Cambridge Dictionary Online

We have to admit that the first impression this dictionary arises is not favourable as the homepage is little imaginative. However its simplicity makes the research easy, which can be an advantage.

Although some of the areas of the site have free access, many others, like the Teacher Zone, require a registration. We didn´t make the registration and so had no opportunity to evaluate those resources but, after going through the Student Zone, we felt it might worth it because we were positively impressed by them.

Among the resources there are more than Activities. We can find The Word of the Day, Data for Researchers, Topic Areas like Business, Clothes, Education, etc. Of course there's the possibility to buy dictionaries online. The catalogue shows a large list of dictionaries for sale: British English Dictionaries, American English Dictionaries, Bilingual Dictionaries.
In  the archive Dictionaries there are interesting links, too - Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary   and Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary, which include Worksheets and Infoquests.

The word staff was used to try the dictionary online and we got all the entries for the word and a link to VISUALTHESAURUS an interactive tool that allows us to discover, among other things, the connections between words. However, it is a trial version.
The folders for the students include four areas and we could open the archive Interchange Arcade, providing activities to review the learning. We also opened the students' book nº 2 and chose the article "Listen for the stress", where they can practise pronunciation. Another archive, Touchstone, has links to self-scoring activities. Different levels of learning can be chosen.

Very relevant it is the fact this site enables us to copy worksheets, tests, projects that we can use in our lessons. Moreover most of the materials are interesting and amusing and there's a great variety of activities.