Listen To The Voice Of Voice Of America!

             Hi everyone. Here I am again. Today I will share a website which I ran into while I was searching for a good website to improve my listening skill in English. The author of this web site is Voice Of America which is an internatioanal brand. VOA launched in 1959. It has been working for more than half a century. Since its foundation it was working on teaching English as Special English. In 2014, its line of products was expanded to include more English teaching materials, and the service became known as Learning English.  

             This website is generally based on world news which includes business, science, U.S. life, popular culture and other topics. There are various online texts, MP3s and podcasts that let people read, listen and learn American English on these topics. Its audio programs and captioned videos are written using vocabulary at the pre-intermediate and intermediate level. The site's programs are read one-third slower than normal English speed so anyone can understand this native speech easily.

                According to the author "VOA Learning English" is appropriate for beginners. It is true that there are some videos including very beginning topics like acquaintance phase. But  it is not enough to consider the site at beginning level. In my opinion, the words and texts in the website are too difficult for beginners' comprehension. As I observed, "VOA Learning English" aims to improve one's level rather than teach English from the beginning. 

                Because of its long-standing background, VOA has a good quality on Learning English brand. It is really a reliable about accuracy of the information and there is no broken link on the website. Thanks to all these positive features of it, not only learners but also teachers can benefit from VOA with the peace of mind. Teachers who don't have any facility to create a natural environment for the students can suggest this website to his/her students. Because the videos on the website are dramatised by experts from real conversations and this makes the colloquial language catchy. 

  

                  There are much more materials which I haven't mentioned about that website. So let's explore more and listen to the voice of Voice Of America all together! 

Here is The New Face of RSS: Cute Cube Dude!

Hey!
Nowadays, I've explored a practical way of subscribing web sites and now, I'm going to introduce you this way called RSS.

Firstly, if you don't know what is RSS, don't worry about it. I will make it clear for you.

RSS means Rich Site Summary and it is often called Really Simple Syndication. An RSS document called "feed" includes full or summarized text, publishing date, author's name etc. There are lots of services for RSS such as Feed Reader, Digg Reader, Fresh RSS, Flow Reader, Feedly (Please click here for more options). You can use any of them. If you ask my choice let me tell you, it is "Feed Reader". As all the other RSS services, Feed Reader enables us to surf on our followed pages tidily without wasting time. It also prevents the loss of our favourite links.

Let's begin to use this beneficial technology all together by discovering a new blog! Here is my favourite one. The blog which I've attached is a marvelous resource for English learners of all levels who are literates. You can find a lot of materials such as games, songs, reading passages, videos, all kinds of exercises and also suggestions for some learning problems. Thanks to its rich content I highly recommend it. In addition to learners, teachers who want to enrich their lessons with such an innovative tool should make use of this site.

Boring Coursebooks Out, Popcorn In!

Hi guys! Today I will attach our new task given by our lecturer. Actually it is a recreation rather than a task for us because of the "watching a film" part of it. We were supposed to watch a film in pairs as you understand and write a review for it. The aim of this task indeed was learning how to use a wiki page. Me and my partner had some difficulties about phrasing when we were writing the review but we helped each other and we conveyed our opinions more efficiently thanks to this collaboration. After we worked on this task we found out using wiki in the classroom is quite beneficial so I recommend this alternative method to all teachers not only to language teachers. By using it students can share their knowledge, experiments, comments or recommendations about anything in an entertaining way.

Here is our review for "Mad Max: Fury Road". Let's glance at that action film all together. I hope you  decide to watch it and after that I hope you enjoy at least as much as we do. 

Have a good time!

The Mysterious Scream

Hi everybody! Here is my first podcast. Firstly this post is appropriate for all ages. You can listen the podcast and I hope it will be useful for you. My partner is Leyla SAV in this job. We had some difficulties while we were creating this podcast because of some technological problems about uploading the voice record to our blogs. Apart from that, we had really fun while we were preparing for this post. In my opinion podcasts are certainly useful tools in edutaining so I strongly recommend to all teachers to use them in order to make their lessons more efficient and entertaining.





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Welcome My Fellow Travellers!

Hello and welcome to my page dear “Learning Volunteer”!  Although the goal of this page is the same with other English teaching based blogs, its method will be totally different. Because when I share new posts I will never be only a teacher but also a learner as in real life. In other words, I will just be the driver for the journey on the way of learning English and we will explore all together. Come and join me on this entertaining journey! By this way let me edutain you who is a learning volunteer as a learning volunteer!