For a quick game of word ordering to make sentences, try out Wall of Words.
Category: Technology
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Tool #67: Wall of Words: grammar game
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Tool#66: Danny Choo
Danny Choo loves Japan Danny Choo loves Japan. Born in England, he has come to Japan recently, and with incredible energy, posts regularly about Japan in his blog. A great way for our students to see what foreigners think of Japan.
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Tool #65: Japan By the Numbers
What Japan thinks I’ve always thought that talking about numbers gets short shrift (not enough attention) in most language classes. People talk about numbers a lot in normal conversation, and we hardly ever practice them in class. I’d like to do a whole class about using numbers in English. I think it would be a blast.
I’d certainly use this site in that class, What Japan Thinks is a look at Japan through questionnaires and statistics. I think it is a great way to talk about Japan, and about people.
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Tool #64: Simple Wikipedia
Simple English Like Wikipedia in Japanese? In English? Try it in simple English. Great for student research and other projects.
http://simple.wikipedia.org/
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Tool #63: 74,000 pictures of nouns
80 million tiny images OK, these guys from MIT wanted to see what 80 million images looked like whent they were all squashed together. But the neat thing is that they took about 74,000 vocabulary words, and created an image out of other images to show what the meaning was. This is actually a project to get people to help computers recognize images. You can help by clicking on an image, and defining parts of it. A great way to get discussion going about almost anything. Read more aobut this at the ReadWriteWeb.