Sometimes I get frustrated when I find great websites for the SMART Board but they're blanketed in advertisements. To me it's very sad when people develop wonderful learning activities to share but feel it's okay to place huge advertisements on the same page that children will be using.
One solution is to find websites developed by educators who simply want to help students learn as opposed to making $50 a month through annoying product placement.
This morning I found a great website called Lauri's ESL Website developed by an educator with 35 years experience teaching ESL. Here name is Lauri Fried-Lee from the City College of San Francisco. Her website contains a wealth of ESL resources and most all of them work great on the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. I was especially impressed with the Listening Activities section of her website.
Pictured below are screenshots of two separate listening activities. In the first one, students click to hear a short conversation and then they answer a few questions about what they just heard. The second activity has students listen to a sentence and then place the correct picture in the box corresponding the word they hear in the sentence.
Pictured below are screenshots of two separate listening activities. In the first one, students click to hear a short conversation and then they answer a few questions about what they just heard. The second activity has students listen to a sentence and then place the correct picture in the box corresponding the word they hear in the sentence.
Lauri has many, many more activities similar to these that work great on the SMART Board and are very easy to use.
Thank you Lauri for creating such an outstanding "free" resource for ESL teachers and students! Your hard work is appreciated! If you like Lauri's website, why not send her a thank you email to let her know!
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