Make a puzzle for your students for free. This is just a tool, perhaps not a resource, but which cild doesn't love making puzzles. You can use it also with adults!
Creative, funny, numerous and free flashcards!! Divided into categories and in different sizes, these flashcards can be very useful for teachers of English! In addition to this, with the pictures from the flashcards, you can create games such as mazes, dice or bingos. You can also use them to make worksheets depending on what you want to practise (even phonetics!). Certificates to prize students' achievements also available!
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!
Free online resources for teachers and students. There are articles, short stories, crosswords, grammar explanations, and much more. For all levels and ages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.