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Speaking and listening exercises and activites for ESL and TEFL. Easily create exercises online and give individualized attention. An online portal that allows ESL/EFL teachers to create interactive speaking and listening exercises for students to complete and submit remotely. Using peripheral or embedded laptop microphones, students record themselves speaking the exercises you provide, and their results are saved on the site for you to listen to and grade. Teachers have the opportunity record "solutions" to the exercise in their own voices, and a feature of the site allows you to provide personalized feedback to each student on each exercise.

Voki is a FREE service that lets you create customized speaking characters. Students can use avatars to use in their dialogues. They can record their voice or type in the text in a range of languages and the avatar will speak. This site can assist students with pronunciation although the vice is computerized.

Free printable worksheets and lesson plans for every busy teacher. Find printable worksheets on any topic: vocabulary, grammar, listening, reading, writing and speaking! As teachers we are really busy so these worksheets can help us when time is short. is an extensive repository of affordable e-books, downloadable classroom posters, informative education articles for ESL/EFL teachers and over 10,000 free printable worksheets in dozens of categories. You can find innovative methods for coaching grammar and punctuation, new teaching ideas, timely lessons specific to the season and more. Free online tools at BusyTeacher include applications for creating word search, jumble and letter tile puzzles as well as a daily warmer that you can slip into your curriculum or use as inspiration for fun exercises of your own.

Useful for having students record oral presentations to be reviewed / assessed

many ideas for authentic, engaging activities in The SLA classroom (not much new, but a good checklist / reminder for when one gets stuck :-)

A list of apps (including apps for ipad, chromebooks, android, laptops) for audio recording and editing. Useful for student projects involving audio - e.g. pronunciation or recorded speech.