<p style="text-align: justify;">Teachers who teach English as a foreign language use various tools in their lessons in order to motivate their students; among them we can mention the use of videos, songs, video games, among others, that conjugate or interrelate the verbal with the nonverbal code to consolidate meanings and representations; therefore, these didactic materials are constituted as multimodal texts. This is why the present article reflects on the importance of incorporating these new formats of texts in the teaching of English as a foreign language. It is expected that this work will contribute to understand that greater use should be made of audiovisual media, and not only privilege the use of the language code, as long as it is clear how to use them to ensure a meaningful teaching-learning process.</p>