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Postcrossing is a website that allows you to send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person in the world. Here's a blog entry that explains how a teacher used this site to develop an interesting school project

A real discovery of a site! It includes entries with short texts (with a recording too) about a subject with some highlighted vocabulary. Texts can be used as a warmer in class or as self-study exercises.

These days there are lots of online resources to help you learn English at home for free. Although the best resource is always a good teacher, you might only see your teacher a few hours a week. Th...

Wonderful tool that helps with reading comprehension and vocabulary development by simplifying English to a lower reading level. It lets you reword a sentence or reword a paragraph. It will simplify English by reducing text complexity. It's a dictionary alternative that will improve comprehension and teach vocabulary. It's an important part of reading instruction and vocabulary instruction for ESL students, people with reading disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve reading skill.

Wordle nubes de palabras Aplicación en liña que serve para xerar nubes de palabras a partir dun texto que elixamos. Non require rexistro previo. A aplicación conta as palabras do texto e segundo o número de veces que se repitan lles da un tamaño máis o menos grande. Pódense configurar as cores, a disposición, o número de palabras, etc. O resultado final é visualmente moi atractivo. A nube pódese embedir no noso blog, páxina web, etc.

A site for kids who are learning English as a foreign or second language. Young ESL students will find here lots of online activities and hundreds of printable worksheets that can help them with their English. This is also a resource site for parents and teachers of young ESL learners. We offer tons of free, ready-to-print teaching materials including flashcards, quizzes, games, song lyrics as well as a big collection of useful links to other ESL/EFL websites.

Voxopop is a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. Create a talkgroup for your language class today!

Wibbitz is a text-to-video platform that can automatically turn any text-based article, post or feed into a short video. Using Wibbitz almost any article, post or feed on the web can be instantly turned into a short video clip

How do you use ICT to practice speaking? Easy - a student just goes to this webpage and with one click he/she can record himself (audio & video!) speaking. With a second click, they send the teacher a video-email. Amazing, right? Just think of the possibilities...

List of conversation questions organized by topic. I sometimes choose a few to copy onto cards and then give a stack of cards to a group of 4-5 students for discussion.

Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom on different topics and levels

This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Even though the primary focus is for ESL, native English speakers may also find some interesting things on this site. This site is non-commercial and has no advertising. TESL/TEFL teachers may want to recommend this site to their students.

The purpose of this website is 3-fold: Lookup pronunciation of a name. Submit pronuncation of a name so that others can pronounce it correctly. Request pronunciation of a name that you don't know and would like to find out.

Young children click and drag fun shapes and objects to create a face. Great for preschool, kindergarten, and fun for primary grades!

Send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person in the world

TedEd is a collection of original animated videos lessons. You can choose by subject and view the video in class or assign it as homework. Every video is accompanied by a lesson with multiple choice questions that check your general comprehension. If your answers are wrong, you can always check with the video hint. There is also a Think section with questions that further explore the topic. For teachers, one of the most powerful features is the Customize your Lesson area, where you can customize the lesson by editing the title, giving your own instructions, selecting or deselecting multiple choice questions…etc.

Stephen, Ashlie and Rob are back! In this episode Stephen has a new job; he's playing Shakespeare. Ashlie learns more about the greatest English playwright, while Stephen tries to find out what his part is. Amandeep visits London's TheatreLand to go behind the scenes at a famous musical.

A funny video including a rap song to consolidate irregular past participles.

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save. Imagine the possibilities...

Cursos do CAFI en aberto para fomentar a autoformación (sen dereito a certificación)

This webpage allows you to transfer files of up to 2GB to another person. It's very simple to use - just upload the files and write the e-mail of the person you'd like to send them to. The files self-destruct after a two-week period, so they won't be floating around in a dropbox forever. Also, if security's an issue, you can encrypt the files using Androsa File Protector, and you can still send the files easily. I think this can be very useful for coordinations and exam work.