Oxford English Testing

Place your students in the right class testing their level of English online (CEFR level, score out of 120, time taken, etc), saving time with automatic marking. Then, help your students improve their exam results managing exam practice with the online Learning Management System, assigning online practice tests with help including instant feedback on answers, exam tips and an integrated dictionary, OR without help as a mock exam, saving time with automatic marking and easily identify areas of weakness to focus on in class. Finally, be prepared or prepare your students for English exams with automatic marking, exam tips, online dictionary and instant feedback on answers. 

Disadvantage? Everything is paid. But I'm willing to try it!

http://www.oxfordenglishtesting.com/DefaultMR.aspx?id=3034&menuId=1

P.S.: Aaaand you still have time to take part in the raffle!

Project Third Edition - Home Study

This website has been very useful in my extra help classes for FII.

Project Third Edition  - Home Study is the Student's Site of the book Project Third Edition  It has five levels, each one with listening, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar exercises, games, tests, picture dictionary, phrase builder and audio from the book. One type of the tests is harder and longer than expected, the audio will only be useful for you if you have the book, but you can do a lot with all the other parts of the site.

I don't know the book, I've never seen it before, but the website is very nice!

http://elt.oup.com/student/project3rdedition/?mode=student&cc=global&selLanguage=en

P.S.: Oh! Don't forget the raffle!

New English File Online

This website has been very useful in my extra help classes for FII.

New English File Online is the Student's Site of the book New English File. It has seven levels, each one with listening, writing, pronunciation and grammar exercises, useful links and download of extra materials. Most of the exercises are supposed to be done with the book support, but you still can do a lot here without using this book.

I have already used this book fore some days, when helping a coleague, and I liked the book better than the site. The song activities are awesome!

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

P.S.: Don't forget: Raffle!

CoSketch

This online tool allows one or more users to create an online sketch in real-time; no registration is needed and the image can be embedded in a blog or Web site with the included code. I believe it's an alternative to Power Point and / or Papershow.

http://cosketch.com/

Letters

Madness. Not really a game, and yet I had a lot of fun playing with Letters, a Flash Communications Server application. The multiuser Flash application is reminiscent of those old Fisher Price Letters. Basically, there is a white board with lots of English alphabet letters on it that you drag around to form words, sort into colors, or what ever you like. Problem is, there are many others all doing the same thing. Letters flying every which way, letters being taken from your words to form other words nearby. Hilarious fun.

Why not taking your students to the Lab of your school to play this together...?

NOTE: This is an anonymous, multi-user online environment, and therefore your experience, good or bad, heavily depends upon the nature of the other individuals playing at the same time. I offer no guarantee that your experience will be like mine was when I first played this. Proceed at your own risk.

http://lunchtimers.com/game/?game=letters&roomid=room1

GoAnimate

Sometimes we want to use videos in our classes that talk about a certain grammar point, but it's very hard to find a movie that fits in perfectly on it, isn't it? If you like technology, it won't be hard anymore!

On GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations. It's easy, fun and free! GoAnimate makes it easy to make animations exactly the way you want.

http://goanimate.com/?utm_source=embed

Oxford Living Grammar Online

Since last August I've been teaching extra help classes for FII and this website has been very useful.

Oxford Living Grammar Online is the Student's Site of the book Oxford Living Grammar. It has four levels, each one with listening and grammar exercises, useful links, download of extra materials and a test. Most of the links are paid, the test is harder and longer than expected, but you can do a lot with the listening and grammar exercises.

I don't know the book, I've never seen it before, but the website is very nice!

http://elt.oup.com/student/livinggrammar/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

The Oatmeal

Your reading classes won't be the same again with this site! The Oatmeal has very funny quizzes and comics - some about serious subjects, as "How to use a semicolon", "How to use an apostrophe" and "Ten words you need to stop misspelling" - and I believe can be used as light easy reading, to make students enjoy and have fun at the same time. Reading is so hard and boring for most of them, some classes with this site will make them see reading can be cool.

http://theoatmeal.com/

Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. The topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between.

Teachers can use digital storytelling as a teaching tool in the classroom. This page addresses how to best utilize software such as Photo Story 3 in ESL or foreign language classrooms. Using digital storytelling will assist both the visual and auditory learners. It is important that the student has a model outside of the classroom. This will allow students to practice and engage in active learning even when the instructor is not present.

http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/esl.html

Text-To-Speech

When you open this site you see a person. When you use your mouse the eyes and the head of the character move. She or he will say everything you type. Try it: Type a word or a phrase (use punctuation) and click on 'Say It'; the character will say everything on the language you have chosen, using the accent you have chosen. Your students can use it to practice pronunciation.

http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php

Can you name all the games?

Think of it as a Where’s Waldo and Guess Who mix - Arcade Aid is a huge graphic with gaming references to classic and modern games, and the goal is to name them all. Initially it had 56 games, now it has 167! If you do then you can brag to everyone in the school yard that you are indeed a gaming wizard. But, to name them all you don't need to be addicted to games, you just need to think in English... Applying it in your class as an warm-up activity or as an end of class activity on an interactive board would make your teen students love you, specially the boys, wouldn't it? You can also send it as an extra activity for them do it at home or spend some minutes on the school lab doing it. As I'm not that mean, you can have the answers here: http://shogungamer.com/news/arcade-aid-answers-list-and-solutions-poster .

http://www.arcadeaid.com/challengingstage/

Ask MisterDuncan

Besides running Learning English with MisterDuncan (The World of English), the English teacher MisterDuncan also has a new place to teach online. He uses 'Ask MisterDuncan' as a video forum to answer questions sent by his viewers about the English language. I have never used his classes because I never had the opportunity, but I believe it can be used as a different way of explaining/illustrating some subjects to students. If you want to send him a question, the address is misterduncan@ymail.com .

http://www.youtube.com/user/askmisterduncan

CastTV

The best place to find TV Shows! The goal of CastTV is to index every video on the web and to help users find videos that matter to them. The site wants to give users the best way to find all their online videos, from TV shows to the latest celebrity, sports, news, and viral videos. What is sad about this site is that some videos are paid... But if on your workplace you have an Internet Lab or access to the Internet on the PC where the video projector is used (and are going to use the free videos), you will never rent TV Shows anymore to do video activity with your students!

http://www.casttv.com/

Learning English with MisterDuncan (The World of English)

Mr. Duncan has worked in China for 4 years as an Oral English Teacher and now he lives in England. He loves teaching, that's the reason for producing these video classes. I have never used this in my classes because I have never had the opportunity, but it seems to work. If you use it before me, please, let me know!

http://www.youtube.com/user/duncaninchina

Mes English

 

Resources designed to be versatile and useful in many K-6 classrooms: Flashcards, worksheets and handouts to match, phonics cards, ESL games, an international project exchange library, printable certificates, printable stickers and activities all ready for printing. I loooooooooove this site, I use it all the time!

http://www.mes-english.com/

Free Printable Coloring Pages

More than 3,000 coloring pages that you can download and print to use in tests, flashcards, activities... Enjoy!

http://www.freeprintablecoloringpages.net/

Free ESL Flashcards

Here you'll find hundreds of flash cards; every set of flashcards comes in color and 3 different sizes. Currently there are 968 total images and 2904 total flashcards. I love this site, it always helps me a lot!

http://www.eslflashcards.com/

Movie Segments for Warm-ups and Follow-ups

Movie Segments for Warm-ups and Follow-ups is another great blog by Claudio Azevedo. It also contains a series of movie segments to be used to brainstorm, warm up, follow up, and activate schemata, preparing the students for the topic that will be discussed in class. You'll find there the movie segments (about 5 minutes of each movie), the lesson plans (complete!!!) and printable worksheets  for each activity. New activities are posted regularly - Hooray! You can search the activities through movie name or topic. Claudio affirms that you may use the activities for a full two-hour class or they can be used separately to brainstorm or wrap up the topic, focusing on conversation, vocabulary and listening comprehension; so feel free to adapt the movie activities for you classes and enjoy! I've already used some activities of this site with my teenagers and it worked perfectly, I'm sure it will work with you too!

http://warmupsfollowups.blogspot.com.br/

Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals

Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals contains a series of movie segments and activities to assess or practice grammar points through fun and challenging exercises. Its owner, Claudio Azevedo, is an English teacher at Casa Thomas Jefferson, a Branch Coordinator and Teacher Trainer as well. You'll find there the movie segments (about 5 minutes of each movie), the lesson plans (complete!!!) and printable worksheets with answer key for each activity (Microsoft Word format). New activities are posted regularly - Hooray! You can search the activities through movie name or grammar point. Claudio affirms that teaching grammar with movie segments is inspiring and highly motivating, and I agree. I've already used his activities in my classes and all my students loved them! Once the grammar point has a meaning to the students they have fun and study more without realizing it, and this kind of movie activities can do it for them.

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com.br/

Beeclip EDU

Beeclip EDU is a digital scrapbook for student creativity, imagination, and self-expression. Students can combine images, videos and text in their scrapbooks while you can manage classes and projects. They can also collaborate, share, download & print their scrapbooks - and you too!!! More important than that, Beeclip EDU has been designed from the ground up with the aim of protecting you and your students safety and privacy. Let's try it?

Thank you @NikPeachey , for the tip! ^^

http://edu.beeclip.com/