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Assalamu'alaikum... Hello everyone! This is nila for N Channel! I'm talking about not-really-important stuffs, but actually important for you who can the lessons. Today, I'm going to tell you about 5 Good Songs for Teaching English. What's your teachers' favorite activity in classroom when they are using music/song as media? Is it (a) building a snowman? Or is it (b) training a dragon? Or is it (c) warm up activity while improving your listening skill? So the music's played, the western sing, and then the students will filling the blank in their worksheets based on the lyrics of the song. It's not bad at all. Using musics/songs in classroom is not only for teaching listening; but also for teaching sub-skills like vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar, and for other skills like speaking. So, what are they-the 5 good songs for teaching English? 1. Selena Gomez - Love You Like a Love Song Beside for listening, pronunciation and speaking, th...

Assalamu'alaikum... Hi readers. Have you ever though about searching information (about anything) through other search engines beside google? Actually there are a lot of search engines that provide you to find information, pictures and so on. indeed, the most popular one is google. Internet allows you to access everything easily. Every single topic is available. However, especially as English teachers/learners, you should strongly consider which information you can take and which one you can't. As Larry Ferlazzo has explained about "Best Search Engines for ESL/EFL Learners"; The Carrot Search Engine ,   Quintura ,  Boolify ,   Google's  unveiled a new feature in its search engine ,   Askives ,   Kngine ,  2Lingual , and  Oolone . For the complete article, you can click here . Here, I will show an example of mind-mapping which was created based on the search engine result about materials in learning English: This mind-map is very usefu...

Assalamu'alaikum.... Hello everyone! Do you know how many features in your computer/laptop that can be used as media for teaching or learning English? Do you know what kinds of websites that can give you information or tools for teaching or learning English? As I have briefly explained in my previous post about CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) , we can figure out how computer is really helpful for our teaching or learning process. One of them is using timeline to explain or show sections of materials in your book or chapter, deadline of your assignment, also you can show to your students the schedule of lesson materials that they are going to learn along semester. This following picture is an example of my web-based timeline about the development of CALL: Actually, there are several web-based timeline creators. In the example above I used tikitoki . It is very easy to create it. You just need to sign up in the website and build your account, and you can directl...