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