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An Internet Theme Park for kids with interactive activities: cartoons, games, movies, stories, puzzles and music!

Read and hear interactive, narrated, animated stories by the Brothers Grimm! Children's literature and folklore classics, games, e-cards and colouring downloads.

ABCTEACH Language Level: elementary Age Group: CHILDREN (Primary level students - 1st to 6th forms) Type of skill: listening (Interactive Phonics activities), reading, writing and speaking. Type of activity: games: bingo, puzzles, etc....., activities for Interactive whiteboards, sheets to complete, subjects' activities (maths, history, etc), and more. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. Great resources for teachers. Very visual activities. My students in first grade a few years ago loved the activities I took to the classroom from this website.

SCHOLASTIC - COMPUTER LAB Language Level: elementary to pre-intermediate students. Age Group: children. Type of skill: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Type of activity: teaching MATH, SOCIAL STUDIES, LANGUAGE, SCIENCE. Teaching SPANISH. Interactive whiteboard activities. Teachers and students' activities. Lesson plans. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. Excellent website for children. :)

A software to create interactive stories.

An interactive storytelling website for kids with a collection of folk and fairy tales, plays and audiostories on themes of human ethics. Whootie Owl will be your friendly guide through it!

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.

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.

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Easily Create Photo Books, Scrapbooks, Photo Cards, Yearbooks and Calendars in minutes with our simple online scrapbooking software. Mixbook - Make It Yours!

Publish by millions. Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best. I think this is the page I talked about on Saturday. I haven't tried it yet. I'll tell you when I do.

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Great for creating a story or our students to do it, very easy. Children. Very funny and they can write the message they want.

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!

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. 

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!

This page can be used to learn commands. The students and the teacher can twitt things asking classmates to do something. For example: Joaquín stand and get a blue book, Mariana collect the homework, etc