Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Vocabulary Grabber

As an English tutor, it's sometimes difficult to juggle between preparing for a class and my day job so I rely on many, many online resources to generate instantaneous materials. I love flash cards and quizzes but I don't have the time to make either of them. Here's a few links to flash card/quiz resources that may be helpful to you.

Vocabulary Grabber
Copy any text from any reading material you plan to use and paste it into this lovely vocabulary grabber. It grabs all the words in your text based on frequency and difficulty. And it gives you the option of choosing to list only the top 10 words (most used? most difficult?) or you could scan through the list and choose which words you'd want to help your students with. Or just choose everything.

Otherwise, vocabulary.com is a great place to look for word lists that you think your students should know.

Exam English
I was recently required to sit for TOEIC. An English test for listening and reading that most people in Japan would have to sit for. Especially when applying for a job. They also have a speaking and writing test but that costs almost twice the fee it costs for the listening and reading test. I'm not even sure if I should consider taking that.

I digress.

This website has quizzes for major English proficiency tests. Have fun using it. They have a level check too, which should be fairly accurate.

English Grammar
English Grammar is a grammar guide with grammar rules and online exercises. Perfect for reviewing your language ability.

Edufind English Grammar Guide
More English grammar guide! Always good to have more than one reference point for accuracy.


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1 comment:

Online Japanese Course said...

Such an informative post, it is really helpful solution to grab meanings of new words.