Multimedia Applied to ELT

USBORNE ENGLISH LEARNERS' EDITIONS Language Level: elementary to upper-Intermediate level students. Age Group: CHILDREN Type of skill: listening (audio in the website) and reading (books) Type of activity: BOOKS READ ENTIRELY. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. WORSHEETS FOR STUDENTS ABOUT THE BOOKS, AND STORIES. BOOKS AVAILABLE AT KEL! NOT VERY EXPENSIVE BOOKS!

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!!! :)

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!

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.

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!

Character Education for Children through Principles and Values. There are no many sites that focus on values, so I find this really valuable.

Free education sites for children adn adolescents.

Look for someone to teach and to learn from new languages. Great for conversation but, again, a way to get immersed in the English culture.

This is a site to refer to when there are doubts about gramamr or writing. It is serious and reliable.

E-books, catalogues, pictures.

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

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.

Great resources for teachers. all levels and skills. I found useful scripts to work in the drama lesson.

Tutorials in Phonetics and pronunciation for those who are eager to include phonetics and pronunciation in their lessons.

Rhyming Dictionary for poetry. Type of skill:Writing, especially for creating poems, chants and nursery rhymes. Type of resource: teachers and students' resource. Great resources for teachers.

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.

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 is a great website to encourage your students to create their own stories. It helps them a lot! You can choose the listening or the printable activity.

Have been to Once but haven't found encouraging stickers for your students? Browse this website! Just copy the image and make your students' notebooks more enjoyable!! Lots of designs