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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.

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.

Free education sites for children adn adolescents.

Designing a poster in a poster paper seems to be old fashioned nowadays. In this website you can design a poster as colourful as you want! You can write, post photos and even videos from youtube. It's a great tool to use with adolescents! For instance, you can make them write the summary of a story : they can create mind maps or write the main ideas and even post photos or videos they consider relevant for the topic.

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.

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!

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!!! :)