Monday, April 21, 2014

GoAnimate

GoAnimate is a interesting website which allows users to create their own comic. In this website, there are a lot of themes, like business, comedy world, wildlife, etc. You can choose characters according to your theme. Then, after you choose your characters, you should type their conversations that you make. After these two steps, your own comic is finished. It's really easy and funny. I made my own comic Relatives or friends . I think the comic can help beginning-level English learners learn some basic conversations like "what is your name", "nice to meet you" and some easy vocabularies like Zebra and Giraffe. In addition, the comic is really cute and the conversation is easy and interesting, so I think children will like it. Therefore, teachers can use this tool for their teaching. Specifically, we can make comics according to our teaching contents, in other words, we turn or add teaching contents to conversations, and choose relevant scenes and characters.

Although it may be not suitable for teaching complex and sophisticated knowledge, for beginning learners or intermediate learners, it's interesting and useful. Students can be easily attracted, so it's better than just telling them boring grammar or vocabularies. Even for advanced learners, it's still a good method to learn and relax.

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