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ACAPELA.TV Language Level: ALL LEVELS. Age Group: all levels. Type of skill: listening.Type of activity: creating videos with avatars, including gesters, motions, etc.Type of resource: teachers'' resource. Excellent website for TEACHERS to create movies for students!!!!

XTRANORMAL - CREATING VIDEOS WITH AVATARSLanguage Level: elementary to pre-intermediate students. Age Group: all levels.Type of skill: listening.Type of activity: creating videos with avatars, including gesters, motions, etc.Type of resource: teachers'' resource. Excellent website for TEACHERS to create movies for students!!!!

FREE LONGMAN DICTIONARY ONLINE Language Level: All levels. But pre-Intermediate levels onwards recommended since there are no pictures, and sometimes no exmaples included in the meanings of the words. Age Group: Adolescents and adults. Type of skill: reading. Type of activity: The online version of the dictionary contains over 207,000 words, phrases, and meanings including 7,000 references to people, places, events and organizations, such as Madonna, Milwaukee, and Manchester United. You get an instant response! Type of resource: students' resource. works fast and gives you all the possible answers for the word you've typed. Dictionary for pre-intermediate to higher levels' students. It sometimes shows pictures of the words but no phonetic symbols. It often displays examples of how to use the word in a context.

VAO NEWS Language Level: pre-intermediate to advanced students. Age Group: adolescents and adults. Type of skill: listening and reading. Type of activity: articles read by American native speaker and new words (voc) highlighted. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. TEACHING ADULTS - IN COMPANIES mainly! Actitivities divided into levels. Lesson Plans for teachers as well (pdf files for students) Different topics: Economics, Science and technology, etc. I LOVE IT!!! :)

LINGUALNET Language Level: all levels. Age Group: all ages. Type of skill: listening (videos, scenes) and reading (scripts) Type of activity: Short videos with their scripts below them (not EVERY video) and sometimes even have some extra activities to check comprehension.  Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. VIDEOS! CELEBRITY, DOCUMENTARY, DRAMA and ANIMATION are the ones I prefer the most and I find most interesting for my students. 

Free online resources for teachers and students. There are articles, short stories, crosswords, grammar explanations, and much more. For all levels and ages.

CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH ONLINE - PHONETIC FOCUS. Language Level: all levels as regards language (pre-intermediate onwards are suggested) but the students should have some basic knowledge of phonetic's symbols in order to do the activities.Good practice as well for Lab I's students!!! Age Group: Children (over 10), adolescents and adults. Type of skill: listening (Interactive Phonics activities), reading and speaking. Type of activity: games: phonetic games designed in order for the student to improve his/her pronunciation and knowledge of phonetics. Games and fun activities. Type of resource: students' resource. Very visual activities. Excellent website for students to practise sounds by playing games related to Phonetics.

This web page is full of interesting material. There is a section to choose the level you want to teach and then, the teacher can choose some interesting (pre-designed) board games or songs (with its respective worksheets) to download. FAST DOWNLOAD!

Great resources for teachers. all levels and skills. I found useful scripts to work in the drama lesson.

This web page provides students with interesting grammar and vocabulary activities as well as explanations. The best section of all may be the games' section where students can play hangman, find the pair and find the word.

SKYPE - FREE CHAT. Language Level: all levels. Age Group: Adolescents and adults. Children only with an adult's supervision recommended for secutiry reasons. Type of skill: mostly speaking, reading and writing by sending documents and writing via chat Type of activity: the students only need to create a SKYPE ACCOUNT and then they choose from the posts in the home page who they want to talk to. Type of resource: students' resource. TANDEM LEARNING. A good way to practise your speaking skills in an interactive environment! Moreover, this activity can enhance the student's will to know more about other cultures, especially English speaking ones.

CONVERSATION EXCHANGE - FREE! Language Level: all levels. Age Group: Adolescents and adults. Children only with an adult's supervision recommended for secutiry reasons. Type of skill: speaking, listening (face to face), writing and reading (pen pal). Type of activity: the students only need to create a SKYPE ACCOUNT, MESSENGER HOTMAIL, YAHOO MESSENGER, etc.. and then they find a language partner to practise the language with conversation. Type of resource: students' resource. It's a FREE website. Students will be able to practise at home by having a pen-pal, face to face conversation (only if a native lives close to their home) and text and voice chat (the shy students who do not want to show themselves). Tandem learning is this method for learning languages and adults have the possibility to do it unless children are supervised by adults!!! Mind you!

You won't find all terms in any dictionary. Urban dictionary stores the latest coined terms. Adolescents love listening to music and checking new words.

Good stuff!