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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!

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 web application knows how to mime a "real" conversation with a person. It is disigned to follow the organization of a chat room, the only difference is that you are talking to a machine. It is a great tool to practice short cornversations with your students.

This is a great web site with many podcasts for you to download and use with your students in your classrooms. It has audio files on interesting things, such as: daily activities, asking for information and polite or impolite conversations. The only drawback is that you need to subscribe in order to be able to download.

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.

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!