Mitch

Ello!

This is Mitch's page. Below is a short claymation video made by myself and Corey using movie maker and my iphone camera. Hope you like it, as ridiculous as it is!

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[|This link] is a link to my short animated story using xtranormal.com. As my methods are French and English, I chose to retell some French cultural history (Napoleon's downfall) in English, so that all can understand. For more advanced French classes, the students can change the voices to those of French characters and write their dialogue in French.

Below is a screen shot from [|Brainpop English Grammar].



This Particular part of the website would be immensely useful for English grammar of all secondary levels as students are constantly forgetting basic grammatical functions of English. Clear examples are given for each element, along with visual diagrams, and students can also undertake grammatical quizzes. This would be especially useful for younger years who are trying to grasp things such as the use of the colon and semi-colon. For older students, they can briefly review the uses of each grammatical element to jog their memory, before writing major essays which will be marked down if their grammar is poor.

I did not previously know about this site, and will be looking at it in further detail as an English teacher because I can see many uses for it in the classroom, both as a pedagogic tool and a reference point for all speakers of English.

However, the massive downside to this site is that each user must register and pay to use it. Obviously this would mean that every student must create their own login profile and the English dept would most likely have to pay for their account subscription. On that note, I am sure that with just a few keystrokes in google, students would also be able to find in depth descriptions about English grammar.

If this site was free it would be perfect.