There are many cartoon-generating Web tools, but few are so language rich as Zimmer Twins. Once you’ve registered, you can create a cartoon of as many frames as you like, based around three set characters – Edgar, Eva and Thirteen the cat. You have four types of frame: communicating (talking, thinking, whispering, etc), actions (anything from walking and running to hugging, chasing, strutting and even crowd surfing!), close ups showing facial expressions (eg confused, dizzy, relieved) and a set of ’star clips’ (including sequencing captions such as ‘earlier’, ‘later’ and ‘meanwhile’). All of these are labelled meaning that students come into contact with over eighty words and phrases every time they use the tool, as well as the language they’re using the tool to create.
Watch the following tutorial to see how easy it is to create a Zimmer Twins film…
…and click here to view our example.