An interesting website of vocabulary learning

What is this?

This is a pictorial vocabulary learning website which contains vivid pictures, word spelling, pronunciation, parts of speech, translation and small quiz, etc. Besides, the vocabularies are classified into different groups based on daily use topics which covers almost every aspect of our life.  All these interesting form and content are accessable with one click.

Why is the content good for language learning? 

• Fairly detailed and overall classification provides students a large range of vocabularies to learn.

• Involving vivid pictures and sound files is good for students to combine an object with its English spelling and pronunciation.
• Interesting pictures and various colors will stimulate students' (especially young learners) visual sence and increase their desire to learn.

• Words can be saved to account, which enables students to make a word list to review and strengthen memory.

• Additional quizz model enables students to test themself and enhance their autonomy.

  

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

1. Teacher firstly sets a topic for students, for example 'The face'.Then asks students to work in pairs.
2. Students will be firstly asked to move the cursor on the part that they've already known how to speak it in English (eg. eyes, nose, mouth, ears) and check whether their spelling and pronuciation is correct by moving the cursor on those pictures.
3. Then move to the parts that they are not familiar (eg. nostril, ear lobe, temple)and listen to its pronuciation and speak it. Though students can understand the meaning of those words with the help of pictures, if necessary, teacher will explain their usage in a precise way.(eg. expressions)
4. Some interesting relevant classroom activities, like, students work in pair and one of them point a part of his/her face, the other one speaks its name in English.  Or one of them speak a word, the other one need to move that part on his/her face, that's maybe much funny.

Limitation

• Might be only suitable for young learners or beginners.
• Involved in some vocabularies that rarely be used in real-life.
• Not many relevant activities, such as sysmatically listening, speaking, reading or writing task be followed.
• Only some nouns vocabularies which describe one object are avaliable.
• Web design and structure is simple and a little bit not attractive.