Word on the street

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street The BBC and the British Council have co-produced this new English Language teaching pr...

10 Tools for Increasing Engagement in Online Courses

Over the last few years I've done a lot of work developing writing and redeveloping online courses and course materials. In the initial ...

10 Tech Tools for Teacher Training Courses

Over the summer I was running a number of two week ICT in language teaching courses for teachers from around the world. The courses were par...

Resources for English as a Second Language

  As they say : "UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for studen...

Going away this summer?

BBC offers " Quick Fix phrases in 40 languages ". You can learn and take essential holiday phrases in 40 languages with you on you...

Crowdsourcing Knowledge with Students

Over the last few weeks I have been playing with a very simple brainstorming and voting website called tricider . The great thing about tric...

Breaking News English

Learn English with the latest news from all over the World. More than 1.400 lessons based on Business , Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Tech...

Create Video Questionnaires

Intervue.me is a new website I have been using recently. It's another website that is based around the use of webcams. The site enables...

MEMIDEX, free on line dictionary, thesaurus and more

This is the best free  on line  dictionary and thesaurus I have ever seen.  Try it, it's great!! Dictionary/Thesaurus: As they say , Me...

Get your Students Listening and Interacting with Native Speakers

Listening in the EFL / ESL classroom can be a pretty dull business. Usually it consists of students all listening to the same thing at the...

English Speak.com

Learn spoken English for free Englishspeak.com is a free and award winning new system for learning to speak English. The program contains...

100 Sites to learn about Anything and Everything

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies This is an alphabetical list of websites which provide information and/or instru...

3 More Tasks to Teach Yourself to Teach with Technology

At the end of 2010 I published the first 5 tasks in a series to help teacher learn how to use technology with their students. Now I would l...

Book2 : 50 Languages for free

Book 2 - Learn languages online for free with 100 audio (mp3) files! book 2 contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with a basic voca...