Larry Ferlazzo Website of the day

Description: Larry Ferlazzo's websites of the day offers a huge organized database of websites. There are a number of collection of different topics.
Webpage: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
Possible uses: This website is really useful as a starting point to search for resources about a number of topics.
Advantages and disadvantages: Its main advantage and disadvantage is the same: the great amount of resources that it storages. Therefore, sometimes looking for resources it's quite time-consuming. Many times, the classification of the level of the students it is directed to is not very clear, nevertheless, this is a great resource for ESL teachers.

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elllo.org

Description: elllo provides graded listening activities. It also provides games and hints of academic listening. Platform: website elllo.org Possible uses: I use it as a library of listening activities and as an extension or reinforcement activities for those students who want to improve their listening. I usually put links to this website in my classroom blog. Advantages and disadvantages: Its main disadvantage is the layout. It is neither user friendly nor very intuitive but its advantages are superior to this disadvantage. I find particularly interesting the possibility to expose the learner to different accents.

Englishgrammar.org

Description: Englishgrammar.org provides detailed grammar explanations, with downloadable lessons and online exercises. It also offers some useful tools like plagiarisma, wordcounter and grammar checker. Website: http://www.englishgrammar.org Uses: A great reference site to check grammar, to offer grammar lessons and self-correcting exercises.

Trading Card Generator

Where to find it? Trading Card Creator Description: This flash application allows to create trading cards for different types of characters and events. The writing is guided by means of different questions that allow students to make a complete card.

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