A colleague of mine found a cool site: www.freerice.com . It’s a multiple choice, adaptive vocabulary builder. For each correct answer, the site will donate 20 grains of rice to the World Food Programme.
The website is quite attractive — very easy on the eyes – the color scheme is various shades of green and the background is photos of rice plants. The vocab is on one side and a rice bowl is on the other. As you answer, the bowl fills with rice. If you play for long enough, you accumulate little piles of rice representing 100 and eventually 1000 grains of rice. There are 50 levels, but the site indicates that it is extremely difficult to get about 48. (I got to 41 while playing for a while this afternoon.) I wondered how low the lowest level actually is and was pleased to see that even our lowest level ESL students could benefit. I also like the fact that it’s all synonyms. I think students could easily make word maps or vocabulary notebooks using the site.
I’m putting the link in the sidebar for easy access. Try it!
Update: W00t — I’m at 43!
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