41 Didactic Resources for English Teaching & Learning 2020
Resource Bank
“ ○ This Resource Bank is the result of a collaborative construction within a group of English teachers. ○ The aim of the Resource Bank is to provide a set of 41 useful and meaningful sites that can be used in the teaching & learning of English. ○ Each collaborator has made 3 contributions to this didactic Resource Bank.
“ ○ Each resource contains its own description, general features, the skills that are exploited in the teaching and learning process and the link of access. ○ Teachers are motivated to explore this Resource Bank as an invitation to implement diverse resources that can excel the English teaching and learning process.
41 Resources For English Teaching & Learning
1. Lyricstraining Description:
Features:
Lyricstraining is an application that serves in the learning process of a language by means of music.
It is a site where users can listen to songs while filling the gaps in the lyrics, typing the whole lyrics, or singing a karaoke. It stops when you are having trouble and accepts only correct answers.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By singing and listening to a song, following lyrics, and filling the gaps these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Listening Speaking ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Pronunciation
Link: https://es.lyricstraining.c om
2. Breaking News English Features: Description:
It is a site where users can listen or read news.
Breaking News English is a website that serves the This website has audios learning process by with British and American listening or reading news. accent, and users can listen The website has sources for all type of levels of english, from very beginners to very advanced learners
to the audios in different levels of speed. They also include some exercises like matching, true or false, and filling the blanks.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By listening news and doing some of the exercises, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Listening Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Grammar
Link: https://breakingnewsengl ish.com/
3. Culips Features: Description: Culips is a website that serves the learning process by listening or reading podcast.
It is a site where users can listen to podcasts, but it also includes the transcription of the podcast . The speed can be adjusted to the level of learners. It also includes some exercises.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By listening podcast, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○
Listening ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Grammar
Link: https://www.culips.com/
4. ELS video Features: Description: ELS video is an website that serves the learning process by watching videos.
It is a site where users can watch videos that are taken from Youtube and make a quiz. In this website teachers can choose a video and create a quiz, or even he/she can use one of the platform. In addition, the speed can be adjusted to the level of the learners since it has videos and quizzes from learners A1 to C1. Another remarkable aspect is that subtitles can be added.
Teaching-Learning Skills:
Link:
https://www.eslvideo.co By watching videos, these m/ skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Listening Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Grammar
5. My Storybook Description:
Features:
My Storybook is an application that serves the learning process by creating writings as short stories.
It is a site where users can write their own short stories using pictures from the platform or users can even upload pictures or draw them. The application allows to publish the stories online for free.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By writing an own story of by reading the one from others, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://www.mystorybook.com
6. Scribbl Description:
Features:
Scribbl is an application that serves the learning process by creating drawings based on vocabulary terms or sentences.
It is a site where users can draw words or sentences. The application allows to give the user a random term, or it is possible to create an own set of words or sentences.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By drawing a word or a sentence, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Speaking Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://skribbl.io/
7. Match the Memory Description:
Features:
Math the Memory is an application that serves the learning process by creating memory games based on topics of an user’s choice.
It is a site where users can create their own memory games, or they can choose games from other users. The application allows to use pictures or sentences.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By playing memory games, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Speaking Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://matchthememory.com
8. SkELL Description:
Features:
Teaching-Learning Skills:
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SkELL is a website that serves in the learning process of a language by looking up for words.
It is a site where users can look up for short sentence examples of a word, synonyms or words used in similar contexts organized in a word cloud, and other words that usually occur together with the searched word.
By looking up for sentence examples, synonyms, words used in similar contexts, and words that frequently occur together with a word , these skills and micro-skills can be promoted:
https://skell.sketchengin e.co.uk/run.cgi/skell
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Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
9. Newsela Description:
Features:
Newsela is a website that serves in the learning process of a language by reading news articles.
It is a site where users can read news and articles that have been modified with simpler vocabulary to be used in the classroom.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By reading news articles these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://newsela.com/
10. YouGlish Description: YouGlish is a website that serves in the learning process of a language by searching for words and listening to videos.
Features: It is a site where users can search for a word and listen to a video with the word used by native English speakers. It is also possible to check the phonetics of the word, and some tips to improve the pronunciation of the searched word. The user can choose among American, British, and Australian English. Moreover, the videos include subtitles .
Teaching-Learning Skills: By listening to a video, reading the subtitles, checking the phonetics of a word and different tips of pronunciation these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○ ○ ○
Listening Speaking Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Spelling
Link: https://youglish.com/pro nounce/sun/english
11. Blogspot Description: Blogspot is a website that serves in the learning process of a language by writing different pieces of information.
Features: It is a site where users can write different pieces of information. Since it is a blog, people can explore other ways of writing.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By writing pieces of information these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Punctuation ◦ Spelling
Link: https://draft.blogger.com/ dashboard/reading
12. Quizlet Description: Quizlet is an application that serves in the learning process of a language by searching for new vocabulary.
Features: It is a site where users can practice before a test, study for standardized exams, and practice vocabulary. People can also practice pronunciation by reading the different words.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By studying and reading the flashcards these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Speaking Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Spelling
Link: https://quizlet.com/es
13. Kahoot Description: Kahoot is a website that serves in the learning process of a language by creating quizzes and making it fun to learn.
Features: It is a site where users can create quizzes so that students can practice before a test, study for standardized exams, and practice vocabulary.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By doing the quizzes these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○
Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Grammar ◦ Spelling
Link: https://kahoot.it/
14. Storybird Description:
Features:
Storybird is an application that serves in the learning process of a language by writing and reading stories, comics, and poems
It is a site where users can create interactive and artistic books, comics, and poems with the use of creative images and unique illustrations. It includes challenges, online courses, and feedback.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By writing or reading others’ works these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://storybird.com/
15. Gartic Description: Gartic is a website that serves in the learning process by creating drawings based on vocabulary.
Features: It is a site where users can draw and guess terms. It includes multiple colors and brushes, hints, a chat, and even a “justice” button in case someone is cheating.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By drawing and guessing a word, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Writing Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://gartic.io/
16. Factile Description: Factile is an application that serves in the learning process by creating engaging quiz games and promoting formative assessment.
Features: It is a site where users can play games (classic memory, jeopardy-style, multiple choice), and use or share online flashcards in order to review concepts.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By studying and reviewing the topics through the diverse game options, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○ ○ ○
Writing Speaking Listening Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://www.playfactile.c om/
17. Lingro Description:
Features:
It is a site where users can Lingro is a free enter a link and make all of multilingual dictionary the words on that page and a language learning clickable for definitions site. and translation. When users click on a word, this site will display the word’s definition and its translation to other languages.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By reading and understanding the meaning of the words, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Writing Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling
Link: https://lingro.com/
18. Baamboozle Description: Baamboozle is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to the lessons.
Features: It is a site where teachers can find and create the most interactive games to study and review orally a topic already seen in class.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By studying and reviewing orally the topics seen in class, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○ ○
Reading Listening Speaking ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Grammar
Link: https://www.baamboozl e.com/games
19. Scratch Description: Scratch is a platform that allows students and teachers to program interactive stories, games and animations.
Features: It is a site where teachers and students can easily create animated stories and games and share them with others.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By creating animations and telling stories, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Listening Speaking ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Grammar
Link: https://scratch.mit.edu/
20. Storyline Online Description: Storyline Online is a web page that contains plenty of stories narrated in animated videos.
Features:
Teaching-Learning The site has different kinds Skills: of stories with distinct approaches, so there is a huge variety of vocabulary.
By watching and listening the stories, following the subtitles, and getting the It also provides the subtitle word’s meanings in option to ease the illustrations these skills and comprehension of the micro-skills can be stories. promoted: The video stories are for free, and from this page you can buy the books in its physical form if you want.
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Listening reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling Speaking ◦ Pronunciation
Link: https://www.storylineonli ne.net/
21. Wonderopolis Description: Wonderopolis.org is a web page in which students can learn a wide variety of facts and interesting topics in english to enrich different aspects of the english learning process.
Features:
Teaching-Learning The layout of the webpage Skills: is easy to understand.
It provides readings with fruitful vocabulary and key words to learn. It gives references to videos related to the topic you are reading . It also contains quick quizzes to answer.
By watching, listening and reading the content of the the selected topic, learning the meaning of the the key words, and writing the answers of the provided quizzes, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Listening ◦ Pronunciation reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling
Link: https://www.wonderopoli s.org/
22. TED-ED Description: It is a site that offers a wide variety of videos about different topics with enrichful vocabulary. Each video has different activities to develop.
Features: The videos not only contain new vocabulary to learn, but also the subtitle options to see the word’s spelling pattern and to understand the speaker in a better way. Each video has close and open answer questions for the students to test their acquired knowledge. It also provides a “learn more” option to read more content of the topics, and questions to discuss in class
Teaching-Learning Skills: By watching, listening and reading the features that the videos provide, replying the questions, and discussing the provided questions, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
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Listening Speaking ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Fluency reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling
Link: https://ed.ted.com/
23. Poli Everywhere Description: It is an online web that allows teachers to ask their students a question. The students answer the question using their mobile phones, Twitter, or web browsers. Both the question and the students' responses are displayed live in Keynote, PowerPoint, and/or on the web.
Features: By using this app, teachers can create polls for incoming beliefs, preconceived ideas, and pre-existing knowledge to get a sense of what students already know and think about the topic seen. Teachers can create assessments, group work and peer review sessions, review assigned readings, and so on.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By watching, listening and reading the content of the the selected topic, answering questions, having quizzes, assessments, and so on. these skills and micro-skills can be promoted ○ ○ ○
Listening Writing Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling
Link: https://www.polleverywh ere.com/
24. BookWidgets Description: It is an easy-to-use platform for creating interactive exercises like exit slips, games, timelines, photo- and video-based activities, and more.
Features: By using this app, teachers can create a lot of different types of interactive content. There are for around 40 different widgets you can create that can be shared through a link, a QR code, an email, and Google Classroom. Simple assessments you can integrate include exit slips, quizzes, and worksheets, flash cards, puzzles, or games such as hangman or bingo.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By reading the content of the the selected topic, answering questions, having quizzes, assessments, and so on. these skills and micro-skills can be promoted ○ ○ ○
Listening ◦ Pronunciation Writing ◦ Vocabulary Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling
Link: https://www.bookwidgets .com/
25. Explain Everything Description: It is great for creating content and sharing it. The tools are simple and intuitive and allow teachers to choose presentations without problems. It is versatile since it allows the export of files in different formats.
Features: By using this app, students can exchange ideas, share projects or make group presentations. It helps to optimize teamwork. Teachers can allow students to explore their strengthen, leadership, and collaboration skills by giving them the tools to create and share their own tutorials, animated stories, and presentations.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By watching, listening and reading, ans speaking the content of the the selected topic, answering questions, having quizzes, assessments, and so on. these skills and micro-skills can be promoted ○ ○
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Listening Speaking ◦ Pronunciation ◦ Fluency Writing Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling
Link: https://explaineverything. com/
26. Edpuzzle Description: It is a website in which you can choose any video and edit it to turn it into an academic video that suits perfectly for any of your classes.
Features: You can have track of how many times your students watch the videos and if understand the topic. You can add music to the videos, your own voice, and even questions to turn them into interactive videos.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By watching the interactive videos, students can improve their performance in: â—‹ â—‹
Listening Reading
Link: https://edpuzzle.com/
27. International Dialects of English Archive Description: It is a website containing audios of native speakers of every English dialect that you can imagine.
Features: The website has audios of native speakers as well as the written transcription of their speech. It also contains a general profile of the speaker and information about their place of residency to take into account while analyzing the accent.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By listening to native speakers audios students can enhance their performance in: ○
Listening ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation
Link: https://www.dialectsarchi ve.com/
28.Socrative Description: It is an app that allows teachers to create exercises and educational games.
Features: You can create different types of activities, even personalized ones for certain students. The app provides instant feedback from students so you can adapt the following activities based on their recommendations.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By completing the activities, students can improve their performance on: ○ ○ ○
Listening Reading ◦ Vocabulary Writing ◦ Spelling
Link: https://www.socrative.co m/
29.Storyboard That Description:
Features:
With this web page, Storyboard That is a teachers can create web page to create storyboards to use in any storyboards to bring your topic! It includes a large lessons to life. variety of images of scenarios such as houses, transportation, school, work, sports, characters, from adults, teens, kids, to medieval people and monsters, and more. It also includes a template and instructions, so it is very easy to use.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By using these storyboards to provide visual content, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○
Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Reading comprehension ◦ Grammar
Link: https://www.storyboardth at.com/storyboard-creat or
30.Unite for Literacy Description: Unite for Literacy is a web page full of online and free books for students to read or even listen to the many stories featured in the site.
Features: The site counts with many online and free books for the students to read. There is no need to create an account, just click on any book you like and enjoy the story. There is an audio-book feature in which students can listen to the stories as well. It includes many different categories with different books, and topics for everybody.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By reading these books and using the audio features as listening activities, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○
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Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Reading comprehension ◦ Grammar Listening ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation
Link: https://www.uniteforlitera cy.com/
31.Games to learn English Description: Games to Learn English is a web page full of many games to reinforce the learning of the language in a fun and dynamic way.
Features: The site counts with a great variety of games for many different topics, such as tenses, phrasal verbs, conditionals, prepositions and vocabulary for topics like jobs, food, days of the week, months of the year, clothes, weather, and more. It also includes an option to choose different levels (beginner, medium, and advanced) so that every student can participate.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By playing these games the student will have a more fun and dynamic class, and these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○
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Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Grammar Listening ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Pronunciation Writing ◦ Grammar
Link: https://www.gamestolear nenglish.com/
32. WordPress Description:
Features:
Wordpress is a website platform for teachers and students to access and create websites in alternative and creative ways.
The site allows users to create different types of websites such as blogs, e-commerce, business, portfolios, forums, events, and e-learning. The websites are highly customisable and intuitive with the users.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By creating websites these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Punctuation ◦ Spelling
Link: https://wordpress.com
33. BrainPop Description: BrainPop is an educational website that contains animated videos, quizzes, games, and more for teachers and students,
Features: The site allows users to access to learning games, animated movies, and activities. The website supports teachers by offering learning tools designed for different settings. The site covers universal topics which help students to involve in a global vision.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By studying and reviewing the topics with the use of games and quizzes, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○ ○ ○
Writing Speaking Listening Reading ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://www.brainpop.co m/
34. Planet EBook Description: Planet EBook is website from which you can download classic literature ebooks.
Features:
Teaching-Learning All the e- books are free for Skills: downloading so it is an accessible website to obtain material for reading projects. All the e-books are in English.
By reading the students can expand their vocabulary as well as become familiar with other grammatical structures. At the same time these e-books could be used for extensive reading projects. ● ● ●
Reading comprehension Writing summaries Vocabulary acquisition
Link: https://www.planetebook .com/ebooks/
35. Blogger Description: Blogger is website in which you can post pieces of writing.
Features: The only requirement is to create an account using Gmail, and the platform allows you not only to post pieces of writing but also to add images, video and more. It also allows anyone that has a Blogger account to comment each post.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By writing the students use all their knowledge in terms of spelling, grammatical structures, punctuation and vocabulary. In addition, it could be used for reading comprehension and critical thinking. ● ● ●
Writing blogs and critical comments. Reading comprehension Vocabulary Acquisition
Link: https://www.blogger.com /about/?bpli=1
36. Fishbowl Description:
Features:
Fishbowl is website in which students can play a three round game that consists of taboo, charades, and password. It can be played without any need to pay nor sign up, without the need to share screen (although a video call is necessary), and it even works to play remotely.
The app allows teachers to plan vocabulary practice in an interactive way that engages the students. The words to be used (avoided in the case of the taboo round) are set by the players themselves, which allows for review of specific topics; for example, grocery shopping related vocabulary.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By playing the three vocabulary games, the students can put to a test their vocabulary knowledge about a specific topic while practicing speaking (pronunciation) in a fun and competitive way; which promotes the following micro-skills: ●
Speaking ○ Vocabulary ○ Pronunciation
Link: https://fishbowl-game.com
37. Pinturillo 2 Description:
Features:
Pinturillo 2 is an application that serves the learning process by allowing the students to test their vocabulary knowledge by trying to guess words based on a drawing.
The app allows teachers to plan vocabulary practice in an interactive way that engages the students.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By drawing and guessing, the students can test their vocabulary knowledge in a fun way; promoting the following micro-skills ●
Reading ○ Vocabulary ○ Spelling ○ Grammar
Link: https://www.pinturillo2.com
38. Adobe Spark Description:
Features:
Adobe Spark is an online graphic design app that allows its users to create graphics. The application allows for entirely custom designs, but it also offers predetermined templates and images to choose from.
The app allows teachers to create both flashcards and presentation slides in a more By creating graphic slides and graphic manner than other flashcards, the teacher can similar apps allow for. These promote the following skills: tools can be used for ● Reading numerous purposes, like ○ Vocabulary using the slides to explain, or ○ Spelling using flashcards to play ○ Grammar charades.
Teaching-Learning Skills:
Link: https://spark.adobe.com/
39. Edmodo Description:
Features:
Edmodo is an app in which teachers and students can communicate private and collaboratively.
Edmodo allows students to access to multiple resources like audios, videos, links, word documents, etc by singing in. This app supports teachers by sharing diverse educational materials in which students can apply what they have learned.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By watching videos, listening to audios, reading documents, and writing paragraphs, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○ ○
Speaking Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://new.edmodo.com/
40. Nearpod Description: Nearpod is an interactive application in which teachers and students participate in a collaborative lesson.
Features:
Teaching-Learning Nearpod helps educators Skills: to do any type of lesson in both virtual and presencial classrooms by sharing questionnaires, pictures, polls, etc. It allows students to participate at the same time, and receive immediate feedback.
By reading texts, writing opinions, drawing, or completing quizzes, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
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Link: https://nearpod.com/
41. Quizizz Creator Description: Quizizz Creator is an online tool that allows students and teachers to use and create quizzes creatively.
Features: Quizizz provides students with a unique access code for they to complete a quiz presented live as timed competition or used for homework, which is created by the teacher.
Teaching-Learning Skills: By reading texts, and writing paragraphs or sentences, these skills and micro-skills can be promoted: ○ ○
Reading Writing ◦ Vocabulary ◦ Spelling ◦ Grammar
Link: https://quizizz.com/admin
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