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the new crossword maker ! The crossword maker used to be pretty blah and hard to work with, but there are quite a few new features that really make it useful now. Same as before, you can choose from any category and make crosswords using MES English flashcard images. There is also a simple text onl...

Mesmark's site (check his profile) looks great by the way. I fear I will never be promoted unless I create such a thing myself, but does the world really need us all to get a personal site? Thanks and no, I definitely think there's no need for everyone to get out there and make a website. Just like...

I think Mesmark is on to something there ... lol, well I did try to get them all in there ... I guess my point was just that. Like, if the students, like, want to, like, immitate, like, some popular movie. Then let them (if they're 13 in this case.) But I will say these phrases generally sound real...

I would say anything which is potentially useful to the student, but which requires neither direct involvement by the teacher nor any speaking by the student. In the EFL school classroom, that would be considered a waste of the students' precious money. I agree that the lesson time shouldn't get ea...

I personally feel that woodcutter shouldn't of posted this. With all due respect, at the end of the day, what does it really matter? We're here to teach what's said 24/7, not say what should be taught. At this moment in time, whether a phrase is fairly unique or it's a nightmare, it's up to us to ge...

a true test for the individual? yes, quite difficult to make, but who would want to take that test. Aren't we all quite mediocre? A test to see if the students have learned the material you taught? Easy enough, just ask the questions. A test that gets you a bell curve and will included material not ...

Fun! :) I agree with woodcutter a bit here. Even though I make sites for students, MES-Games and Fun Fonix , a motivated student hardly needs my effort and a student that isn't motivated enough to study on their own time is only temporarily wowed by my effort. They quite quickly fizzle and turn away...

I've uploaded a new game, that's more of an actual game



There's also a full games page for cvc practice
www.funfonix.com/games/book1menu.php

Almost late but still a little time left ...

There's a free Easter worksheets page where you can make worksheets to supplement your Easter lessons.

I hope it helps.

There are now a couple online activities for students as well. http://www.funfonix.com/games/games1.gif Students can click and listen to the sounds or words and then choose the letter that starts the word, initial sound recognition activity. It has a quiz like format. http://www.funfonix.com/games/g...

I've added a maze maker to Tools for Educators.com ! The maze will travel through 6, 9, or 12 content squares. You can add images to the content quares or type in text. As the students do the maze they'll perform some language task associated with the content in the content squares! http://www.tools...

so, it's like scrabble with words instead of letters, right?

Fun Fonix Book 3 is done! long vowels with silent e ; long a, long i, long o, long u http://www.funfonix.com/book3/sound.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ http://www.funfonix.com/book3/build.gif http://www.funfonix.com/book3/games.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ http://www.funfonix.com/book3/read.gif Happy teaching!

Change the text hints! On the text only version of the word search maker , you can now write free text that will be entered below the puzzle instead of just the word that's in the puzzle. What does that mean? Well, it means that if you want the students to search for the word 'running', you can jus...

There are a lot of general grammar games here
www.mes-english.com/games.php

Many of those were designed specifically for junior high and high school students.