Videos to Use in Class
Incorporating animated videos in EFL classrooms enhances language learning by engaging students visually and emotionally, providing valuable context and modeling, expanding vocabulary, and promoting both spoken and written language production. By leveraging the benefits of animated content, teachers can create a more dynamic and effective language learning environment for their students.
WiNDUP
This is a story about the fragile nature of life, love, and what it means to never give up.
Napo
Napo, a short animated movie about the relation between a grandfather living with Alzheimer's diseases and his grandson that starts to develop when the old man comes to live with him and his mother. Napo won more than thirty awards in many different countries.
Snack Attack
A wordless animation, Snack Attack is a perfect animated short for all ages to discuss perceptions, stereotypes, inferences, predictions, aha moments, flashbacks, and more.
Unapeeling
“A hopeful onion is prepared to make friends on his first day of school but quickly learns he can’t get close to anyone without making them burst into tears.” Will the onion find a friend?
Hungroo
This is a story of the prehistoric era. Hunting for food is the only way for Greg to survive and everyday he tries his best to find food for himself. One fine day, he finds a big spectacular egg that changes his life forever.
Joy & Heron
This is a lovely video that celebrates kindness and understanding.
For The Birds
This is a lovely video about bullying awareness. It depicts a story of bullying and how the bullies suffer from their own actions in the end.
Let's Eat
Let’s Eat is a 8 minute animated short film that centers on the relationship between a mother and daughter in a Chinese-American immigrant family. It's story about taking people for granted.
Hope
The short film “HOPE” is about the journey of a new born baby sea turtle named Aqua. During his journey, he faces many obstacles from human pollution to different predators. Using his mind and courage he over comes one obstacle after the other, until he reaches his final destination. Just before he enters the sea, he witnesses a life changing scene, that he bravely over comes and grows as a character.
Spell Bound
"Spell Bound" is an animated short film about a lonely girl, Rene, who is jealous of her perfect sister Sunny but must save her after writing negative thoughts in her diary that unexpectedly transform into monsters.
Crunch
The story starts with the morning of a little, short guy named Bob who just starts working in the space agency. When watching the spaceship launching, Bob is hit by a bolt of mysterious lightning and starts to grow bigger. But there seems no way to stop...
The Present
The film tells the story of a boy who rather spends his time indoors playing videogames instead of discovering what’s waiting outside. One day his Mum decides to get a little surprise for her son, which makes it hard for him to concentrate on his video game any longer.