Macmillan Iberia ELT Teacher Training blog

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…

Zimmertwins video tutorial

…and click  here to view our example.

Once you’ve set up your Google gmail account you can now set up your blog using Blogger. The tutorial below will show you how to do this.

Creating a blog using Bloggerç

When you’ve finished watching the tutorial, click on the back arrow to return to the blog.

Blogger is the easiest way to create a blog. However, being a Google tool, it requires you to have a Google gmail account. The following tutorial illustrates how to do this:

Creating a Google account tutorial

When you’ve finished watching the tutorial, click on the back arrow to return to the blog.