A RIGOROUS SELECTION OF TOOLS / WEBSITES FOR ELT v.1.

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Commenting/ www.nowcomment.com Brainstorming, commenting and
polling tools.
polling
https://www.tricider.com/
https://getacquainted.co/
https://answergarden.ch/

Story tools www.storybird.com Listed tools can be used to create

stories and comics.
www.storyboardthat.com
www.toondo.com
https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Corpus Tools https://skell.sketchengine.co.uk/run.cgi/skell Listed tools are corpus based tools to

find word behaviors in authentic-
real life content. Example sentences
can be used to create handouts
based on authentic use of language.
https://www.english-corpora.org/
https://www.fraze.it/ Find example sentences based on
various criteria
http://www.better-english.com/
http://www.just-the-word.com/
http://www.netspeak.org
https://fluiddata.com/ Podcast search engine
http://www.phraseup.com

Word Clouds www.wordle.net Listed tools can be used to create

word clouds based on the text you
paste.
www.worditout.com
www.wordwanderer.org
www.tagxedo.com
www.wordclouds.com
https://tagcrowd.com/
https://www.abcya.com/games/word_clouds

Text-Vocabulary http://vocabkitchen.com/ These text analysis tools can be used

to learn more about the vocabulary
Analysis profiles and features of the text you
paste or upload.
http://www.roadtogrammar.com/textanalysis
/
www.textinspector.com

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 https://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/
www.voyant-tools.org
http://www4.caes.hku.hk/vocabulary/profile.
htm

Reading Texts www.wonderopolis.org Reading resources

http://dreamreader.net/
https://idebate.org/
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/
https://www.newsinlevels.com/
https://www.tweentribune.com/
http://www.unsourcednews.com/
https://teachingkidsnews.com/about/

Fluency www.basicenglishspeaking.com

Ready-made http://en.islcollective.com A huge collection of English

worksheets.
materials
https://www.eslprintables.com/

Pronunciation https://youglish.com A video-based (YouTube)

pronunciation dictionary
www.saylish.com A video-based (YouTube)
pronunciation dictionary
https://dictation.io/ Dictation
https://goggles.mozilla.org/ Change formatting of the web pages
as you wish and share it with your
students in the new format.

Chat Rooms http://backchannelchat.com/ These tools can be used for back-

channelling.
https://dotstorming.com/
https://yoteachapp.com/
http://showdocument.co/
https://gosynth.com
http://www.chatzy.com/

Miscellaneous https://goformative.com/ Voice comment similar to previously

famous voxopop.
http://www.triventy.com/ Voice comment. Feedback on
students’ work.
www.lessonwriter.com Create quick reading handouts based
on the text you paste.
https://vocaroo.com/ A free online voice recorder that you
can embed in your blog or webpage.

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 http://app.wizer.me/ Record your voice and send it with
any email address you want or
embed in your web page or blog.
https://www.postermywall.com/ Create posters from templates
https://www.printfriendly.com/ Play with the web page and print-it
out as you wish.
http://lingro.com/ Turns the website into a clickable
dictionary.
https://www.phonetizer.com/ui Convert any text to IPA- phonetic
alphabet
http://en.linoit.com/ Sticky notes-online board
https://www.easel.ly/ Create infographic.
http://popplet.com/ A mindmapping tool
https://www.mindmeister.com/ A mindmapping tool
https://www.plot-generator.org.uk/ Create a short story, movie script
etc.
https://commaful.com/ Story prompter
https://www.kaizena.com/ Google doc. Voice comment &
student feedback
https://bighugelabs.com/ Play and do fun stuff with pictures.
https://www341.lunapic.com/editor/ Picture editor
https://www.textcompactor.com/ Summarize texts
https://www.remove.bg/ Remove photo background.
https://smmry.com/ Summarize texts
http://flippity.net/ Play with google spreadsheets and
create fun stuff.

Exercise https://www.apps4efl.com/ These tools are exercise generators

for creating gap-fill, text jumble,
generator puzzles and etc.
http://www.learner.org/workshops/hswriting
/interactives/rubric/build.html

http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html
http://random-idea-
english.blogspot.com/2012/08/tools-gapfill-
code-generator-version-2.html
http://random-idea-
english.blogspot.com/2012/06/tools-gapfill-
printable-exercise.html
http://random-idea-
english.blogspot.com/2012/06/instant-
exercise-generator-text-jumbler_04.html
https://www.tefl.net/worksheet-generator/
http://a4esl.org/c/qw.html
https://superkids.com/aweb/tools/
https://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/ma
ke-your-own/crossword/

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 http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
CrissCrossSetupForm.asp
https://www.toolsforeducators.com/crosswor
d/crosswordmaker.php?p=&to=1
https://www.education.com/worksheet-
generator/reading/crossword-puzzle/
http://www.printablecrosswordmaker.com/cr
ossword_maker/crossword_maker.jsp
https://crosswordlabs.com/
https://crosswordhobbyist.com/
https://www.education.com/worksheet-
generator/reading/
https://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW
https://www.toolsforeducators.com/
http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/
https://www.armoredpenguin.com/
https://www.edhelper.com/

Video https://edpuzzle.com/ Videos and video tools for teachers.

Some of these tools can be used to
create
https://www.boclips.com/ interactive videos.
https://vialogues.com/
https://owntheroom.com/two-minute-talk/
https://www.classhook.com/
http://www.nextvista.org/
https://www.teachertube.com/
https://www.schooltube.com/
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
https://www.voicetube
https://www.tubequizard.com/
https://www.captiongenerator.com/
https://www.watchkin.com/
https://www.reembed.com/
https://ytcutter.com/ * Crop YouTube videos
https://hesetube.com/ *
https://www.youtubetrimmer.com/ *
http://www.tubechop.com/ *

Dictionaries www.simplevocab.com Dictionaries with cool features

www.easydefine.com
http://www.lexwall.com/
https://forvo.com/
https://www.wordnik.com/
https://visuwords.com/
http://vocabahead.com/

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 https://wordsift.org/
www.vocabulary.com

Curation www.padlet.com Listed tools are curation tools that

can be used to combine multi-media
elements to create materials for
language teaching and learning.
www.livebinders.com
www.blendspace.com

Photo & video https://pixabay.com/ Free photos and videos

https://www.pexels.com/
https://www.pexels.com/videos/

Screen https://screencast-o-matic.com/
Recording

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