This blog post looks at some of the sorts of activities that you can do with textivate to exploit a song. The song itself can be embedded as a video, or as audio, or students can access it in a separate browser tab or window.
We've completely revamped the menu screen (above).
This new version makes it much easier to read the text / matching items on the menu screen.
It also has words on the menu, rather than images intended to represent each activity.
And many activities that are essentially the same, such as all the tile activities, are now accessed in submenus.
Here's what it used to look like (if you've never used textivate, or if you've forgotten already...):
Here is a link to the menu as shown in the first image above. Have a play with it: http://www.textivate.com/menu-7rfjn1?colscheme=blue
We hope you like the change.
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A resource blog-post, for a change...
The images in this textivate resource are direct links to images on the openclipart website, https://openclipart.org/
The 26 activities below are in the same order and format as many of the image+text matching resources on the KS3 French section of textivate plus (for textivate subscribers) at https://www.textivate.com/plus/French/KS3_General_
NB: Scroll down to below the interactive activities for some pdf worksheets based on this resource.
The embedded resources below can be accessed by anyone (with or without a subscription):
Using a combination of embedded video or embedded audio and a single activity textivate sequence, it's easy to create a dictation activity on textivate that your students can complete for homework. (Records their score and time taken too.)
See this French example based on Prévert's "Déjeuner du matin":
https://www.textivate.com/frames.php?vid=you-9_FpZxao-Ng&res=sequence-9vijn1
(Close the log-in box to have a go at the activity)
Here is the same activity embedded. Close the log-in box to have a go at it. Then click on the video icon to open the activity with the video embedded, so that you can listen to the audio.
Short(ish) text suitable for KS3 or KS4
+ parallel English text
+ vocab matching items
+ text-to-speech !
Here is a link to the menu screen:
>> Noël en France <<
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If you are a textivate subscriber, you will be able to access the resources on the textivate plus section of textivate. (If you are not a subscriber, you will be able to see what's there, but you won't be able to open the activities.)
One part of textivate plus is the "Short texts" section for KS4 French. These texts are similar in length (and content?) to the L1>L2 translation texts on the new GCSE specifications. (Higher tier, admittedly, but these are still useful practice resources for Foundation candidates.)
Here is the link to the short texts for GCSE French: http://www.textivate.com/plus/French/KS4_Short%20texts_
Check it out.
Each resource contains over 50 activities (described below, or you could just click the link above and select one of the resources):
We've created a new section on textivate with ready-made resources. So far it only has resources for French, but we'll be adding to it over the coming months.
We've tried to include plenty of activities with a focus on L1>L2 translation.
Check it out: http://www.textivate.com/plus.php
New features are being added to textivate all the time.
To give you an idea, if you've been using textivate for the last 12 months (September 2015 - August 2016), these are all the new features that have been added to textivate in that time. Click on the links for more info:
- Challenges (September 2015) - in-class competitions for individuals or teams
- Match Jumble (October 2015) - new match activity
- Drop-down box navigation (November 2015)
- Split by sentence (November 2015)
- Improved options for non-roman-script languages (November 2015)
- Jumbled words (November 2015) - new text activity
- Word invaders (November 2015) - new text activity
- Football (January 2016) - new text and match activities
- 3 in a row (January 2016) - new text and match activities
- Space specifications (January 2016)
- Flashcards improvements (January 2016)
- Speed read (February 2016) - new text activity
- Text to speech (July 2016) - new feature to add speech functionality to almost all your textivities
- Switch matching items (July 2016) - improvement for match resources
- Flashcards clues options (August 2016) - makes flashcards much more versatile
Challenges are just one of many new features added to textivate in the past 12 months...