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This site contains hundreds of pre-recorded monologues and discussions on an enormous variety of topics, geared to English speakers at six distinct levels of skill from beginner to advanced. ELLLO recruits speakers from more than 60 countries, helping you introduce your students to a variety of different English accents, and some exercises contain comprehension games as learning aids. The lessons come in video as well as audio formats and can be sorted by topic, skill level or speaker's home country. This site provides students of English language with free listening, reading, and vocabulary practice.

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.

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.

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots and learn more about YAKiT Kids on the App Store. Download YAKiT Kids and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This enables students to create stories using real life objects as the speaker ie a cup, a tree. It is a bit of fun and allows.

Description The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store. Ideal for children's picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on. * The no. Students can create their own e-book using video, photos and sound and they can add in voice.By making it possible for students to record their own voices gives them a chance to play back what they have heard and, if necessary, re-record their work with corrections (self-editing). It is also different to standing in front of the classroom to present their work, which for some students is confronting.

Create a QR code with your own logo, colours and shapes. It not only looks better, but also leaves a lasting impression with your customers. Students can use QR codes to go on a treasure hunt to find information. They can be used to simulate going into a city (Ancient Rome, Paris) or a particular museum and the QR codes are linked to information about certain monuments, artifacts. Students can then complete worksheets about the monuments.

Description 30hands Mobile is a fun, innovative storytelling app that allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to easily create narrated stories or presentations based on photos, images, drawings or video clips using an iPad, iPhone or iPod. Different from other presentation apps, 30hands Mobile focuses on the power of storytelling and ITERATIVE CREATIVITY(TM). This can be used to create a narrated slide show using photos. Students can take their own photos and then add in an avatar to narrate in target language. Students can record their own voice. This would be good to use with photos from an excursion or a guest speaker.

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots and learn more about Decide Now! on the App Store. Download Decide Now! and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Essentially a spin the wheel game. Used as fun small group revision. For example, the teacher can create a wheel for noun revision and students need to give the correct definite article for that noun.

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.

calculate readability of any written text

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

software that allows creation of jeopardy like games (or who wants to be a millionaire?) Useful for revision quizzes, practice games, etc.

online dictionary that returns examples of texts containing the searched word, rather than just a definition. Actually a corpus more than a dictionary. Very useful to learn vocabulary in context and special clusters of words (idiomatic expressions, collocations)

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.

An example of how a grammar point can be explained effectively by using visual elements and humour

Krashen illustrates his theory of SLA

documentary on language acquisition - part 4, including Chomsky's interview

video interview with Ellen Bialystok on learning languages as adults and children

Tech (but accessible) article