Fun Language Teaching Tool: Create Your Avatar in Voki

Were you captivated by the funny illustrations in textbooks during class when you? Will your students enjoy creating their own animated images in the English classroom? I recently discovered a really fun website: https://www.voki.com/ You can make your English classroom more engaging and let the kids be creative here. At the same time, your students will be more willing to use English, thus improving their English skills!

 

Create your own characters

Students can create their own characters in Voki. The character can be themselves - students can look like themselves (or an imaginary person) with similar hair and features; the character can be a celebrity - a serious Mr. Trump, or a beautiful Princess Barbie; the character can even be a little monster from the cyberpunk world, or a vampire growing in the darkness. You and your students can use your imagination to create your own characters here!

Enhance your students' English skills

Voki provides a rich set of scenarios for teaching and practicing English. For example, you can have students try to describe the character's appearance, tell the character's backstory, or set up a storyline in which the character solves a problem in a specific situation. Each of these approaches is new and challenging enough for students. English learning becomes less boring. Plus, it improves students' writing, speaking and other English skills and makes them fall in love with English!

 

Special Note: voki is not a completely free website. You can use the free version, because paying for it is not necessary.