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Vocaroo: Record and share your voice

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Vocaroo  is an online voice recording tool with simple options for saving and sharing. It can certainly add a new dimension to your classroom teaching. There are a number of tasks you can accomplish using Vocaroo: you can provide oral feedback to your students, ask them to record their speech, give them simple home tasks for example, reflecting on a chapter they have covered in class and share their recorded thoughts via online platforms.These are just some instances.  We teachers can always  be creative in assigning purposeful tasks to our students and Vocaroo is here to support our teaching aims. Features of Vocaroo Vocaroo is giving you the chance to record your voice online for free. isn't it amazing? The layout you will see in the first place is not that eye-catching, neither for you nor your students. But once you start playing with its features, I am sure, you will realize how it can be an asset to your classroom. Some other interesting features of Vocar...

Encourage Autonomy through Tubequizard

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Tubequizard is a great tool for intensive listening practice through videos. It has a bank of ready made quizzes on pronunciation practice, grammar, vocabulary in contexts and many more. All quizzes are based on YouTube videos of movies, songs, political speeches and a lot more. Not only that,  learners' language proficiency level (i.e. A2, B1, C1 etc.) can be chosen before you think of the type of practice (i.e. vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar for listeners, grammar in context etc. ) and categories (i.e. business, entertainment, film & animation, information technology etc. ) you want them to practice. Tubequizard promises autonomous learning in a very creative and interesting way. Student can engage in self-practice through this site and internalize grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation on their own by decoding.  Students  usually go through  the process of trial and error  when involved in autonomous learning and the activity design in Tubequizard ...