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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!

Speeches from famous people. Listening Comprehension and speaking

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.

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. :)

Drama games, lessons and strategies that you could include in your EFL lessons Age Group: Any Skills: Speaking Resource for Teachers

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.

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 web page provides readers with a varied collection of books (short stories) of not more than 20 pages. The short stories are displayed with the title, a picture of the front cover and a brief summary. Apart from that, the web page has a number of games to play with words where you have to crack codes, guess titles, etc.