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Final Task- Events and Festivals-Lesson 6

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Hello everyone! In today’s lesson, I have shared a sample of writing about specific event. It may help you to understand how to write about a specific event, how to put main ideas by maintaining steps of giving information. Now, Take a look on the given sample below and try to write a paragraph on different events. You have to post your paragraph in comment session of this post, it will be easy for me to give feedback on yours writing. :) You can check the link below to explore about different writing genre and for fun with writing stories. Pahela Boishakh  ‘Pahela Boishakh’ is the first day of Bangla new year. The day is a public holiday. This day has a special significance for us as it forms a part of Bangalee culture and tradition. People from all walks of life, irrespective of their ethnic identity or religious beliefs, celebrate the day with traditional festivities. On this day, the whole of Bangladesh is in a festive mood. The day inspires people to start life...

EverWrite

                                                         A Review on- EverWrite Everwrite is an educational software where a learner can practice different grammatical items by correcting grammatical errors. It helps learners to improve grammatical skills by editing errors in different writing perspectives. The quality of writing can be improved more quickly by editing errors. It has four different sections-Home, Score, Help, Quit; each section comes with different elements and all these elements are very helpful to know about effective writing skill. In homepage there are six options; Editing exercises, Identifying rhetorical paragraph, working with transitions, Organize your thoughts, Recognizing your t...

Edmodo

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Review on Edmodo Edmodo is the leading social learning platform, an educational technology company which offers a communication, collaboration and practice platform to K-12 schools and teachers. Edmodo launched at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year by Nic Borg and Jeff O’Hara, two Chicago-area School Technology Administrators. It has over 65 million users. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content and manage communication with students, colleagues and specially with parents. The main goal of Edmodo is to introduce an innovative method to the teachers and students where they can stay connected outside the class. Basically , Edmodo  is a safe social networking site.  The site allows teachers to easily create class groups where teacher and the students can post messages, discussion questions, assignments, quizzes, polls and much more. To explore Edmodo features one need to open an account on Edmodo, it has different criteria to open an account like...

Actively Learn

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Review on Actively Learn Actively learn is an online learning tool. It comes with a library of thousands text and lessons. It gives a scope to interact within real time. Teacher can assign different texts or upload their own content. Student can respond to embedded questions, interact with a text by digitally highlighting and annotating. The main objective of this site is to build the best digital reading platform for students and reinvent the reading activities for deeply understanding. Their aim is to help students learn, think and build connections between texts and actively construct knowledge. Actively learn was founded by Dr. Deep Sran and Jay Goyal in 2012. The company took more than 15 years of work to improve the design, practice and experience of formal education. Actively Learn resources combine embedded content and scaffolds with the intention of supporting student learning and engagement. Texts feature embedded questions, discussion materials, and various rea...

VOA-Learning English

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Review on VOA Learning English Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S government funded international multimedia agency. It is the largest U.S international broadcaster site. It produces digital, TV and radio content in more than 40 languages which helps to affiliate this site around the world. In terms of English language learning, VOA multimedia site plays an important role. The different sources or news of this site motivates the EFL learners to learn English. The Learning English began as Special English, which Voice of America launched in 1959. Special English newscasts and features were a primary fixture of VOA’s international shortwave broadcasts for more than half a century. In 2014, it expanded to include more English teaching materials, and the service became known as Learning English. Learning English is VOA’s multimedia source of news and information for millions of English learners worldwide. All the input of this site maintained with a specific category or le...

Freerice

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Review on Freerice.com Freerice is an ad-supported website. It allows the learners to play and donate to charities by playing games. It includes various subjects like Math, English, Humanities, Chemistry, Language learning, Geography, Science. It also includes a scope for test preparation for SAT examination. This site offers some easy games which are very easy to understand and motivates learners into learning through charity. The ads one can see on Freerice come from their sponsors and it generates money to donate to the World Food Programme (WFP). They use it to save lives and change live by working for zero hunger world. When one allows Freerice to use cookies, it shows personalized ads which generate higher rates of donation. This site is not sitting on a pre-existing pile of rice or money that they can donate immediately, the funds are only generated when a banner ad is shown on screen. The main objective of this site is to provide education to everyone for free and to help...