Word Wizard

Play with words and have fun!

Interactive activity which helps students' critical thinking and problem solving as well as listening comprehension and spelling skills. Students  use clues to identify words from a list of scrambled letters. 

Click on the image to go to the site.

London 2012: Facts and figures

Olympics 2012 in London

Diagram by LondonTown.com

Do you want to find more about it? Here you are.
Or download the media pack.

Homework, for or against?

French primary schools saw homework banned in 1956. Only recently, LeMonde.fr  published an article about this old debate which is now gaining force again due to a strike called by certain Parent's Association. It seems that besides being tiresome and boring, homework  is a source of inequalities for children who do not have neither the time nor the help to do them and creates problems and stress for both children an parents.

On the other side of the argument, we read just a few days ago on theguardian.co.uk  that  "Two hours' homework a night is linked to better school results," or so it shows a study published by the Department for Education.

More than just reading

We Tell Stories -Digital fiction from Penguin- is not just another interactive tool for students and teachers. It is one of the most attractive I have ever used. You and your students can read fiction and classics and contribute to  the construction of the plot. A funny and interesting way of practicing reading skills.
Click here to continue the story on the Peasant's daughter Molly.

Build a body, learn and have fun

Are you a future doctor, a nurse, a teacher or just someone eager to learn about your body. Here you have the perfect tool: spongelab.com Choose between the respiratory, skeletal, digestive, nevous, excretory or ciculatory system and a number of case studies ranging from celiac disease, cirrhosis, fused vertebrae or find out which is the longest bone or play the head game.

Celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens

"My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time, - they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii, - and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me; I knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and blunderings over heavier themes, to read those books as I did." From David Copperfield By Charles Dickens



Video  and lesson plans by British Council
More about the author and works