15 Awesome Google Tools

There are several tools that might work really well in an ESL class. Google News Timeline is a great source of news if a teacher wanted to start a discussion about current events. Quotes from politicians where you can read quotes about the same topic side by side, again a great way to start a discussion, prepare an opinion speech or begin a debate. Google Moderator might be fun to use. It's an open forum for asking questions or gathering opinions. Students might be able to use this as a tool to become acquainted with social networking without the necessity of taking too much time. City tours again might be used as the basis of a writing assignment. Tour a city and write about it. There is also Google Indexing to find political speeches. This might be used as a way of studying how the language is used to convince people of a particular point of view.