Storytelling! ♥

Hi! Today I'm going to talk about storytelling! Yep, you can use storytelling in your language classes because everybody loves stories! You can use already existing stories, there are lots stories on the internet or you can create your stories using some tools like me and my friend Seden and Sevda did. We used Microsoft's Movie Maker but you can use Microsoft's Power Point, Photo Story or other tools that you find on the internet. Now I'll give more details about our story! First we created our story then we divided the parts and characters among us then it was time to record it! Well this time it was a failure because we bursted into laughter so many times any ruined the recordings. Finally we managed to record it as two separate parts and later combined them. Second, we had to create visuals for the video we found some photos and drew something then blend them using Adobe Photoshop. ^^ Third, we found music and sound effect suitable for the story and finally created a sound rich cute story! *-* To be honest it was a bit challenging but it was fun! We collaborated and saw how things works in a team task. I might not use it my lessons because it's hard to create a story! :D But I can use already existing ones! ^^   
Let's meet our story characters!

This is Ice Cream Princess!

 This is Ice Cream Princess' unicorn Buttercup!

This is Chili Pepper Joe! 

And finally this is Mr. Turtle!

Here the story we created is! Hope you like! ♥

Once upon a time in Sugar Land, there is a little girl called Ice cream Princess. She doesn't have any friends except from her unicorn Buttercup. Everybody finds her weird because of her passion about discovering other worlds. One day Ice Cream Princess and Buttercup decide to leave the country in pursuit of realizing their dreams. They take some food with them but after 3 days,they run out of food. They are hopeless and helpless.

Suddenly, they hear a sound! It is coming from bushes. They are at the edge of screaming but a Chili Pepper boy appear in that time. Seeing that they are helpless, he comes closer to Ice Cream Princess and says: Hi! My name is Chili Pepper Joe, I am a friend who comes from Chili Pepper Land. What's your name? Ice Cream Princess replies: Hi! My name is Ice Cream Princess and this is my unicorn Buttercup. We come from Sugar Land, we are looking for a place to live happily. Why are you here?
Chili Pepper Joe replies: I left my town, everybody looks down on me because I'm so tiny and I'm also looking for a place like you.
 
Chili Pepper Joe shares his food with them and they continue to walk together. suddenly they hear a sound and see an upturned turtle. Turtle says: "Oh, please can you help me? My feet are too short to turn." Ice Cream Princess and Chili Pepper Joe immediately help the turtle and turn him to together. Mr. Turtle: " Oh, thank you so much. Without you, I wouldn't be able to turn. I want to help you,too.  Chili Pepper Joe says: "You are welcome. We are looking for a place where we can live happily. Can you help us?" Mr. Turtle replies: That's easy, here take these tickets. I'm coming from there. The train will depart in 5 minutes from that stop." Suddenly a stop made up of candies appears. Ice Cream Princess and Chili Pepper Joe thank Mr. Turtle and go to the candy stop. They get on the train and they live happily ever after in Happyland! 

EnglishClass101.com ♥

http://www.englishclass101.com/

Hi! It's been a long time, isn't it? ^.^  Well, today I'm going to talk about EnglishClass101.com. It's an online website to learn English. You can find detailed information bout the website here. But I'm going to give a brief explanation about it anyway. Everyone who wants to learn English can use this site. *thumbs up* It has a huge team including 15 members. You can see the list here. 

First, you should create an account and activate it. Then you can start learning. At the beginning when you're joining the website you have to choose a level. I chose beginner level to show the process. There are 25 lesson in this level. The very first lesson begins with a greeting as usual. 

As you see, you can download audios and materials. 





There is a vocabulary list for each lesson you can see explanations for sentences and words, listen vocabularies and record your own voice and you can even compare your pronunciation with a native one. 

You can see your progress like this.

At the end of the each lesson there is a quiz as you see. 

 

 

As you see there are lots of resources you can benefit from. One of the best thing is the mobile apps *thumbs up*  It means that you can continue learning any time. 

There are also lots of videos you can benefit from. You can download and watch them again and again. There is a word list and a quiz for each video. :) 

There are also a flash cards. You can learn new word with using them. You see and listen the word given. 

Well by using sounds, videos it helps you to learn quicker also it sends you an email "word of the day" so it contributes your learning even if you don't involve in learning actively.  You learn grammar rules, daily life conversations, words with using EnglishClass101.com. I use Korean version of this website and I'm happy about it. ^^