Online tools I have used

• Kahoot
• Quizlet
• TED-Ed Lessons
• Online dictionaries

How can we use these online tools in class?

Kahoot

Kahoot is an online game-based learning tool. Teachers can create multiple choice exercises, jumble-sentences and quizzes. Students play and learn using their smartphones in a motivating and engaging way. You can use it to revise before a test, to introduce a new topic and check background knowledge or to check if they understood a topic you taught at the end of the class. 

Quizlet

Quizlet is a mobile learning tool. It is very useful to study sets of vocabulary in a variety of entertaining ways. Students can create sets for different vocabulary areas to study on their own through their mobile phones. This app offers the possibility to create tests and we can make our students complete them through their mobile phones or computers in the classroom.

TED-Ed Lessons

We can choose an engaging video for our students and create a lesson. If we want our students to learn about a specific topic that will then be discussed in class, we can ask our students to work on a TED-Ed lesson we have previously prepared. Students watch a video and complete the tasks the lesson shows. This tool helps students practice their listening comprehension skills. For instance, you want to introduce the topic of 'food' so you can prepare a TED-Ed Lesson using a scene from the movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs".

Online dictionaries

Nowadays, everything is becoming digitalized - even dictionaries! Using big and heavy dictionary books in class may be boring and difficult for young learners. Luckily, every dictionary has its own webpage. It is important to help our students become autonomous towards their own learning. If they need the meaning of a word, we can tell them to access to an online dictionary and look that word up! Using dictionaries does not need to be boring. We can ask our students use these tools in a game-like situation! For instance, we divide them into two or more groups and write words on the whiteboard. They are supposed to look up their meanings and find an example. Then, they write the meaning and the example on the board. If they do it correctly, they win a point. The group that finishes first wins.