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!
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 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