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Drama warm ups and improvisations that can be used by english teachers in the classroom. Group age: children, teens and adults. Skills: Listening and Reading. Resource for teachers

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LINGUALNET Language Level: all levels. Age Group: all ages. Type of skill: listening (videos, scenes) and reading (scripts) Type of activity: Short videos with their scripts below them (not EVERY video) and sometimes even have some extra activities to check comprehension.  Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. VIDEOS! CELEBRITY, DOCUMENTARY, DRAMA and ANIMATION are the ones I prefer the most and I find most interesting for my students. 

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!!! :)

Free online resources for teachers and students. There are articles, short stories, crosswords, grammar explanations, and much more. For all levels and ages.

Site of the publishing house, full of free resources for each of their books + prepared lessons for differentl ages and levels

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.

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!

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.

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.

ESL Galaxy is an interesting web page full of materials for students and teachers. It has downloadable activities on grammar and vocabulary as well as a section on board games and printables.

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.

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.

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.

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.