For students who only need simple texts, with brief (sometimes scarce) information and simple language, here’s a useful Wikipedia version: Simple English Wikipedia
The very same interface as an ordinary Wikipedia, but with simpler language. Short articles which can be easily read by ESO students. Not much to comment, just browse through the site. Maybe a good idea would be to ask students to enrich articles with more complex sentences or descriptions.
Geocube is a very interesting website for those who want to use English in Social Science secondary lessons or those who want to introduce concepts of Social Science in their English lessons (CLIL).
A cube you can turn with the mouse shows 6 different aspects concerning our world: Living Together, The Fascinating World, Exploring Our World, Shrinking Planet, Earth from all Angles and Useful Geographies. By clicking one of the sides, 9 different issues related to the title of the “side” appear. When you choose one of these issues, a screen appears with information related to the topic, together with illustrating images and videos.
A very engaging layout entices you quickly. The information is concise and clear. Very useful when you work with your students in cross-curricular projects… ideal for PDI’s!
Sit down and relax… this webpage is a gift for all English teachers!
Tales of 20th Century London puts right in front of you 100 years of London history. You can travel back to four different periods of 20th century London and learn how young people lived.
First of all, once you have selected the period you want to travel to, you will learn about life, leisure, food, clothes and history.
You will experience what life was like…
and questions will be asked where you will have to make choices related to that kind of life in thet period.
Learn about life in the period of WWI and WWII, life in the 50’s and the crazy 60’s and 
finally life in the last 20 years of the century.
Another nice activity you can do with students: Have a look at some districts in London… you will be shown a picture of that area in the past… go to the WWW and find a picture of that same area now, and post it!! Good for describing and comparing.
A very catchy website, colourful and easy to follow. Be sure your students will love it!
xtranormal… xtracatchy!!! Your students will be able to create movies in 10 minutes… their imagination is the limit… and the number of characters and backgrounds of the free version, of course! But it’s really enough to create interesting stories with your pupils.
Text-to-Movie is the 2D online version which lets you embed your creations in blogs or send the url to friends (or teachers 🙂 ). The downloadable version is called State. The free version of State lets you create 3D stories with the same limitations of the free online version Movie-to-Text. Movies created with State can be exported to mp4 or also uploaded into youtube.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/FXPyCgOQkI0" width="282" height="232" wmode="transparent" /]
Think! is an interesting website run by the British government offering various engaging activities for teens concerning road education: You can play a game showing you are smart enough to manage time and attitude to reach a place safely. Investigate an accident and find out what shouldn’t have been done but was… Worth having a look, believe me!
Have a look at this site… CREA is a section of edu365.cat. It offers reference of different collaborative and innovative tools, most of which can be successfully used in our English classrooms.
I’ll be posting articles about these so called 2.0 tools. Let’s create cartoons, movies, stories, posters, polls… let’s create real time collaborative writing, timelines, and many other things… let’s make things catchier in our lessons!
Hello again!
It’s been a long time, and no excuses can bring forgiveness to my oblivion… too much work at home… three daughters… Probably I could have found the time to publish briefer posts, but my mind was elsewhere. My apologies. I promise I’ll try to stay in tune with you!
So… here I am! Back from outer space!
If you think videogames can be helpful in our ELT lessons, this is a site for you!
Channel 4 brings us this interesting adventure based on the real Bow Street Runners created to fight crime and control the streets of London during the 18th century. Pick objects, talk to people and investigate in order to solve the crimes in the story. Being a free online game as it is, the quality is extremely rich. Advanced students will have a good time as they roam through the muddy streets trying to solve the mystery.
A new network community has been created:
This social NING platform is devoted to the dissemination of ideas related to the use of videogames in education. teachers can talk about their experiences and comment on others’
A good number of ELT teachers use videogames in their classrooms. You only need to register for free and sign in.
This might be the place for you!