What is Elllo?
Elllo is a website that provides free reading, listening and vocabulary activities made by native and non-native speakers of English. These audio or audiovisual recordings present real English with diverse accents, and also activities related to these recordings. Teachers can use this tool for different levels from pre-intermediate to advanced. It provides thousands of listening material which can be downloaded and saved into your computer. The recordings are also in the form of monologues, dialogues (between two or more people from various countries), games, videos or news.
You can find Elllo by following this link:
elllo.org
You can find Elllo by following this link:
elllo.org
How to use Elllo?
First, you will find a list with the latest and previous contributions to this site. You can either choose one of them and explore or you can also look for some specific features by selecting one from the list named as 'sort by' in the left side of the home page.
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Second, it gives you the possibility to make your search even more accurate and easier by selecting any of the features displayed such as, topic, country, media and level in the right side of your screen.
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Then, for example, if you want to raise awareness on different accents of people from a certain country you would have all the listening recordings which have been done for speakers from that country, after, you can choose the topic and level of the listening you want to use.
Second, it gives you the possibility to make your search even more accurate and easier by selecting any of the features displayed such as, topic, country, media and level in the right side of your screen.
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Then, for example, if you want to raise awareness on different accents of people from a certain country you would have all the listening recordings which have been done for speakers from that country, after, you can choose the topic and level of the listening you want to use.
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Third, the audiovisual recording (http://www.elllo.org/video/M101/M120English.htm) that you have chosen will display as follows:
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In the picture above you can see the video ready to be played and in the right side you have the possibility to see the 'transcript' of the audio or you can hide it if you want and also there is a 'video quiz' to answer after listening to the recording.
There are many ways you can use Elllo, you just need some time to explore it and find out what best suits your needs.
- Elllo gives teachers the possibility to use it in class and also they can encourage their students to use and practice their listening and reading skills.
- Students can practice their reading comprehension sub-skill, too.
- Students can have access and benefit by the use of authentic materials. For instance, they can listen to how a language is actually spoken, with hesitations, pauses, repairs, etc. which may be difficult at first but they can be exposed to it, face these real challenges be aware of, and finally, cope with them.
- Students also get more engaged and motivated with the use of authentic materials. Mainly because these materials can link students with the world, beyond the classroom.
- It trains students' listening skill because they can be exposed to different accents of native and non-native speakers of English.
Caro, I find it a really helpful to beginning and intermediate learners. What do you think for advanced students? Are there sufficient exercises for these students?
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