The website can teleport you around the world and you can view every street, road, building, view sight in the world that available in the Google Map.
Value
- The website is funny and motivate students' engagement
- It offers a ranges of vivid pictures that built a virtual world where students can 'walk' in.
- The language is English
- By exploring the world, students can not only be exposed to the new vocabularies but also the culture of other countries
- For demonstration: teacher can demonstrate the view of a street or a place to provide the basic background of a relevant topic, including building, view sights or culture of a country. Good sources for warming-up task; students can select their favorite places or countries and demonstrate them to their peers with presentation.
- Improving describing skill: because all the things in the website is visual able, so students can explore the world and then describe their trips or a specific place to their peers.
- Gap-filling activity: one student describe the place and the other draw on the paper and then reflect his or her information.
- For brainstorming: lots of images available in the virtual world can help students to brainstorming their ideas via visual aids.
- Speed of net- connection is demanding.
- Time-consuming for students to find the destination. we need a 'search bar' to help students to find a specific place.
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