Today we learnt some way to arrange reading-aloud activities for students on the Internet. I am going to introduce two of the tools here and show you how wonderful they are to practise speaking with students. This has been my concern and I always think that it is difficult to teach oral English. The reason is that it is hard for me to give individual attention to every student and provide them with instant feedback during the lesson due to the limited time.
1. Fluency Tutor
Fluency Tutor is an excellent tool for teaching and learning! That's actually what I have been looking for! Really blessed to get to know this reading-aloud tool for teaching listening and speaking!
With reading materials of different levels in Fluency Tutor, you can choose those that suit your students. Students can listen to the text in various speed. It is very useful for the students with weak English foundation to start practising in a slow speed, and then try the normal one. Moreover, you can find a dictionary function there which provides you with English meanings. Apart from that, the function that i find absolutely amazing is that teachers can freely create or edit their materials according to the students' ability.
2. Audacity
It is amazing to use Audacity to make audio files. Actually, this is my first time to produce my own sound track with Audacity. Hard to imagine that this is much easier than I thought.
Enjoy my audio! Here is the script from Ecclesiastes 3 (NIV)
Ecclesiastes 3
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to
die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time
to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give
up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gogfyaxa5sgqqcb/A%20time%20for%20everything2.wav?dl=0
As you can see in the picture below, it is not difficult to create and edit your sound track with background music and sound effect. Learning is fun with multimedia elements, especially when reading out by your English teacher! With interesting sound effect, it does a great help in creating a full-filled lesson! Besides, we can also give out the sound file to our students through Dropbox or online learning platform so that they can also listen and imitate the recordings anytime and anywhere they want! More importantly, for teachers, we don't need to repeat the same material a hundred times before every student is able to read it out! haha!! Killing two birds with one stone!!
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