Word Central Games

Merriam-Webster's Word Central has the Games section with  Alpha-bot, Robo-Bee, BIGbot, Jumble Kids games - nicely designed and funny, these games will help students improve their vocabulary skills in an easy and active way. The games are a good thing to make vocabulary practice the students' favourite.

technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME!

technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME! - the post with a great collection of teaching time resources. It often happens that when students learn how to speak about time in English they are not sure about understanding the time at all. These resources will surely help children
both read clocks and tell the time in English correctly.

Learning English

Learn English from GCFLearnFree.org is a good way to introduce or practise vocabulary with children. There are the sections: Action, Art, Conversation, family, Financial, Food and Beverage, Geography, Government, Plants and Animals, Quantity, Questions, Science, Shapes and Colors. In each section there are four activities: Word Explorer, Text Explorer, Video Dictionary, Fill in the Blank. Among these activities which are numerous and interactive the teacher can choose the ones suitable for the lesson.

Be Happy!

Confusing Words

ConfusingWords is a list of commonly confused English word pairs. Each pair is given the definition, the examples, True or False and Drag and Drop exercises. Very useful to have such a list at hand.

VocabAhead

VocabAhead is a great vocabulary-learning site illustrating words with nice short videos (picture, definition, example). It makes learning words both fun and interactive, being extremely good and convenient both for students and teachers.

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Vocabulary.co.il  is a vocabulary website with flash online word games. They include an online word search, an online crossword puzzle, hangman online, unscrambles and others. The fun of the games can help both native and foreign learners of English build their English language vocabulary skills. There are word games for all levels of English.

Learning Chocolate

The bright thing I have come across today is Learning Chocolate - Vocabulary Learning Platform - USEFUL vocabulary, ready-made exercises, nice pictures. Suitable for using in class, at home with your own children, with different age groups.

Exam English

Exam English is for studying for an English language exam, contains Free Online Practice Tests for the most important international ESL/EFL exams: IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, and the Cambridge ESOL exams such as CAE, FCE, and PET. Offers the free level test, the detail information about each exam and the practice material as  an example of the test. Convenitent to have all that in one place.

abcteach

abcteach site is full of various resources, especially for young learners. The Teaching Extras section offers many efl-useful printable things under numerous subcatogories like Alphabet Letter patterns, Classroom Signs, Posters, Badges and others. Some materials are free to download, some need member login.  A really time-saving thing for a teacher!

One more site which offers a wide range of printables is Lanternfish. It contains various printable teacing resources for languagee arts, TESOL, TEFL, ESL. Worksheets, flashcards, bingo cards and the discriptions of different games and activities make the site really useful.