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[Fishead soup]

Which one do you like better.

Waygook Highlights include: Mario
: Aliens and Robots.
: Bomb game


EFL Classroom Highlights include
: Baam
: Fling the teacher
: Karafuns last man standing
: Text it
: What's the Wordle?
: Pass the paper.

[yfb]

Waygook by far for public school, it has lesson plans sorted by each unit in the book. By comparison EFLClassroom is a horribly unorganized mess with the main page far too cluttered.

[Fishead soup]

[creeper1]

I think waygook is the mushrooming monster in efl websites. It's not just a lesson planning and ppt game website but also a place (like here) where morons can bitch and moan about everything under the sun.

I like the first aspect of the website but despise the second one even though more often than not I end up reading the compositions of these fools.

I do think that there is some original work on waygook but there is also a lot that originated on EFLclassroom that found it's way there.

EFL classroom was good for a bit but now it's dying and is more or less a one man show.

[crsandus]

I could never navigate EFL Classroom very well. I know that if I had spent more time with it, I would have had more success but I'm a simple guy. If a website isn't intuitive, I leave it quickly.

I've used Waygook a multitude of times already (I work at a PS) but I'm not a big fan of the download system. Maybe they should think about putting their most popular files on bittorrent?

[Smee]

The download system is in place to make sure everyone contributes in some way or other, rather than a handful of teachers sharing lessons and thousands of other people taking them. The pros and cons of it have been debated on the site. We had tried donation drives in the past but, surprise, few people donated. Now, with both the 5-post minimum and the annual donation, it keeps the site going and makes it more fair. Just means we have to deal with all the trolls, the losers, the endless "thanks~!^^" from Korean teaches, and everything else people coming out of the woodwork are doing to hit their 5 posts.

[winterfall]

Neither, there's pros and cons to both. In terms of lesson planning

Waygook is great if your a fresh green teacher or need ideas. But just ripping lessons and running with it is a horrible, horrible idea. None of those lessons follow any clear pedagogy. I really wonder the effectiveness of teaching 30 new vocabulary words in a very simple: I like, he like, he can, she can, it can context. You should never ever teach more than 15 (Already pushing it) maximum 20 new vocabulary words. They're never remember it. And it doesn't help the practicing and using the vocabulary part of the lesson is in a bone head grammar format. There's no clear relationship between the new words and what they're using them for except the sheer bombardment of colorful, flashing pictures.

EFL classroom is good but, it assumes a very high base line ability in the students. You'll need to make major adjustments to all of those lessons to be able to use them at mainstream schools.

[mellow-d]

EFL classroom has been extremely useful and Waygook has good templates for games but eslprintables.com is by far the best site I've found. You can type in any topic and download full powerpoints, games, worksheets and online exercises. It's helped me so much. It's an exchange so once you upload a few materials you've made and you get points, you can start downloading away. There are thousands of resources!

[hogwonguy1979]

best site is the one that gets bleeped out when you type in its name, where camels roam, hoju is king, and there is a certian racoon that has his den there, by far the best site