Using an ipod touch to teach English
January 29th, 2010 | by nick |I use my ipod touch as an aid to teaching English to small groups of private students. I find it very handy as a resource for:
- Photos (personalisation). Old photos of me leading to conversation about childhood, etc.
- Photos in the news downloaded from the web.
- Photos on topics of interest to my students, eg. local history, art
- Having a store of information and photos to be accessed when a topic arises
- BBC podcasts for listening
- The dictionary.com app
- The Wikipedia app. A dump version accessible anywhere. Incredibly useful as a resource.
- Stopwatch for games
- Making notes – list of films I’ve seen this year, books as a prompt to conversation
- Handy rules of thumb, downloaded, available always
- As a way of encouraging students to download BBC podcasts by showing them how they work
