Intermediate Level Reading, Speaking, Listening and Writing Activities with Web 2.0 Tools

Reading Activities

 

Englishforeveryone: This site offers students a great many of reading comprehension worksheets with some types of questions like multiple choice tests below. And also in these worksheets, there are various questions for the purpose of developing explanation, statement and writing skills. In other words, this site is not only for improving reading skills but also writing skills. 

Reading Passages Ranked by Grades

Example I - Clean Water Act 

Example II - Materials

 

 

 

Esl-lounge: This precious tool is a good opportunity for students to improve their reading and comprehensive skills with various of assessment techniques like 'multiple-choice questions,' 'true/false questions,' 'gapped text exercises,' 'matching the opposites' and 'putting sentences into correct order.'

 Reading Passages 

Example I - Changes in Town - True/False 

 Example II - The Dangers of Radiation - Gapped Text

 

 

Speaking Activities

 

Eslflow: This site consists of many speaking activities. Worksheets including pictures and short descriptions are given to students to talk about. Here are the links of activities:

Activities

Example I - Computers and the Internet 

Example II - The Power 

 

 

 

Eflsensei:This site is a great helper for both teachers and students providing them a lot of speaking activities. (some of them are downloadable worksheets) Teachers can follow the instructions in each activity and apply them to students in the classroom. Here is a link of icebreakers, warmers&fillers and activities by topic that can be used by teachers:

Speaking Activities

Example I - I Am..

Example II - Let's Travel America

Example III - Unfinished Sentences

 

 

 

Listening Activities

 

Esolcourses: This site consists of many listening activities and exercises allowing students to listen first and then check what they have understood from the passages.

Listening Exercises ranked by Grade

Example I - Antisocial Networking

Example II - Tower of London

Agendaweb: This site offers students many listening activities with pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, vocabulary activities and post-listening exercises. Students can choose the listening passage according to their degree and grade.

Intermediate Listening Exercises

Example I - Medical Advise

Example II - Vacation plans

 

 

Writing Activities

 

Autoenglish: This simple site is a good resource for students searching for writing exercises. It offers exercises to students who are at the level of beginner, pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced. Here are some exercises for intermediate students:

Autoenglish

Asking for Information

Job Application

Report Writing

 

 

 

Esl-galaxy: This site offers teachers and students a great many of printable worksheets for English activities. Among them, here are some links of writing exercises and examples.

Writing Exercises Ranked by Grades

Example I - Martin Luther King

Example II - Napoleon Bonaparte

Example III - My Last Summer Vacation

 

 

B1 Level Writing Activities with 5 Web 2.0 Tools

Unit 1: Interests and Activities

Here are web 2.0 tools to teach students about 'Interests and Activities'

Lingolia: This site is good for students to learn grammar rules and study with various exercises. In order for students to write down an appropriate and grammatically correct writing activity, they should know about the grammer rules that is going to be used in the essay. For 'Interests and Activities' topic, the students should be good at Simle Present Tense and Simple Past Tense.

Simple Present Tense - Introduction and Usage

Simple Present Tense - Exercises

Simple Past Tense - Introduction and Usage

Simple Past Tense - Exercises

Bubly.us: Bubly is an easy tool for getting students brainstorming. After learning the rules and usage very well, they are given sentences about the topic. By using this site, students are expected to find key words and brainstorm on sentences written below:

-Talk about Music

-Talk about what to do in your free times

-Talk about past events and present activities
-Talk about Sports

-Talk about your interests

Bubbl

Looseleaves: This site is quite useful for students to improve their writing skills. After finding key words and brainstorming on them, they are expected to, for example, write about their interets in sports.

Looseleaves

Reverso: Reverso is a site consisting of translation, grammer exercises and spell check. Students can use the feature of 'spell check' to make sure that their writing activity is grammatically correct.

Grammer Check

Edublogs: Edublogs, one of the most popular educational blog site, is pretty useful for publishing their writings. After checking and correcting their mistakes, they can publish their writing activity through this site to convey their work to other people.

Edublogs

B1 Level Reading and Writing Activities with Web 2.0 Tools

Unit 4: Future Plans

Here are web 2.0 tools to teach students about 'Future Plans':

  

 

Penzu: This site is an online diary and personal journal which helps students improve their writing skills. Students are asked to write about their future plans like what they want to be or where they want to be in the future.

Penzu

Englishgrammersecrets: This site includes various grammer lessons and exercises for students. It is suggested for students to read the grammer explanations first, and then do the exercises below. These exercises are 'Mix and Match', 'Put the Words in the Correct Order', 'Complete the Sentences' and 'Group the Sentences.'

Going to

Will

Going to or will

Englishexercises: This site offers lots of exercises from vocabulary to grammer to the students. Here in this 'future plans' activity, students are expected to comprehend the schedule and choose the right answer.

Future Plans - Comprehension

Ego4u: This site allows students to practice on grammer, writing and vocabulary skills. In this activity, they can practice on future tense in three aspects: The positive, negative and question forms of 'will.' Links are below for the students.

Positive Sentences

Negative Sentences

Questions

Isabelperez: This simple site is based on teaching the tenses of English. Each tense is characterized by a stick man, when we click on them, a page of which filled with the form of the tense and use of the tense appears.

Exercises on the basis of form, use and contrast are below in the link.

Going To Boy

Nonstopenglish: Students can practice their English Grammer and vocabulary sites thanks to this site. They can filter their level and choose among the various quizzes appropriate for them.

Will or Going to

Will / Won't

Grammerbank: This site offers students a vast variety of exercises from grammer to vocabulary. And this exercise below is a dialouge aiming for students to reinforce their grammer knowledge and comprehend what they have read.

 Dialogue Gap Filling