Learning Chocolate

What is it about?

This is a useful website which may help the learners remember vocabulary in a convenient and efficient way. There are lots of pictures and sounds coming with the vocabulary. What’s more, a variety of games are provided to make learning vocabulary fun. You just need to select the category and press the button of each vocabulary below the picture and you can listen to the pronunciation of each word clearly. After being familiar with the sounds and vocabulary, you can try to games.

Why is the content good for language learning?

1. Sound and pictures help linking the words to the meaning

2. Learners can use this website to practice again and again and it helps them enhance their listening and pronunciation abilities.


3. Learning vocabulary is lot of fun because of its interactive function.


4. Games are attractive and motivating. 

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

1. Have the learners work individually and select a category of vocabulary the teacher would like them to learn.


2. Encourage the learners to listen carefully and try to remember the vocabulary.

3. Encourage the learners to speak out the words and imitate the pronunciation of these words.  


4. Ask the learners to look up the words they are unfamiliar on the dictionary, and later they can discuss them with each other.

5. After they are familiar with the vocabulary, the instructor may let the learners play the game on the website.

Limitations

1. Some levels of vocabulary in each category are too difficult.

2. Vocabulary should be learned in sentences to show how they are used.