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This interesting web page gives you the possibility of choosing the dictionary you want to use (British English, American English, Business English, Learner's, Essential British English and Essential American English) and type the word in a search engine. The word you want will appear with both its American and British pronunciation as well as the definition with possible collocations and examples.

Amazing online dictionary even recommended by translators! Find translations from and into different languages, English definitions and English synonyms. Also very interesting and useful forums.

USBORNE ENGLISH LEARNERS' EDITIONS Language Level: elementary to upper-Intermediate level students. Age Group: CHILDREN Type of skill: listening (audio in the website) and reading (books) Type of activity: BOOKS READ ENTIRELY. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. WORSHEETS FOR STUDENTS ABOUT THE BOOKS, AND STORIES. BOOKS AVAILABLE AT KEL! NOT VERY EXPENSIVE BOOKS!

Creative, funny, numerous and free flashcards!! Divided into categories and in different sizes, these flashcards can be very useful for teachers of English! In addition to this, with the pictures from the flashcards, you can create games such as mazes, dice or bingos. You can also use them to make worksheets depending on what you want to practise (even phonetics!). Certificates to prize students' achievements also available!

Fantastic website where, after signing in for free, you can download from books to CDRoms without paying! You can download material for teaching ESL, EFL or English in a country where it's the native language. If you want to buy the material, the website also provides the link to amazon to do so.

Medical, legal, financial, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and many other dictionaries, acronyms, idioms, games, articles and abbreviations all in one!

English teaching resources and plans. Strategies, discipline.

Site of the publishing house, full of free resources for each of their books + prepared lessons for differentl ages and levels

GREAT WEB PAGE! In it you can find short conversations, interviews and descriptions as well as recordings to practice pronunciation. The web page is for free and it's not only interesting, but also fast (downloading doesn´t take more that a couple of seconds) and you also have the posibility of listening to recordings online. Moreover, it offers you the possibility to download worksheets so as to work with your students.

Good stuff!

Short stories and tales for children to teach values. Audiostories in English and Spanish. Excellent resource for teachers!

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.

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.

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.

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!!! :)

Drama warm ups and improvisations that can be used by english teachers in the classroom. Group age: children, teens and adults. Skills: Listening and Reading. Resource for teachers

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

Here there are lots of podcasts for learning/teaching communicativa functions. Some resources you'll have to pay, but there are also many which are free. The best thing is how they are organized: introduction, dialogue, exploded dialogue. I always use them with my adult learners, they love them.

Look for someone to teach and to learn from new languages. Great for conversation but, again, a way to get immersed in the English culture.

This is a site to refer to when there are doubts about gramamr or writing. It is serious and reliable.