USEFUL WEBSITES TO LEARN AND PRACTICE ENGLISH

1. Hundreds of web pages for teachers in a list: http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index22.html 2. Culture, traditions, calendars, festivities, education: http://www.projectbritain.com/calendar/january.html 3. HUNDREDS OF PRINTABLES FOR TEACHERS: http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards/months.php 4. For teachers and children: http://www.dltk-teach.com/ 5. For writing and speaking: http://www.writefix.com/ 6. For listening about almost any topics and divided into three levels: http://www.esl-lab.com/ 7. British Council website: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/ 8. British Council website for children: http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm 9. Phonetics flashcards(You can make your own): http://www.funfonix.com/worksheets/choose_pic_all.php 10. A colourful website for children: Games, activities, stories, colouring Great fun!: http://www.ziggityzoom.com/ 11. One of the best: Three different levels: A very good site to learn English: Grammar, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary http://www.eslflow.com/ 12. Crafts for kids: Calendars, bookmarks, min-books, colouring in English or Spanish (Dynamic Languages Toolkit) http://www.dltk-kids.com/ 13. To learn English online: A new expression, word, proverb, idiom or quote everyday: http://www.english-daily.com/ 14. For Primary Education: A very complete and up-to-date site about lots of subjects. Very useful for teachers: http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/ 15. A very useful website to learn English: http://www.saberingles.com.ar/index.html 16. http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/literacy.html 17. http://www.teflgames.com/procards.html 18. First Certificate: Vocabulary, exercises, listening: http://www.mansioningles.com/First_cert.htm 19. Good to practice listening all levels (First Certificate): http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm 20. Similar to the next one. Good: http://www.agendaweb.org/listening/podcast-mp3.html 21. Good. Lots of listening exercises to download or practice on the net: http://lightupyourbrain.com/emperors-new-clothes-audio-story.htm 22. Good to read, listen, practice and write texts http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ 23. Sayings http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/sayindex.htm 24. Listenings and their texts http://www.trainyouraccent.com/arestaurants.htm 25. Free printables for special education: http://www.senteacher.org/

26. The same as above allows you to create your own crosswords, diagrams, rhymes ideal to prepare your own material: http://www.senteacher.org/Print/Literacy/ 27. You can find good free resources here from the publishing company MacMillan Heinemann: http://www.the-bus-stop.net/ 28. It includes a number of thinking guides that you are free to use, change and share. You can register for free to create and save your own thinking guides easily and fast. http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ VIDEOS: 29. Thousands of videos and articles. Apart from watching the videos, you can also read the text version while youre listening and, furthermore, download everything Really interesting: http://www.videojug.com/ 30. These videos and articles explain how many machines, objects work. Besides, you can search for information about History, animals, adventure, computer....: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ 31. Videos for children: http://www.totlol.com/ 32. Similar to videojug:http://www.monkeysee.com/ 33. Videos taken from youtube and organised in topics. Its free, but you have to subscribe: http://es.yappr.com/welcome/Welcome3.action 34. Funny and interesting: http://www.watchmojo.com/index.php?id=1 35. English lessons online: youtube: Mr. Duncan http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mr+duncan&search_type=&aq=f 36. http://www.watchmojo.com/index.php?id=1 37. http://www.hotenglishmagazine.com/videos.php 38. Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/news/video 39. ELO: English Listening Online: Texts included: http://www.elllo.org/ 40. Real English: http://www.real-english.com/reo/index.html 41. TED DICTIONARIES 42. Good to learn and practice English http://www.curso-ingles.com/index.php 43. Cambridge dictionaries online 44. Encarta World English Dictionary 45. Newbury House Online Dictionary 46. Rogets II Thesaurus 47. Webster Dictionary 48. Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary 49. Acronym Finder in English 50. A new way of learning general and specific vocabulary through images: http://visual.merriam-webster.com/ 51. Very informal, with new colloquial words and expressions: If you look up the word house, you arent likely to find the description of a building. You can add your own explanations: http://www.urbandictionary.com/ 52. Formal, trustworthy or reliable and the one I always use: If you cant find the word, you can also ask in forums http://www.wordreference.com/es/ 53. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/

NEWSPAPERS 54. The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/crosswords/index.html 55. The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ 56. A Web page that redirects you to all the UK newspapers http://kiosko.net/uk/ 57. A Web page that redirects you to all the USA newspapers http://kiosko.net/us/

READING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN A webpage with stories in English for children; some of them with audio: http://www.magickeys.com/books/ BOOKS www.usborne.com (Tessa the teacher) www.dk.com (The Sunny Day Book) www.ladybird.com (Wheels on the bus) www.bloomsbury.com (Marvin wanted more) LISTENING TO STORIES ONLINE WITH TEXT (YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD THEM) http://storynory.com/category/stories/ PRIMARY EDUCATION 1. www.primaryresources.com 2. www.enchantedlearning.com 3. www.mes-english.com 4. www.starfall.com 5. www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4-11/primaryart 6. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11/site/geography.shtml 7. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/k2bitesize/science 8. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather 9. www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/uptoyou 10. www.crickweb.co.uk 11. www.theteachersguide.com 12. www.gameskidsplay.net 13. www.gibbons.ca/creative/lets_sing.htm 14. www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-rhymes.htm 15. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bitesizeprimary

GENERAL WEBSITES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. www.bbc.co.uk/schools www.news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews www.nc.uk.net www.tes.co.uk www.teachers.tv www.direct.gov.uk www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/resourcematerials www.factworld.info

9. www.onestopclil.com
10. www.britishcouncil.org/learning-elt-teach-english.htm 11. www.ngfl.gov.uk 12. www.curriculumonline.gov.uk 13. www.teachingenglish.org.uk 14. www.onestopenglish.com 15. www.englishclub.com 16. www.wilderdom.com/games/index2.html 17. www.streetplay.com/thegames 18. www.2scholastic.com 19. www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources TEACHERS WEBSITES 1. http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/anamerca/

2. http://elenacasadoalonso.blogspot.com/
3. ARTS AND CRAFTS www.richmondelt.com Same and different People are different How are you? Explore fabric elephants Create a kinetic collage or do a tracing activity. http://www.fablevision.com/place/museum/artbox.html Warm and cold. Explore warm and cold colours Students explore examples of warm and cold colours. Then create their own picture. http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/watch_color_warm.cfm City lines Explore etchings. Students put the cursor of their mouse on the photos to find the hidden lines. http://www.iamanartist.ie/drawing/can_you_01.html

Curved lines Drag the crayon and explore drawing and stamping. Students can change colours and designs and even print, save or send their artwork to a friend. Click on replay and watch the steps come to life. http://imagination3.com Toys A magic carpet. Follow the instructions, and paint the shapes. http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/kids-games-paintshapes.htm A magic carpet. Explore stamps. Design patterns using squares, triangles and other figures. http://mathforum.org/varnelle/patterns.html A magic carpet.Fathers Day: a mosaic. Design a mosaic using an interactive grid. http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/mosaic/easy.htm City lines.A landscape. Students design their own city with buildings, roads, trees, etc. http://kids.tate.org.uk/create/ A jungle puzzle. Students practise mouse skills with online animal puzzles. http://www.billybear4kids.com/animal/puzzles/main.html Its windy. Explore modern art. Change the shape and colour of objects in a moving river. http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/riverrun.htm Planets. A landscape. Explore light and dark. Mix and draw with millions of colours. http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/swatchbox.htm Warm and cold. Warm and cold colours. Click interactive whiteboard activity for a lesson about colours. Students play a game to see what theyve learned. http://www.ngflcymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase2delivery/Wales/Art1/Keystage1/Colour/ VOCABULARY:

www.languageguide.org
ESL Vocabulary Quiz-School Vocabulary (Lettia Bradley) I-TESL-J

www.primaryschool.com.au

PROVERBS: http://www.learn-english-today.com/Proverbs/proverbs.html http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proverbs.html READING TEXTS READY FOR EXAMS: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1201/120108-jamaica.html