Several posts on GuruEAP feature sentence unjumbling tasks. Here you have an opportunity to enter your own sentences to unjumble.
Teachers can also print activities for use in class! Continue reading
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Cloze your books!
An app that converts any text into a total cloze – a text in which all the letters have been blanked out – which you can then reconstruct, word by word!
Enjoy! Continue reading
Text reconstruction with ReText
This was going to be a suite of apps, with a fancy title, bundled together. But a lot of this stuff is really useless as stand-alone apps – they have to be integrated within a post to have any pedagogical value. And so they’re here, available via menus, but I don’t – at the moment – feel they deserve to be packaged and marketed in any way.
If anyone wants to use these as WordPress shortcodes, you’re welcome – please either email me or comment below this post.
The apps include:
- Cloze your books (Converts any uploaded text into a total cloze, which you can then attempt to reconstruct online, one word at a time).
- Sentence Repair Man (Shuffles words in sentences, which you can then attempt to reconstruct online, or print for classroom use).
- Mind the Gap (puts gaps at every Nth word in a text, with the option to print for classroom use).
- Linkin’ Text (Highilights 4 types of (spoken) link between words in a text).
- AWLizer (Highlights words from the Academic Word List in a text).
Enjoy!
How ‘academic’ is your vocabulary?
Disclaimer: I didn’t create the Academic Word List. That distinction goes to a lady called Averil Coxhead. And I know there are other sites offering academic word highlighting, but I need my own app because I’m planning to integrate the AWL with other @guruEAP posts and pages in the near future.
So, you wanna know how ‘academic’ your vocab is?
Type or paste some text into the field below, then click ‘Check for academic words!’ Continue reading
Linkin’ Text – A pronunciation app
Note! I’m still working on the algorithm and I’d very much appreciate your feedback on how it’s working so far!
Indonesian students are used to separating – when they speak Indonesian – every single syllable, and therefore every single word, so that the boundaries between words are always easy to identify. Unfortunately, native English speakers try where possible to join words together in speech, making the boundaries between words less obvious.
Indonesians are aware that they can still communicate well in English without linking words the way English native speakers do. However, forcing yourself to link words has at least two important advantages:
- Identifying word boundaries (when listening) becomes much easier if you are able to produce – in speaking – word boundaries!
- Linking – or connecting – words gets you a higher score for pronunciation in IELTS Speaking!
Linkin’ text highlights 4 link types:
- Red shows that a sound has been moved.
- Blue shows that a sound has been added.
- Green shows that a sound has been changed.
- Faded shows that a sound has been omitted.