Word card generator

Abcteach web site includes a tool to create lists of word cards. The user can choose the topic, font, size and colour of the writing.

Bingo cards

Custom Bingo Cards

Phonetics

These are several online resources that can be helpful to practise and improve pronunciation.

Ship or Sheep website displays some lists of words that focus on the differentiation of a particular sound by comparing minimal pairs.

Oxford University Press: New File.

• This web page introduces the phonemic symbols of English by associating them to pictures that represent a word that contains a particular sound. Phonems and words can be listened to by dragging the mouse on the pictures.

• Stress monsters is a game aimed at identifying the stressed syllable in different words.

Learn English Kids (British Council) also includes several resources to practise spelling and phonetic awareness.

• Phonemic chart

• Tricky words. This section contains matching activities and tests to practise spelling related to a particular phoneme.

Story Maker

Story Maker is a simple activity that allows students to choose several items in a story. It makes three different types of story: fairy stories, horror stories and science-fiction.

Activities for Easter

These are some resources related to Easter and spring:

A story:
The Great Egg Hunt

Handicrafts:
How to Make a Spring Hat

Handouts:
Easter Worksheets

Make a monster

Make a monster is a simple game based on Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings. The aim is to create a monster by choosing its body parts from the models provided. The new pictures can be printed out or saved as pdf documents and can be used to practise description.

Example:

My monster has the head of a bird and the legs of a horse. It has the tail of a sea monster and two big wings. It has got two antlers and long pointed ears. It is always angry.

The language of computers and the Internet in English

These are some glossaries and other type of resources that can turn out helpful to learn and practise the languages related to computer use.
About.com Spanish/English and Aprendiom offer bilingual lists of computing terms in English and Spanish.

Common computer terms in English is a monolingual glossary.

The British Council web site offers a song that includes some vocabulary related to computers: My Computer Mouse as well as some other activities on this topic.

The following video shows basic vocabulary on computers:

From Rags to Riches

From Quia-Shared Activities web page we can access a good number of interactive activities created by teachers. Criteria for searching them include type of activity, subject or area of interest and levels. If we choose 'From Rag to Riches' and 'ESL-English as a second language' we can find games such as the following:

- 'a, an, or nothing'
- 'Apartments and furniture'
- 'To be: present tense'
- 'Family words'
- 'Where questions'

Templates and guidelines to create games based on 'Who wants to be a millionaire?" TV contest can be found here.

Creating photo stories

Time for a Photo Story proposes a sequence of activities aimed at ESO 1 students. It can be carried out in around ten lessons and gives opportunities to develop language, arts, and ICT skills.




Time for a Photo Story: teacher guide

Time for a Photo Story: student materials

Educaplay

Educaplay is an educational service that allows teachers to create short activities for their students. All those activities become public and make up a bank of resources for other teachers to use.

An example:


Tutorials

Types of activities:

1. RIDDLE: guessing a word
Example:
Money
2. FILL IN BLANKS: gap-filling
Examples:
There is / There are
Shops
Dialogue
3- CROSSWORD
Example:
Opposites
4. DIALOGUE
Example:
Introductions
5. DICTATION
Example:
English dictation
6. JUMBLED WORD
Examples:
Animal 1
Animal 2
7. JUMBLED SENTENCE
Example:
Tongue twister
8. MATCHING GAME: association
Examples:
Family: match male and female nouns
Oviparous / Viviparous
9. WORDSEARCH PUZZLE
Examples:
Animals
Clothes
10. QUIZ
Example:
Vocabulary
11. INTERACTIVE MAP: labelling for identification
Examples:
Bugs in English
Parts of the face 
Home Sweet Home

Pictures to practice vocabulary and description

These are a couple of websites that provide panoramas that can be used for games such as 'I see with my little eye', 'Find something that starts with the letter...' or as a trigger for oral and written descriptions.

Panoramas dk

Arounder

Image search engines

These are three three engines that allow online image search according to criteria such as colour or topic:
Multicolor Search

Wylio and FlickrCC search for 'creative commons' pictures.