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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!

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.

Very complete mindmap with Web 2.0 tools

Activities for the little ones to learn and have fun all at the same time!

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!!! :)

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

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 helpful web page for teachers who want to get the latest news on teaching and who want to get some extra ideas for lessons. To get the material you can register for free and find material to work with the four skills, grammar activities, vocabulary activities and games. You can also find a number of articles in teaching and learning.

Video tutorials and links to relevant blogs on ELT and Multimedia

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.

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.

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.

Topics which trigger discussion. New York Times

Here you will find songs which are being constantly updated. The web page also has some exercises online to do as you listen and watch the video of the songs.

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.

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.

A site suggested by N. L. on how to work collaboratively. It, in turn, proposes some other links.

A software to create interactive stories.