Barry Fun English

Hi! Today I'll give you some information about one of the sites I like most. You can find the site by clicking on this link : http://www.barryfunenglish.com/

As you see in the picture, the site has a colourful background which can easily draw the attention of students. The site mostly focuses on teaching through fun games, exercises, presentations and using basic grammar rules so we can say that the target audience can be everybody who is at the beginner to intermediate level. You should create an account for reaching the documents but it is required to have a premium membership to have full access to the exercises, actually there is no clear information about the owner of the site except from an email address, since it is an open resource you can upload your own products to the site.
If you want to know more about the site, you can contact with the creator of this site  barry@barryfunenglish.com

Barry Fun English  offers you lots of games, presentations, flashcards and also you can benefit from the tools which is very useful for time management in the class. 
Let's make a closer look to each of them.

Tools

If you use games in your lessons, you'll really like these tools. These tools help you shorten the time you spend for making groups. Once you enter the list of the students, you can use random student selector for making groups, or you can also you this tool when you ask a question since you don't have to choose between the ones who raise their hands, they all have to be fully attended to the class because no one knows who will be chosen.





You can also use dart board selection but you can hit the same target with the same colour so it may take more time, when something happens like this. You can use stopwatch and score board while doing classroom discussions which will make students more eager to speak and express their thoughts or comment on the given topic.  

There is another interesting tool called English name maker which gives students new names and make them feel less inhibited since their performance is really that of different person with a new name. Students learn through trial and error but children can criticize each other mercilessly and this may pave the way for a severe discouragement for the students make mistakes. However, assuming a new identity enhances students' feeling of security and allows them to be more open. 



Games






As for the games, there are lots of games in this site and everyday you can find new amazing games. I just tried one of them to show you an example. Most of us already know about the hangman game and in this site, this game designed as a way of teaching students past forms, past participles or other tense related words like 'will be going', 'was playing' etc. and also it is a good way to learn syllables.

Also you can choose the difficulty level which gives you the chance of seeing in which words or which subjects your students have some difficulties.











Flashcards

 There are numerous flashcards in this site. Flashcards are of course one of the best way to teach students the basic words but this site provides you a lot of flashcards about any subject you can think about and also there are lots of colourful pictures that can draw the attention of students.

Mainly there are four categories and for each category, there are also subcategories as you see in the picture. You can also print these flashcards and hang them in your classroom or download the pdf files for using them in your presentations.






Presentations

 There are a lot of short presentations that you can use for colouring your lessons. As you can see in the pictures, the presentations are prepared with funny pictures so that you can create a positive climate while teaching  and also you can support these presentations with the games in the site. Hangman can also be useful with the vocabularies. You can find other subjects in the part I draw with a red pen.

Worksheets

Worksheets are accepted as one of the best way to do exercises and revised the covered subject. Barry Fun English also provides you a lot of worksheets and they are all ready to print for classroom use. You can see the examples below.

As for my own thoughts about the site, I think there are lots of useful tools, worksheets, games etc. that I'll definitely use in my own lessons. Students really like colourful and funny things so in terms of these factors this site can be a rich resource for teaching in elementary classes and since they are all ready to print and download, it is really easy to access all these documents. Another good thing about the site is you can upload your own products to the site after signing up. However, I noticed that there are no video or audio lessons and also reading parts are pretty limited, this site mostly focuses on the exercising part Another thing that I hate most is that it is required to be a premium member to have an access for most of the games and worksheets, but still there are lots of things you can benefit from for your teaching in this site. 


I hope you enjoy while using this site!