What is it and how does it work?
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This application can be used by children between 3 and 10 years old, and even older kids or adults who needs to develop their English knowledge, and introduces the children to English words, meanings, speech and spelling. The application is divided into "lessons", and every lesson is helping the child to get an elementary vocabulary and uses the words in different situations to make the memorization easier.
There are both male and female voices with both English and American accent to let the user listen to the variation between the pronunciations. The child gets to use its listening skills, reading comprehension and its own voice to get through the different lessons.
There are both male and female voices with both English and American accent to let the user listen to the variation between the pronunciations. The child gets to use its listening skills, reading comprehension and its own voice to get through the different lessons.
The games in Fun
English are divided into these following lessons:
- Colors - including the verb "to be"
- Numbers - including spelling exercises
- Animals - including singular and plural
- Fruits - including "likes/doesn't like"
- Parts of the body - including "have/has"
- Clothes - including "he/she is wearing"
- Vehicles - introduction of adjectives
Only the color lesson is included in the free version
of Fun English, the other games cost about 15 SEK each. Every lesson includes a number of games, spelling or memory for example. Some of the games is getting harder and harder to finish, just to keep up the motivation to keep going. And in some of the games the user gets to catch points or finish the game on time. When you've finished a game, the time or points are saved in a high-score-list. If the children aren't about to compete to each other, there's also a possibility to delete the saved time/points from the list.
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How can it be used by teachers?
The teacher is deciding which games to download. Before letting the students use the games, it's important that the teacher knows how to play and which games that are included in every lesson. It's also important that the activities are connected to the syllabus and that the teacher knows what the students are about to learn from these games.
The games in this application are, among other things, helping the students to develop their ability to understand and to read the content in spoken English and in different kinds of texts.
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How can it be used by students?
The students can use the application one and one or in small groups. By using it the children get to develop their skills in reading, listening and speaking, and also get to challenge their reading comprehension and logical thinking. If the students are about to use the application in small groups of two or three, they also get to develop their cooperative skills.
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Enjoy this playful application!
Cecilia Brötte
Interesting reading! I believe it is a good thing that it is teachers who have created the application when they have experience of teaching and they know what suits children and how they learn. They also know what children will need to learn and in what order (hopefully). I liked the fact that the game had speaking exercises when it is not as common from my own experience. I also liked that the game had different voices and accents. When the game contains different levels of difficulty its suits a bibber range of children and they can work with the application for a longer period of time.
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Lina Hallin