off- line tools

Hi again ! I have created a list of different off-line tools that we can use in our classes with some possible activities.


Word office: Most of you probably know this tool. It is very useful for lots of activities. For example, you can create a worksheet where you ask your students to do the typical fill-in the gaps in which they may or may not have some options to choose from.

Power point: An activity that I love creating with this tool is a Jeopardy game to make a revision of different topics.

A dictionary CD: Teaching students how to use dictionaries is very important. You can work on a text and instead of clarifying your students the unknown words, you can ask them to look them up in groups and try to find the definitions that fit those contexts.
Depending on the type of dictionary, Some of those CDs also offer pictures and extra activities that can be done in order to improve writing skills and pronunciation.

Movie Maker: this is a great and easy tool to use to create videos. When students work on a project, you may ask them to create a video as a final outcome. They may include images, songs, texts and even record their own voices.

Encyclopedia CD: Even though this tool is quite old fashioned, it is great to get your students search for certain information. When there is no internet connection and they need to complete an activity they may resort to an encyclopedia to work. For example, If you are working with cultures and nationalities,  you may want your students to find differences, similarities, typical activities, etc. and for that they will definitely need to make some research on the culture of different countries.


iBooks: This book store is perfect to have PDFs for offline reading. Teachers may ask students to work in groups with specific texts and make notes, highlight passages that they may want to share later, find specific words or phrases anywhere in the book with a built-in search, etc. This tool is great to work with when reading short stories or novels.