Nice sites for EFL learners

I found these sites in Larry Ferlazzo's list of favourites.
TEXT-TO-SPEECH
Great tool for learners! You type the word or sentence you want, choose the accent and listen to the pronunciation. Fantastic! CLICK HERE and try it.

DOCH LISTS this site brings a list of words which when selected you can hear in a sentence (the voices are very cute)

SIGHT WORDS has various activities for beginner students. Very Good!



STARFALL very good for reading practice.
Try the CALENDAR story





ENGLISH INTERACTIVE
You won't believe your eyes! An amazing site for learners for vocabulary and grammar practice.





PROFESSOR GARFIELD
very interesting. Try the different levels.

E-GLOSSARY

click on a word, hear how it's pronounced, see and hear the word in a sentence, see a picture and read an explanation.

WEB-EDUCASTUR

vocabulary activities for kids

REALL LANGUAGES various soundspell games (memory game to be played by two people, very good!)

CURSORS of the future

Look at what cursors might be like in the future.
Cursors of the Future

Animated Letters

Animated Letters

Pitara

Try the "My ten questions" activity.

SPRINGDOO

I had already used Springdoo but hadn't really explored all its features. The tutorials are very easy to understand. This is what you can do with springdoo.

You too, can Springdoo

- Springmail
- Springblog
- Springcast

And best of all, it's all for free! Fantastic!

MEMORY

How good is your memory? In this activity you look at a picture and then have to answer a question about it.
WHAT WAS THERE?

Medieval Helpdesk

Have you ever needed helpdesk? What do you do when you can't use a new system?
Watch this funny video and let's laugh at ourselves.

The Future is here

Watch this video of a new product created by Microsoft. "The Microsoft Surface" can be a revolution. Have a look. Do you think this new product will catch on? If it does, how do you think it will influence our lives?

INTERVIEW: The Internet

This is an interview with actor Stephen Fry where he talks about the internet today.
Great listening!

VideoJug: Stephen Fry: The Internet

Creating your own room

This is a room I've created. It's clean and simple. It's got a double bed with green covers, a brown wooden wardrobe and a bedside table. There's a big window.

Students can create rooms and describe them.

CLICK HERE to make your own room.

a Fridge message

Create your own message clicking HERE.

A dancing character

I had a great time making my own dancing character. Have a look!

You can create your own dancing character by CLICKING HERE.

New Source of Energy

This video is really interesting (specially if you like dancing :)

Text message

Do you know how to write text messages in English with the abbreviations everyone uses nowadays?

Here is an exercise to help you learn this kind of language.

CLICK HERE

Happy Valentine´s day!

A vocabulary exercise

• Occupations II (students have to match animated figures to the words) Really good!
• Harry Potter Games
• Prefix games and activities
• Listen and spell, listen and match (very good)
• Various activities, collective nouns, compound words

More on GRAMMAR

Another suggestion by Larry Ferlazzo: the BBC-Skillwise site. The exercises and games are very interesting!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/

This one was Libardo´s suggestion:
http://activities.bradleys-english-school.com/

This site has a collection of links:
http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html

Now watch a cartoon from Grammarmancomic.com, SIMPLE PAST

5th June - WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

This is a special day when we should stop and listen to our planet. Observe, feel the air, look around, hear what the planet has the say. Mônica, a teacher from Belo Horizonte, shared a very good video she found in YOUTUBE about the environment. A very cool video!

English Teachers Everywhere

What a great resource for teachers!

http://etseverywhere.com offers free audio files for EFL/ ESL classes.

Dictation Innovations
Movement songs
Listenings with background noise
Vocabulary List songs

WIKI and RSS

Do you know what they are? Watch these two films and learn about these interesting tools.

• What´s a WIKI?
• What´s RSS?

Online games

This game was suggested by Libardo, an online colleague. It´s very interesting and really gets you involved. Why not give it a go?
Play Win A Million at Online Games HQ