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Most of the news sites have podcasting sections where you can download a whole range of news and a current affairs, as well as radio programs. ABC in Australia is one good podcasting site as can be found though Damn English http://www.damn-english.com/?p=254 which also has some mp3 downloads here ht...

These replies here are excellent. Really great response to a common problem. I completely agree with fluffyhamster but I'd also like to add that some quick, simple activities that you can reward the students for doing can help a lot. If you can make them feel good about something, their interest in ...

Hmm.. how about some kind of charades where the students have to write the answers on paper? Still its fun cause students will have to act, but you can control the noise, actually there won't be any noise. Just make a time limit for the actor, have a list of actors, and then at the end of ten actors...

Just motivate them to be interested in English. The only way to study well is to study a lot!

Well you've certainly got a lot of things on your site. I think its really useful to have online quizzes for students to do. I really like the idea of the quiz builder too. Nice work.

That looks really cool, I don't use the DVD drive much anyway.

I may be a bit late for this thread, but just wanted to comment on using Skype for teaching. I've used it a fair bit with one student before and found it to be a really great method for teaching. When the student's level is a little lower, its really useful to be able to type what you're saying for ...