English vocabulary flash games

http://englishvocabularylists.blogspot.com/

Area : Vocabulary
Rate : ★★★★★
Target : Young kids and middle school students





This web is on blogspot. And it is well made and well organized.

Here will you find many English word lists for learning vocabulary with pictures and sound. And also there are many games that are good for memorizing and confirming the words that learners learned from the lists.

These are lists of some topics which provide interesting pictures and sounds.

And also there are many funny game that can grab students' interests.

This relationship between word lists and games are perfectly effective for your students' learning. And the moving flash can motivate their efforts more but I think it could be possible to print out it and use it offline classroom.

And also the arrangement by topics are very simple and meaningful. Try it and let your learners get some fun.


1)Learner fit
The vocabulary words definately fit the learners in terms of the topics that are covered. And the levels of the vocabulary are very various-beginner, intermediate and advanced-, so you can control it. And the students can see the need for learning the vocabulary words with pictures and sounds. And the words are chosen to match the students' levels of language. Actually this web can control the level of the quiz and vocabulary. And also topics of the vocabulary.
2)Explicit vocabulary teaching
The activities provide explicit instruction to teach vocabulary. And also the pictures and sounds may help the learners' understanding effectively.
3)Interaction with the computer
The activities provide opportunities for interaction with the computer in a way that focuses students' attention on unfamiliar vocabulary. The pictures and sounds will do. So the computer can provide students with help understanding the vocabulary that they do not know.
4)Interaction with other learners
The activities can't guide learners to work with classmates and contribute to online discussions. It is for one person. But if you want to plan for pair activities, you can do it.
5)Two types of evaluation
It provide feedback to learners about their responses and evaluation of learning outcomes through quizzes that give learners information about their performance. But there is not scores but the learners can know where they are wrong.
6)Strategy development
The activities promote good vocabulary learning strategies but not reading strategies. And it provides guidance for students to develop strategies that will help them continue to learn vocabulary on the Internet. They keep using this web for vocabulary learning.

How to use?

I recommend you to use it in-class. It is large enough to see and makes your class more fun and meaningful. Enjoy the games with your students. Or print out them and give them to your students. Make your students find the correct answers, try their answers on the Internet. If the student get all correct answers, give him or her good compensation. For these games, your students will learn vocabulary that you choose more exciting and interesting. So they don't have to learn vocabulary no more!