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Three Google Tricks for English Learners
Google has some cool language-learning features!
The way I teach and learn languages today is very different from the language lessons I took as I was growing up.
Forget the textbooks and “repeat after me” CDs in the language lab, nowadays teachers can choose from podcasts, YouTube shorts, apps and interactive websites to prescribe to their students.
I’m a pretty modern teacher in that I rarely use books, paper or even the whiteboard in my lessons. I connect my computer to a big screen, and type vocabulary that I then copy and paste onto my students’ Padlets.
Likewise, when I give them ideas of what to work on between lessons, I am likely to suggest using an app, watching a video, or completing an exercise online.
Through my digital teaching journey, I’ve found some cool technological hacks for my English learners. Three of these can be accessed simply by using “that” search engine.
Like it or loathe it, Google offers a range of clever features and hidden tricks, and some of these can be exploited by English learners.
The pronunciation tool
This is something I often demonstrate in lessons. If you’re not sure about the pronunciation of a word (and your…
