll get a unique PIN to share with your students
  
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  Any student who has the PIN can play the game on their computer or mobile device
  

Teachers should strive to prepare and ask questions that stimulate thinking and feeling. They should generally avoid questions that can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no,” or where the answer is so obvious that the students are not motivated to think about it. Teachers should also avoid questions that could spark controversy as this may frustrate the students and create contention in the class, which grieves the Spirit.
When asking questions in class, it is important for teachers to give students time to think about their response. Sometimes teachers ask a question, pause for a second or two, and then when no one immediately responds, panic and give the answer themselves. Effective questions, however, often require thought and reflection, and students may need time to find the answer in the scriptures or to formulate a meaningful answer. On occasion it can be helpful to give students time to write down their answer before responding.
Jesus Christ, the Master Teacher, used different types of questions to encourage others to ponder and apply the principles He taught. His questions varied depending on what He was seeking to bring about in the lives of those He was teaching. Some questions encouraged His listeners to think and to refer to the scriptures for answers, such as when He asked, “What is written in the law? how readest thou?” (Luke 10:26). Other questions were intended to invite commitment, as when He asked, “What manner of men ought ye to be?” (3 Nephi 27:27).
While there is a wide variety of questions a teacher may ask, there are four general types of questions that are particularly important in gospel teaching and learning:
Questions that invite students to search for information
Questions that lead students to analyze for understanding
Questions that invite feelings and testimony
Questions that encourage application
Search questions help students build their basic understanding of the scriptures by inviting them to search for important details relating to the content of the scripture block. Because search questions encourage students to look for information within the text of the scriptures, it is helpful to ask such questions before reading the verses where the answers are found. This focuses the students’ attention and allows them to discover the answers within the scriptural account.
Search questions often include words such as who, what, when, how, where, and why. Some examples of questions that invite students to search for information include:
According to Matthew 19:22, why did the rich young man leave feeling sorrowful?
In 1 Samuel 17:24, how did the men of Israel respond when they saw Goliath? How did David respond in verse 26?
What counsel did Alma give his son Shiblon in Alma chapter 38, verses 5–15?
Answers to search questions should establish a foundation of basic understanding upon which other types of questions can then build to prompt greater understanding and application. The Savior’s question, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?” (Matthew 16:13) produced a background of information. The answers given by His disciples prepared them for the deeper and more poignant question, “But whom say ye that I am?” (Matthew 16:15).
Questions That Lead Students to Analyze for Understanding [5.1.2]
Analyze questions are usually asked after students have become familiar with the verses they are studying. They can invite learners to seek for a broader and deeper understanding of the scriptures. They can help students examine relationships and patterns or discover contrasts within the scriptures. Analyze questions almost always have more than one possible answer¹.
Analyze questions generally serve at least one of three purposes. They can help students:
Better understand the context and content of the scriptures.
Identify gospel principles and doctrines.
Develop a deeper understanding of those principles and doctrines.