EXPLORING TOOLS 2 : MAKE BELIEFS COMIX

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Hello everyone !

Visuals and funny materails are always really supporting in language learning and teaching. As a result of that, in this post I will introduce you a tool : MakeBeliefsComix, which is presented by my two classmates, Türkan and Ebru, in class.

Make Beliefs Comix is a website which allows its users to create their own comic strips. There are a number of characters, objects, scenes and speech bubbles. Let’s take a closer look now !

This website is free and you do not need to create an account to use it and actually that is why you cannot save an incomplete work. By the way, as this site is completely free, there are ads but they are not that annoying in my opinion.

To create your comic, firstly you click on ‘’Enter Here’’ from the homepage.

This is the main page in which you create your comic.

Then you can start with choosing your panel which means that your comic can be 2,3 or 4 panels.

After that you should decide whether you will use colors in the background or scenes.

Next, you add your characters and you can change the poses of your characters by using arrows.

Also, from the left side of the page you can make changes that you will see below.

Then, add talk balloons or thought balloons and write what you want your character to say. Also, you can add objects, panel promts to make your comic more interesting.

When you complete your comic, do not forget to give it a title and put your name,too. Then, click on ‘’Next’’ and from there you can print the comic or save the image to your computer. If you want to, you can email your comic to yourself or to a friend.

The Process of creating a comic is really easy and you can see the comic that I created below :

How this tool can be used in language teaching ?

- Students can create a comic about themselves. For example, they can write about their favourite things to do after a lesson in which they are taught activities and hobbies.

- At the beginning of a school year, you can ask your students to create a comic describing their holiday.

- You can use this tool to practice new contents. You can ask your students to use newly-learnt words or a specific tense in their comics.

- Also, as a tip you can print the templates to use in the classroom if you do not have enough computers for every student to use.

These examples can be enhanced as long as you are determined to teach your students English in a way that they will enjoy and learn effectively, benefitting from technology. MakeBeliefsComix will definitely arouse interest among your students with its fun characters,objects and scenes.

Hope that this is useful, take care !