1. Web 2.0 to strengthen listening and speaking in English,
María Eugenia López Hurtado
Dirección Académica
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

2. Awareness on strategies to deal with speaking and listening in EFL Diagnose.
Learning proposal form
Activities
Evidences
ICT workshop
ICT directory
INDEX

3. 1. Awareness on strategies to deal with speaking and listening in EFL Diagnose

4. LISTENING
Listen to American or English radio stations instead of a Colombian radio station.
Try to write down the lyrics of a song you don’t know by writing what you understand when it is done, compare the lyrics with the ones on Internet.
Download audiobooks and listen to them at least once a week. You can read the book while you are listening to it.
Awareness on strategies to deal with speaking and listening in an EFL Diagnose

5. LISTENING
Listen to music in English and watch TV shows everyday.
Follow the account of native English you tuber and watch all of his videos.
Watch twitcams or livestreams and interact by comments.
Learn how to do different things by videos in YouTube.
Awareness on strategies to deal with speaking and listening in EFL Diagnose

6. LISTENING
See movies in English without subtitles and turn the language of your TV to English when it is possible.
Take listening tests online.
Take English lessons by watching videos online.
Awareness on strategies to deal with speaking and listening in EFL Diagnose

7. SPEAKING
Talk to your peers in English outside the classroom.
Talk to a native an English native speaker using skype.
Prepare a monologue of any topic and record it. By this you can be able to find your main problems.
Read out loud English books when you’re on your own.
Repeat after listening unknown words. For this, you can use google translator, word reference or another website which pronunciation of words is available. The idea is to replay the word until you get it.
Awareness on strategies to deal with speaking and listening in EFL Diagnose

8. SPEAKING
Attend English clubs or reunions with native speakers.
Play karaoke for improving your pronunciation and get more fluency.
Focus on improving the sounds that are more difficult for you.
Correct yourself when pronouncing something in a wrong way.
Sing along trying to imitate the pronunciation of the singer.
Awareness on strategies to deal with speaking and listening in EFL Diagnose

9. Learning proposal form
Date: From ______________________ to March ____________________________________
MY OBJECTIVES FOR THIS WEEK ARE
MY PLAN OF WORK IS
REVISION OF MY WORK
EASY:
DIFFICULT:
WHAT I LEARNT:
WHAT I NEED TO IMPROVE:
Learning proposal form

10. Evidences Activity Purpose Source ICT tool Recite some poems
Stress, intonation and rhythm
Poem: Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.
Audio file
Sing a song
Pronunciation and rhythm
Bound to you by Cristina Aguilera
KARAOKE
Evidences

11. Voicethread https://voicethread.com/products/highered/
Ss have to talk about their daily routine.
Also, they have to answer the following questions with this title: Do you care about your privacy on the web?
a. Do you think Internet is dangerous? Why? Why not?
b. Some think that Internet is making the world smaller by bring people together, to what extent do you agree that Internet is making it easier for people to communicate with one and other?
ACTIVITY
Voicethread

12. Voxopop http://www.voxopop.com/
Ss have to answer this question:  What are your greatest accomplishments?
ACTIVITY
Voxopop

13. Storybird https://storybird.com
Ss have to create a story using the images the website provides them with. After that, they have to present the story verbally to class.
ACTIVITY
Storybird

14. Screencast https://screencast-o-matic.com/
Ss have to create a tutorial of any website, They can explore a page for them to learn languages, but they are free to choose their own website.
It is very interesting to know the students by the use of this because most of them refer to their likes, such as websites in relation to music, sports or hobbies.  
ACTIVITY
Screencast

15. Podbean https://www.podbean.com/
Ss have to create a radio show about a free topic.
ACTIVITY
Podbean

16. Go animate https://goanimate.com/
Ss have to create a story making use of the different resources this website has, such as adding voice, background music, movement to their characters and change their setting.
ACTIVITY
Go animate

17. Your questions and comments are welcome
Thanks
Your questions and comments are welcome
María Eugenia López Hurtado
MA in Applied Linguistics to TEFL
Educational Multimedia Specialist
Research Group Director
(LAELETIC)