http://www.toolsforeducators.com/crossword/
The crossword maker
This site is a very good way to improve your pupils vocabulary.It is very easy for you, as a teacher, to create such crossword. You can choose between several topics, for example family, classroom or countries. After you have decided for one of those you get to another page on which you can choose words that belong to the topic chosen. You can select images for this word, type in an explanation for it and in the end fill in the answer you expect. The picture you can see on the left is a crossword concerning the topic family. After you have made a crossword you can print it out and bring it to the classroom. It is a very good idea to use these crosswords in lower classes to improve the vocabulary of your pupils. For pupils it is a playful way of learning vocabularies and for teachers it is a nice way to check whether your pupils have learned the new vocabularies or not.The website is easy structured, so that you can easily find out what to do and how to create a crossword. You do not have to sign in and it is free. After you have created a crossword you get the crossword and also the solution of it.I can just recommend to use this page to improve your pupils vocabulary.
Furthermore, the pupils will like this way of learning vocabularies, because there are some nice pictures that shall help to find the right words. Because of the playful way of learning they do not get the impression that vocabulary learning does not make fun.
| crossword_family.pdf |
The pdf file above is the a crossword concerning family which I created. It is most suitable for 5th grade and general for oupils that start learning english as a foreign language
The pdf file below is the same, but with the solutions given by the website.
The pdf file below is the same, but with the solutions given by the website.
| crossword_solutions.pdf |
