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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.

This web page is full of interesting material. There is a section to choose the level you want to teach and then, the teacher can choose some interesting (pre-designed) board games or songs (with its respective worksheets) to download. FAST DOWNLOAD!

Very appealing web page with many songs, old and new. When you choose a song you will get the lyrics as well as a worksheet with a number of activities to work in the pre, while and post listening stages of listening.

This website is useful if you are working with young learners (even children at pre-school) and you make them do many crafts related to a specific topic. For example, Halloween.

XTRANORMAL - CREATING VIDEOS WITH AVATARSLanguage Level: elementary to pre-intermediate students. Age Group: all levels.Type of skill: listening.Type of activity: creating videos with avatars, including gesters, motions, etc.Type of resource: teachers'' resource. Excellent website for TEACHERS to create movies for students!!!!

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.

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. :)

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 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.