Verbling

Verbling - Learn a New Language in a Google+ Hangout:

Verbling is a language learning service that launched back in July. When it launched its purpose was to match native speakers of Spanish and English to help each other learn a new language. Since then it has added support for French, Italian, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, and Russian.

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Phrasal verb: to pass off

O verbo to pass tem sempre um significado de passar, ocorre, acontecer e hoje vamos ver como é usado o phrasal verb to pass off.
Se algo passes off well ou badly, tal evento acontece dessa maneira:

• The visit passed off without any serious incidents. [A visita aconteceu sem qualquer incidente sério.]
• The protest march passed off without any serious trouble. [A marcha de protesto aconteceu sem nenhum problema sério.]

To pass off também é usado quando você se faz passar por alguém ou quando tenta vender ou passar algo como algo que não é:

• They bought up pieces of old furniture and passed them off as valuable antiques. [Compraram uns móveis velhos e os vendi como antiguidades valiosas.]
• He passed himself off as a doctor. [E se fez passar por médico.]
• He put on an old blue suit, intending to pass himself off as a businessman. [Ele colocou um terno azul velho, pretendendo se passar de homem de negócios.]
• The watches are fakes, but they tried to pass them off as genuine Rolexes. [Os relógios são falsos, mas tentaram vendê-los como genuínos Rolex.]

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Readers Theater All Year

Readers Theater All Year™ provides an inexpensive, easy, flexible system to help teachers and parents build leaders and creators in a caring community.

Website: http://www.readerstheaterallyear.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReadersTheaterAllYear

Quipper - Quizzes on Android and iOS

Quipper is a free tool for creating quizzes to be taken on iPhones, on Android tablets, and on Android phones. Quipper quizzes are multiple choice activities created by the community of users. As a Quipper quiz creator you can make your quizzes public or private.

Build-a-body

Build-a-Body é uma ferramenta on-line de aprendizagem (em Inglês) que permite explorar o corpo humano de forma virtual e alargar os nossos conhecimentos de anatomia.

Ao entrar no site, existe um desenho de um corpo humano ao qual podemos acrescentar os órgãos dos diversos sistemas. Basta arrastar cada órgão para o seu respetivo lugar.

O desafio é tentar "arrumar" todos os órgãos nos sítios corretos.

 

Aprenda os verbos irregulares de uma vez por todas!

Hey, there!

e-book: Aprenda os verbos irregulares de uma vez por todas!
Neste material estão agrupados os verbos irregulares que têm o infinitivo, o past simple e o past participle semelhates.

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1. A letra D vira T.
bend – bent – bent (curvar-se)

build – build – built (construir)

lend – lent – lent (emprestar)

send – sent – sent (enviar, mandar)

spend – spent – spent (gastar)

2. Verbos have e make
have \ has – had – had (ter)

make – made – made (fazer)

3. Terminação regular no inglês americano e irregular no inglês britânico
burn – burned \ burnt – burned \ burnt (queimar)

dwell – dwelled \ dwelt – dwelled \ dwelt (morar)

learn – learned \ learnt – learned \ learnt (aprender)

smell – smelled \ smelt – smelled \ smelt (cheirar)

spell – spelled \ spelt – spelled \ spelt (soletrar)

spill – spilled \ spilt – spilled \ spilt (derramar – liquido)

spoil – spoiled \ spoilt – spoiled \ spoilt (estragar)

4. Terminação AY vira AID.
lay – laid – laid (colocar, pôr)

pay – paid – paid (pagar)

say – said – said (dizer)

5. EE + consoante (p, d, l, t) EPT
creep – crept – crept (rastejar)

feed – fed – fed (alimentar)

feel – felt – felt (sentir)

keep – kept – kept (manter)

leave – left – left (deixar, partir)

meet – met – met (encontrar, conhecer)

sleep – slept – slept (dormir)

sweep – swept – swept (varrer)

weep – wept – wept (chorar)

6. Pronúncia diferente da mesma vogal – terminação em D ou T.
deal – dealt – dealt (lidar)

dream – dreamed \ dreamt – dreamed \dreamt (sonhar)

hear – heard – heard (ouvir)

leap – leapt – leapt (pular)

mean – meant – meant (significar,querer)

read – read – read (ler)

7. ELL vira OLD
sell – sold – sold (vender)

tell – told – told (contar, dizer)

8. Terminações OUGHT ou AUGHT
bring – brought – brought (trazer)

buy – bought – bought (comprar)

catch – caught – caught (pegar)

fight – fought – fought (lutar)

seek – sought – sought (lutar)

teach – taught – taught (ensinar)

think – thought – thought (pensar)

9. As três formas são iguais
bet – bet – bet (apostar)

bid – bid – bid (fazer lance)

broadcast – broadcast – broadcast (transmitir)

burst – burst – burst (estourar)

cost – cost – cost (custar)

cut – cut – cut (cortar)

fit – fit – fit (caber)

hit – hit – hit (acertar, bater)

hurt – hurt – hurt (machucar)

let – let – let (deixar, permitir)

put – put – put (colocar)

quit – quit – quit (parar, deixar)

set – set – set (fixar)

shut – shut – shut (fechar)

spread – spread – spread (espalhar)

10. Letra O (som longo) + terminação em –en
awake – awoke – awoken (acordar)

break – broke – broken (quebrar)

choose – chose – chosen (escolher)

freeze – froze – frozen (congelar)

speak – spoke – spoken (falar)

steal – stole – stolen (roubar)

wake – woke – woken (acordar)

weave – wove – woven (tecer)

A segunda parte vem na próxima semana!
Take care!

Humor in English: parents texting!

Guys, I found these funny messages of parents texting their kids and I had to share them with you, you guys are going to crack up!

Three Ring App

Three Ring is a new free service offering free Android and iPhone apps for digitizing and organizing student work. Using the app teachers can take a picture of a student's work, upload it to a free Three Ring account and organize it.

A short video overview:

Survs

O Survs é uma aplicação gratuita o qual colaborativamente permite a construção, disponibilização e análise dos dados ou informação obtida através de inquéritos.

Outra das características da aplicação, consiste na possibilidade de partilhar os resultados obtidos, templates e estilos gráficos dos seus inquéritos. Na globalidade é uma ferramenta muito simples e prática facilitando assim a sua utilização por parte dos utilizadores.

O Survs, destina-se essencialmente a pequenas médias e grandes organizações, escolas, professores, alunos e centro de formação ou mesmo de investigação.  

A ferramenta apresenta vários planos de utilização, sendo que a gratuita apresenta algumas limitações no entanto tem a capacidade de suportar 10 questões e número de respostas rondam as 200.

Em termos de compatibilidades, esta aplicação está otimizada para o Internet Explorer 6, 7 ou 8, Firefox 2 ou mais, Safari 3 ou mais e Chrome 1 ou mais.

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As partes do corpo e seus verbos, in English!

Hey, there! How’ve you been?

Hoje vamos revisar as partes do corpo em inglês e alguns verbos associados a elas.

Head (cabeça): to shake; to nod

Shake your head from side to side. [Balance a cabeça de um lado para o outro.]

I need you all to nod your heads if you understand. [Preciso que vocês façam sim com a cabeça se entenderam.]

Ear (ouvido): to listen; to hear

Listen up! [Escuta!]

I hope you can hear what I am saying. [Espero que você consiga ouvir o que estou dizendo.]

Eye (olho): to see; to watch; to observe

Do you see the bird? [Está vendo aquele pássaro?]

Let’s watch TV. [Vamos assistir TV.]

He observes the animals before taking pictures. [Ele observa os animais antes de tirar fotos.]

Mouth (boca): to chew; to talk; to kiss

Chew your food well before you swallow. [Mastigue bem a comida antes de engolir.]

I talk to my friend every day. [Converso com meu amigo todos os dias.]

Kiss me! [Me beije!]

Neck (pescoço): to bend

Can you bend your neck so your head touches your shoulder? [Consegue dobrar o pescoço para sua cabeça tocar seu ombro?]

Shoulder (ombro): to shrug

When the children don’t understand they shrug their shoulders. [Quando as crianças não entendem elas encolhem seus ombros.]

Chest (peito): to cough

He was coughing so hard his chest hurt. [Ele tossía tanto que seu peito estava doendo.]

Stomach (estômago): to digest; to growl

I can’t eat dinner, I’m still digesting lunch. [Não consigo jantar, ainda estou digerindo o almoço.]

My stomach is growling, I’m so hungry. [Meu estômiago está roncando, estou com muita fome.]

Arms (braços): to bend; to lift

Can you bend your arm behind your back? [Você consegue dobrar seu braço até as costas?]

How much weight can you lift? [Quanto peso você consegue levantar?]

Elbow (cotovelo): to bend

Bend your elbow and place your hand over your heart to say the pledge of allegiance to the flag. [Dobre seu cotovelo e coloque sua mão no coração para jurar amor à bandeira.]

Wrist (punho, pulso): to bend; to flex

Bend and flex your wrists to relax them after that last Yoga position. [Dobre e flexione seu punho para relaxá-los depois da última posição de yoga.]

Hand (mão): to wave; to shake

Wave good-bye to your grandmother. [Dê adeus à sua avó.]

People in the United States shake hands when they first meet. [As pessoas nos Estados Unidos dão as mãos quando se encontram pela primeira vez.]

Finger (dedo): to point

Can you point to which piece of jewelry you would like me to take out of the case? [Você pode apontar a joia que você que eu tire do estojo?]

Leg (perna): to walk; to run

I go for a walk every day. [Vou correr todos os dias.]

I like to run in marathons. [Gosto de correr em maratonas.]

Knee (joelho): to bend; to kneel

I have to bend my knees up to my chest to fit into this small seat. [Tenho que dobrar os joelhos até o peito para caber nesse lugarzinho.]

People often kneel down to pray. [As pessoas frequentemente se ajoelham para rezar.]

Foot (pé): to step

Step over the sleeping dog. [Passe por cima do cachorro que está dormindo.]

Toes (dedos do pé): to curl; to tip-toe

It is so cute when the baby curls his toes after you tickle his foot. [É muito bonitinho quando um bebê dobra os dedos do pé quando fazemos cócega nele.]

We have to be quiet, so please tip-toe into the room. [Temos que ficar quietos, então entre no quarto na ponta do pé.]

Albert Einstein's Library Online

Albert Einstein's documents and drawings are now available to view for free at Einstein Archives Online.

English for Marketing and Business

Advanced level English learners can practice their business and marketing English with this role play and comprehension that focuses on company changes and social media marketing followed by a vocabulary section with new expressions and a follow-up quiz.

Here are further business reading and role play selections to help you improve English for a variety of professions.

Business Jargon
Deliveries and Suppliers
Taking a Message
Placing an Order
How to Use an ATM
Funds Transfer
Sales Terminology
Looking for a Bookkeeper
Hardware Deductions
WebVisions Conference
Tomorrow's Meeting
Happy Shareholders

Graph Words - An Instant Visual Thesaurus

Graph Words is a neat little site that provides webs of related words.
Your webs can be downloaded as a PNG image:

Watch Videos & Discuss Them in Real-time

These are three ways to watch videos and discuss them in real-time online.

Synchtube allows you to Create public and private rooms and share music, videos, and more, synchronized! Turn your room into a automated TV station, 24/7 radio station, or a simple hangout!

Watch2gether is a web-site that allows you to watch videos together with your friends. Just create a room and invite your friends by sending them the invitation link. It's free, requires no registration and it's great fun!

Google+ Hangouts provides the option to watch YouTube videos with a small group.

Como usar o verbo “ought to”

Hi, there!

O verbo ought to muitas vezes é neglicenciado nos livros e hoje vou resolver esse problema para você, ok?

• Ought to é um modal verb então ele não tem infinitivo (lembra de to go? o to indica o infinitivo), não é conjugado na forma -ing e não leva -s na terceira pessoa do singular (he, she e it).

I ought to go now. [Devo ir agora.]

She ought to understand. [Ela deveria entender.]

• Nas perguntas e negativas geralmente não usamos do, does, don’t e doesn’t.

Ought we to go now? [Devemos ir agora?]

It oughtn’t to take much longer. [Não deve demorar muito tempo.]

You ought not to go. [Você não deveria ir.]

• Embora seja um modal verb, ought to é seguido de um infinitivo com to.

You ought to see a dentist. [Você deveria ir ao dentista.]

Uso

1. Ought to é usado para dizer que achamos que algo é provável (pois parece normal ou lógico).

“We’re spending the winter in Bariloche.” “That ought to be nice.” ["Vamos passar o inverno em Bariloche." "Vai/Deve ser legal."]

Henry ought to be here soon – he left home at six. [O Henry deve chegar logo - ele saiu de casa às seis.]

2. Ought to também é usado para impor e perguntar sobre obrigação, para aconselhar alguém (inclusive você mesmo) a fazer algo ou dizer que alguém tem o dever de fazer algo ou perguntar sobre o dever de alguém.

What time ought I to arrive? [Que horas devo chegar?]

I really ought to call Mom. [Tenho mesmo que ligar para a mamãe.]

You ought to be more careful. [Você tem que ser mais cuidadoso.]

People ought not to drive like that. [As pessoas não deveriam dirigir assim.]

Nos dois sentidos acima, ought to tem um sentido semelhante a should. Lembre-se de que ought to e should são formas mais suaves de must, que indica uma obrigação maior. Veja alguns exemplos:

That must be Henry. [Deve ser o Henry. - Tenho certeza de que é o Henry.]

That ought to be Henry. [Deve ser o Henry. - Há uma razão para que eu ache que é o Henry.]

You must tell the police. [Você tem que contar para a polícia. - obrigação, forte conselho]

You ought to tell the police. [Você deveria contar para a polícia - conselho]

Usamos os advérbios always, never e really com ought to.

You always ought to carry some spare money. [Você sempre deveria levar consigo um trocado. - mais informal]

You ought always to carry some spare money. [mais formal]

This is it for today! See you tomorrow and have a great one!

Matt Damon defends teachers

10 Awesome Android Uses and Apps for Education

This is a short presentation on Android apps for education.

10 awesome android uses and apps

50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

Recently I've been experimenting with a number of curation sites that are beneficial for creating and sharing lists. While exploring these tools, I've been "fine tuning" my Web 2.0 list for schools. I created a list of 25 Web 2.0 sites for education over a year ago -- but a lot has changed since then. More sites have been developed and more tools are available to students and educators than ever before.This list is in alphabetical order.

50 Web 2.0 Sites for Schools

1. 19 Pencils - 19Pencils is the easiest way for teachers to discover, share and manage web-based educational content with students. A teacher can create quizzes, websites, track students, and more.
2. ACMI Generator - This is a great site for older students for digital storytelling and creating a storyboard scene with a script.
3. Animoto - Create wonderful looking slideshows that includes, video, images, music, and more.
4. Aviary Education - A safe private environment to use Aviary's suite of online tools for: audio, video, and image editing.
5. Boom Writer - BoomWriter is a supremely engaging creative writing website that has students reading, writing and assessing content in ways they’ve never done before!
6. Classtell - A nice site for teachers to create an educational website.
7. Diigo - Social bookmarking for teachers where they can create free student accounts.
8. Dropbox - A great way to share and collaborate on documents on a number of different electronic devices.
9. Edmodo - A wonderful safe/secure learning environment for teachers and students. A nice all-in-one solution for education.
10. Educaplay - A excellent way to create interactive multimedia educational activities.
11. Every1Speaks - A learning platform where students learn through collaborative enquiry-based learning.
12. Gaggle - A excellent suite of online learning tools for filtered: emailing, messaging, forums, and more.
13. Glogster - Creating collaborative and interactive posters in this safe environment. A wonderful and very popular web 2.0 tool.
14. GoAnimate - A terrific way to create custom animations with an educational portal.
15. Google Apps for Education - Does it really get much better than this?
16. Gnowledge - A wonderful site to create collaborative online quizzes, share resources, view others quizzes, and more. Excellent tech support and tutorial videos as well.
17. Grockit Answers - A great teaching tool to create a Q/A session for any YouTube video.
18. Kidblog - A fantastic way to create a safe environment for students to blog in. Everything is controlled by the teacher as a moderator.
19. Kerpoof - Lots of educational activities can be found here such as: make a movie, draw a picture, and more.
20. Kubbu - A free site for teachers to create games, quizzes, or crosswords and then share them with students and view/analyze their results.
21. Little Bird Tales - A wonderful free site for digital storytelling that allows kids to record and narrate their story.
22. Live Binders - Is an excellent site for creating an online binder to collect and share resources with others.
23. MentorMob - One of my favorite new sites for curating the web into learning "playlists." This is an innovative way to teach a lesson, unit, or any given topic.
24. Mixbook - A great site for digital storytelling in a safe environment. Educators get a discount on printed books.
25. Musicshake - Legal, copyright, free music for every student in your school - created by students, right from a browser.
26. Myths & Legends - One of the best free sites around for digital storytelling in a safe environment with lots of characters, themes, and objects to choose from.
27. PhotoPeach - An excellent site for creating slideshows and creating and managing student accounts.
28. PikiFriends - A fun safe environment for online pen pals for middle school and high school students.
29. Pixton - A great way to motivate students by creating digital stories using this comic creator.
30. PresentationTube - A nice windows app for creating presentations out of PowerPoint slides.
31. Prezi - A excellent site for creating zooming slideshows and presentations.
32. Primary Access - A free suite of online tools for students and teachers to create digital movies, storyboards, and other activities.
33. Primary Wall - A real-time collaboration tool that allows students and teachers to create a page of online sticky notes. Great for mind mapping and brainstorming!
34. Skype in the Classroom - A great collaboration tool for classrooms to video or audio chat with other educators and students.
35. SideVibe - Turn bookmarked web content into blended classroom lessons.
36. SlideRocket - All you need is a Google Apps account to use this free tool to creating stunning presentations.
37. SpellingCity - One of the best sites around for teaching and learning Spelling and Vocabulary. A very user-friendly and engaging site to use.
38. Storybird - A fantastic site to inspire students to read & write through the use of digital storytelling.
39. StoryJumper - A great site for digital storytelling where students can incorporate their own art, publish online, share with others, or order a print copy.
40. SymbalooEDU - A wonderful way to organize educational sites into one location for students.
41. Triptico - A great free tool for teachers to help create, share, and edit interactive lessons.
42. ToonDoo Spaces - Create a private and safe environment for digital storytelling through the use of an online comic.
43. VoiceThread - One of the most popular web 2.0 sites around for creating dynamic and interactive slideshows and presentations. Also, another great tool for digital storytelling.
44. Webspiration - From the creators of Inspiration comes this excellent web portal for creating mind maps, brainstorms, outlines, and more.
45. Weebly - Create a free class/student blog or website.
46. Wolfram Alpha - There is now an educational portal for Wolfram's computational search engine. This portal contains dynamic textbooks, lesson plans, widgets, interactives, and more.
47. Yacapaca - A nice free all-in-one solution for schools for creating quizzes, surveys, assessments, and more.
48. YouTube for Schools - Access 1000s of YouTube videos in a controlled environment without having to worry about comments.
49. Zimmer Twins - A great site for digital storytelling with an educational portal.
50. Zoho Wiki - A nice site for educators to create online interactive content.

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was published 1838. The story is about an orphan boy, Oliver Twist, who escapes from aworkhouse. The story tells about the cruel treatment of a large number of orphans in the Dickens era. Oliver escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of young pickpockets. Oliver is led to their criminal trainer Fagin. The story, set to music, shows us the life of the rich and the poor who lived in London in days gone by. Food, Glorious Food Is it worth the waiting for, if we live till eighty-four, all we ever get is  GRUEL. Everyday we say a prayermayor, will they change the bill of fairfare, still we get the same old  GRUEL There's not a crust, not a lumpcrumb can we find. Can we beg can we borrowsorrow or cadge. But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrillchill, when we all close our eyes and imagine. Food, glorious food. Hot porridgesausage and mustard. While we're in the mood, cold jelly and custard Peas pudding and saveloys. What next? Can I just mention.Is the question. Rich gentlemen have it, boys indigestionthat's the question! Food, glorious food, we're anxious to try it. Three banquetsblankets a day, our favorite diet! .Just picture a great big steakstake, fried, roasted or stewed. !Oh! Food, wonderful food, marvellousmarvelous food, glorious food     Food, glorious food, don't care what it looks like. Burned, underdone, crude, don't cares what the cook's like!    Just thinking of growing fat our sensessences go reeling. One moment of knowing that  full-up feeling! Food, glorious food. What wouldn't we give for. That extra bit more, that's all that we live for. Why should we be fated to, do nothing but brood Food, magical food, wonderful food, marvelous food, heavenly food, beautiful food, glorious food.     Oliver, Oliver sung by Mr. Bumble Oliver, Oliver. Never before has a boy wanted more.  Oliver, Oliver. Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store There's a dark, thin, winding stairway without any bannister Which we'll throw him down and feed him  kockroachescockroaches served in a canister Oliver, Oliver. What will he do when he's turned black and blue.  He will rue the day somebody named him Ol-i-ver Oliver, Oliver. Never before has a boy wanted more.   Oliver, Oliver. Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store There's a long, thin winding stairwaystareway without any bannister Which we'll throw him down and feed him cockroaches served in a canister Oliver, Oliver. What, heavens pray will the governors say They will lay the blamelay the shameon the one who named him…….. Ol-i-ver Boy For Sale One boy…. Boy for sale… He's going cheapcheep…. Only seven guineas... That -- or thereabouts. Fine boy... Boy for sale... He's yours to keep…. For one thousand pennyspennies… you can work it out     - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - I could say he isn't very greedy... I can not, I'd be telling you a taletail One boy…. Boy for salesail…..Come take a peep….Have you ever seen as nice, a boy, for sale. Where is love?  Where is love? Does it fall from skiesskys above? Is it underneath the willow tree, that I've been dreemingdreaming of? Where is she? Who I close my eyes to see? Will I ever know the sweet "hello" that's meantment for only me? Who can say where she may hide? Must I travel far and wide? 'Til I am beside the someone who, I can mean, something to ... Where……….? Where……. is love? Every night I neelkneel and play, let tomorrow be the day When I see the face of someone who, I can mean, something to ... Where……….? Where……. is love?             Consider Yourself  sung by DODGER  Consider yourself my ownat home.   Consider yourself one of the family. I've taken to you so strong.  It's clear we're going to get along. Consider yourself well in.  Consider yourself part of the furniture. There isn't a lot to spare.  Who cares?.. What ever we've got we shareshair! If it should chance to be, we should see, some harder days. Empty larder days. Why grouse? Always a-chance we'll meet, somebody to foot the bill. Then the drinks are on the housein the house! Consider yourself our mate. We don't want to have no fuss. For after some consideration, we can state... Consider yourself……. One of us! You've Got To Pick-A-Pocket    sung by FAGIN and the orphan boys You see, Oliver... In this life, one thing counts. In the bank, large accountsamounts I'm afraid these don't grow on treesfor free, you've got to pick-a-pocket or two You've got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys. You've got to pick-a-pocket or two BOYS: Large amounts don't grow on trees. You've got to pick-a-pocket or two. !FAGIN: Let's show Oliver how to do it!  dearsdeers……………..?

SyncSpace

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Knovio | Online Video Presentations Made Easy

Create: bring “flat” PowerPoint® slides to life with your webcam, microphone
Edit: make changes, without the need for video editing software or skills
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Whether for business, education or individual use, Knovio adds your personality and improves the effectiveness of any presentation.

Check This

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Check the video below to see how to create a webpage with Check This.

Puzzle Touch - Criar puzzles online

Puzzle Touch é uma ferramenta digital online gratuita, já premiada, que permite realizar puzzles de imagens e vídeos. O utilizador pode jogar com imagens já incluídas no site ou construir puzzles pessoais.