Practice Vocabulary While Feeding the Hungry
While I was at the PCRO TEFL Conference in Sinaia last week about integrating exciting Web 2.0 sites into TEFL lessons. I intend to post them and those materials in a future post.
But I really wish I had known about this.
Answer the question on the left correctly and the United Nations will donate ten grains of rice to the world's hungry. You can practice your English vocabulary, but you can also practice other languages, science, math, or increase the difficulty if you get bored.
This isn't just the UN asking people to do something stupid or else they'll let people starve. The money for the rice is actually generated by advertisements on the site. They're raising revenue, not allocating it. Ten grains of rice isn't a lot, but Google is a multi-billion dollar company and they make only a fraction of a penny on every Google ad you see.
As a Web designer, I am surprised they didn't place the ads higher on the page. I can't even see it on my tiny iBook. Don't anyone tell the advertisers!
Check it out here: http://freerice.com/