The British Council introduces this small applet, Text Terminator, from Learn English Central. Students must complete hidden texts in three different levels. You can listen to the story if it is too difficult.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-games-text-terminator-index.htm#how-to-play
Have a look at this! Learn English and have a good laugh! How to insult Shakespeare-like. The best and easiest toolkit! Word formation, vocabulary… what else!
Bye for now, droning full-gorged maggot-pies!!
Build your own lessons and assignments for your students in this interesting website, a very good example of social WWW and web 2.0.
Register and start creating your posts/lessons/tasks right away. Embed video, links and images, and ask for your student’s feedback and tasks. They will even receive an email when they send you what they have done.
If you want to have a clear picture of what ChitCh.at is like, watch this introductory video, or find some very good tutorials in the website and youTube as well.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/uRcCiMlRnSE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
Zimmer Twins is an amazing Canadian website which allows you to create your own cartoon. You can use different backgrounds, characters with their different faces and expressions, movement and other extras. The interface is very user-friendly and intuitive. Simple clicks and drop-down menus help you create a nice story that you can later share with your friends. I’m sure students will love it!
Once you are in Zimmer Twins’ home page, register and click on 
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Now, select 
from the main page:
That will take you to the creative space, wher you can start to make your own movie:
The library on the right, which you can navigate by selecting the upper tags, gives you the possibility to choose out of different images. Select a main character with a speech bubble:
See if you like it and modify the background by clicking here 
, or the character:
Add actions the characters can perform out of the library:
And modify again what you prefer with a simple click:
Add close-up expressions to portrait feelings:
And also text, captions and effects:
You can always control the process and re-order images through the storyboard:
And, when you are happy with what you’ve produced… just save and watch it. Other students can watch it through the website or you can send it via e-mail…
Enjoy it!
Nice and short activity from 
, a nice website from Time magazine, which offers adapted news and other resources. Maybe the focus is a bit too much on the USA, but some things are useful. The game zone gives the same impression, but this activity I’m posting here on a green house, is a very interesting way to help students learn how to be more environmentally-friendly. It’s not a game, really, it’s just a small applet, but nice!
We often quarrel about teching methods. I think a communicative approach is basically what attains the highest degrees of satisfaction amongst our students. Nevertheless, we should ot forget that, sometimes, it is also good to get hold of activities that help students to reinforce their linguistic structural foundations, that is, grammar. Eventually, I’ll be writing about websites whose goal is to help people get some more practise and skills on that field. There are many interesting websites that help teachers make grammar teaching less cumbersome.
BBC Skillswise is a very interesting website that deals with drills related to those foundatons we are talking about. Exercises are catchy, and they move away from old hot potatoes interface (Let us all praise this old and good application anyway!!)
