This how to worksheet guides teachers through the process of using GIFs to create Quizlet study sets to help students learn English verbs.

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Quizlet – teaching actions
Teaching verbs is sometimes difficult. Quizlet might be useful for this if animated GIFs are added study
sets. A Quizlet study set featuring verbs from the 1st grade Dolch list.
ANIMATED GIFS
Animated Gifs are images on a Web page that move. They take far less memory than a digital movie
clips as they are often only 3 to 6 frames of looped animation. Animated Gifs do not normally work in
static word processor documents. They do run in web documents such as Quizlet.
 Be aware that longer GIFs do not always display as long as they may on the Giphy
website. Testing your gifs with the Quizlet Flashcard must be done before sharing the study
set with your teaching peers or students.
1 LOCATING ANIMATED GIFS
1. In a browser, open the site https://giphy.com
2. Click in the Search all the GIFs box
3. Type a key verb – for example running
4. Click on the Search icon
5. A visual wall of animated gifs that match your search appear.

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6. Scroll down the page. If they are not really what you require, refine your search. (eg: running
dog)
7. Click on the Search icon
8. Once you have a suitable Gif, click on it.
9. To the right of the GIF, click on the link Download.
10. Choose the option Small
11. Save this file to your computer. (record the file’s location)
2 INSERTING AN ANIMATED GIF INTO QUIZLET
1. Open your Quizlet Study set as an instructor
2. Click on the Import button
3. Choose the Edit icon near the top of the screen.
4. The Study set editing screen appears
5. At the bottom, click on the link + Add Card
6. In the Term field, type a word
7. In the Definition field, type a definition

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8. In the Definition field, choose the image icon
9. Images appear below the term, choose Or upload your own image
10. Locate the downloaded file, click on it.
11. Click on the Open button
12. After you have added your new terms, click on the Done button
13. Scroll down the screen to check the new entries for spelling.
14. The Study Set has been updated