Making a video like this is very simple, just go to: http://twist.channel4.com/words and you'll see a page full of words. Click on the words you want to put in your sentence.
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If you like the video, then just click on submit and you'll be able to get a URL link for the video or and embed code to add it to your site or blog.
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If you don't want to create your own sentence you can just click on 'Lucky Dip' and you'll get an automatically generated sentence.
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I think Twist Our Words is a great tool to use with students to get them creating and listening to language.
- They could try to make poems or haiku
- They can produce a lucky dip sentence and then see how many word they can add to it without it loosing sense.
- You could produce sentences that have errors in and get the students to try to spot the errors and correct them.
- You can produce a collection of sentences and get students to decide which are correct and which are not.
- You could have a competition to see which students can produce the longest grammatically correct sentence.
- They could collect together all the words they can find that include a particular phoneme or all the word which rhyme.
- They could try to make a video with all the words that contain 3 syllables and the same stress pattern.
Related links:
- Flickr in 3D
- Create Spelling Games and Tests
- Get Students Checking Grammar and Collocation
- A Collaborative English Grammar
- Using Word Clouds in EFL ESL
- Revising Short Texts and Syntax on IWB
Best
Nik Peachey