Task 2

The use of Blogs in the ELT

The activity that I chose for this task is a small game for learning numbers in english from a web page for young learns. The main aim of this game is to practice using numbers in english and present or introduce them for any students who do not know them. The idea is that this activity will increase familiarity and give practice in listening to how numbers sound. Students can see all the numbers that will be used in the game and they can click to hear them spoken. The game consist in that students have to take control of a small monster and they have to help him survive by pointing and clicking to make jump him on blocks. Three blocks are shown and each has a number displayed in the middle. The audio of one of these numbers is then played and they have to move the monster to the matching block. If they pick the correct block, then the monster survives, but if they choose badly, then the monster falls off the bottom of the screen and the game is over.

I selected this activity because it is a good strategy to learn or practice numbers in english in an enjoyable way. The game allows students to work on their listening and reading skills and also they can get used to how use technology for educative purposes. This game could be beneficial in terms of acquiring the content and it is a good strategy to keep the attention of students, specially the audiovisual ones. If I had the opportunity to work with younger learners in my practice this semester, I would definitely implement this game to one of the classes since children are very into games nowadays. This could be a good activity to implement in the body or the closing part of a lesson.