Multimedia Applied to ELT

This is a wonderful website to use in class with young learners. It provides a great deal of colouring pages and craft activities. Still, the best section of the website is the "story studio." You can create characters and kids can become part of the story too! It's very simple and soooo hilarious!They need to upload a photo, press enter and in two seconds their photos turn into a cartoon. Fabulous, isn't it?

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 web page provides students with interesting grammar and vocabulary activities as well as explanations. The best section of all may be the games' section where students can play hangman, find the pair and find the word.

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.

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.

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.

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 the official page to download the program Audacity. With this program you can select, cut and copy audio material to be fed into your students' audio players or computers.

Funny poems, rhymes, word games, poetry contests and great ideas for educators!

Kenn Nesbitt's poetry playground: funny poems and poetry books for children, games, funny poetry podcast, a rhyming dictionary and a lot more!

Short stories and tales for children to teach values. Audiostories in English and Spanish. Excellent resource for teachers!

BUSYTEACHERSCAFE Language Level: Elementary to Intermediate levels. Age Group: Primary level. Mainly 1st to 4th/5th forms Type of skill: mainly reading and writing. Type of activity: printables for students (book reports: characters, situations themes, etc, vicabulary sheets - dictionary practice sheets , story maps, games, activities, suggestions for teachers' classroom management strategies. RULES and BEHAVIOUR GAMES. Type of resource: teachers' resource. GOOD SHEETS!

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.

Designing a poster in a poster paper seems to be old fashioned nowadays. In this website you can design a poster as colourful as you want! You can write, post photos and even videos from youtube. It's a great tool to use with adolescents! For instance, you can make them write the summary of a story : they can create mind maps or write the main ideas and even post photos or videos they consider relevant for the topic.

This website is useful if you are working with young learners (even children at pre-school) and you make them do many crafts related to a specific topic. For example, Halloween.