There are many ESL websites which offer useful resources to teachers. However, I have made necessary materials for my class by myself since I am the one who know my students' level of English proficiency, their weaknesses and strengthes as English learners. So I could my class animated with interesting games or informative handouts. However, it was time consuming and exhausing...especially when I am running out of ideas....Anyway, thanks to this course, I have searched several ESL websites and I choose one of them to review; it is the SLIDESHARE website.
The website has many kinds of ppt slides; it has not only ESL resources, but also ppt slides about general fields such as business. So, if you want to find a specific topic-related ppt slide, you have to type a search term like "English grammar relative pronoun". Then, many grammar-related ppt slide including relative clauses will pop on your screen. It is not guaranteed that all these slides are related to the grammatical point that you are looking for. You have to click every single slide and go over to evaluate the appropriateness for your own class.
Simply speaking, you might generally find what you want, but you cannot find what you want exactly. For example, although I type " English grammar relative pronoun" or " English grammar tense", I couldn't find the one that I like. I thought that I might have to download it and revise it as I want. What is worse, most slides didn't have animation functions, and they just include text slides, which can make students bored. When too much input is exposed to students at the same time on the screen, students might be overwhelmed or bored. Therefore it's important to present necessary information sentence by sentence or little by little on the screen, so that students do not lose their concentration.
Overall, whether slideshare website is useful or not depends on how you use it. Definitely it has many ppt slides related to many fields, and if you type a search term that you want to find specifically, you might find some of them. However, the appropriateness of the information cannot be guaranteed. I wouldn't say that I am really satisfied with the website, but I can still use it. I might find some useful slides , and I can revise it as I want. http://www.slideshare.net
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