Hao to Learn

Do you use Tiktok in your spare time? As for me, I am a little bit addicted to it (I really don't want 😥). Every time when I didn't feel like studying, I spent a lot time on it. I think the popularity of Tiktok is partly because its short video form which takes up your time bit by bit and without noticing it.  To be fair, it is a good way of communicating and spreading information in short video form.  It would also be great to use that in teaching and the introduction of 🔗'Flipgrid' , therefore, would be necessary.  Flipgrid Flipgrid is a video discussion tool quite like no other as it's designed with the might of Microsoft to work specifically for teachers and students in a digital classroom.  The idea behind this education tool is to use video to create an open platform of discussion and learning that doesn't require a physical classroom to get everyone involved. That makes Flipgrid an ideal remote learning tool as well as a powerful homework based applicat...

English Varieties Have you ever been curious about the accents of people speaking English? When I was a child, I was given the concept of British English and American English, yet I was not clear about it at all. When I grew older, I found that people may pronounce a word in different ways and they are all correct.  After knowing the varieties of Englishes in TESOL education, I realised that it is important to accept all the varieties in this global era and know several commonly seen ones.  Pronunciation of Vocabulary Vocabulary is the base of Enlgish learning and mastering the pronunciation of words will help to build a solid foundation as well. However, in China, most of the English teachers are not native spearkers and what is more annoying is that even with dictionaries, there might be differences between the phonetic alphabet given in dictionary and the pronuciation of people actually speak in real life. For example, the word 'identify', in American English, people usuall...