Last year, one of my students introduced our class to Learn American English Online, a website that he liked to use on his smartphone to practice his grammar during breaks at work and at home. As I explained in an earlier blog post, this website includes seven color-coded levels of instruction, ranging from beginner to advanced. Each lesson is introduced by a folksy video that explains the relevant grammar point and includes a series of grammar quizzes and dictation exercises (with answers) that students can use at home for additional controlled practice.The website is a great resource in a “flipped classroom,” because it allows students to preview a grammar point at home before coming to class to practice the use of the grammar in communicative activities.This semester, I have also started to use another feature of the website for my beginning students. For each level, there are a series of reading activities that reinforce the particular grammar point of the lesson. Recently, for instance, we were practicing the use of the present continuous tense. So I downloaded the reading for that tense, and used it as the basis for a 30-minute paired running dictation activity. The students then worked with other pairs to compare notes on what they had written and made whatever corrections they felt were warranted after consulting with their classmates on vocabulary and spelling.
I read this article and its very helpful in getting TESOL certified: http://tesoltrainers.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-i-really-need-to-get-tesol-certified.html
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