We've made an improvement to the "Space" activity (Separate the words), so that if your text has more than 20 words in it, you can now decide on the number of words to be joined up.
Your options are: All words; 1/2 words; 1/3 words; 1/4 words; 1/5 words
Why do this? Well, for a couple of reasons...
New activity: 3 in a row.
Just as with Football, there are 3 versions. One selects random gaps from a text, one is based on user-defined gaps (as long as you have created a user-defined gap-fill), and one is based on matching items.
The example below is based on matching items (Spanish, verb conjugation):
Football!
(Or Soccer to those of you from the USA)
The activity embedded below is based a matching resource (euros / numbers in Spanish). It is pre-set so that the game is limited to 2 minutes...:
Some textivate resources for ks3 or ks4 French, based on these TaskMagic resources.
The contents for the resources are:
- Je vais...
- Je ne vais pas...
- J'ai l'intention de...
- Je vais essayer de...
+ a range of infinitive expressions
The resources are appropriate for KS3 or KS4 pupils as a way of practising the simple future within the context of the New Year.
Word Invaders works in the same way as the normal Invaders, except that it takes words from the text rather than letters.
Students have to click the words in the correct order to fill the word gaps in the text segment that appears in the text box. Text segments are selected randomly from the whole text.
Here is the activity from the above image, embedded:
Jumbled Words splits the text using full stops and line breaks. (Short sentences of fewer than 3 words are combined, and long sentences are split using other punctuation, where possible.)
Students complete the activity by putting the words of each section of the text into the correct order.
See the embedded example below (the same resource as in the image above):
We've made a further 7 activities available to those making activities with character languages or languages which do not use roman-script...
You'll see that in the bottom left of the above screen image there are two option buttons: "Words" or "Sentences"
"Words" means that the text is divided in roughly equal-sized chunks based on the number of words. This has been the default setting until now, and it tends to create activities where:
We've made a small change to the way that you navigate between some of the activities on textivate.
The +tiles and -tiles buttons have gone and have been replaced by a drop-down box (see the image below).
This makes it easier to navigate directly to the number of tiles that you want to see in your activity.
These changes have been made to the following screens on the text side:
Tiles (all), Horizontal, Paragraphs, Next Word, 50:50, Initials, Empty, Anagrams
...and the following screens on the Match side:
Shuffle Match, Switch Match, Click Match (all), Memory (all)
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This is another Match Jumble activity, as introduced on this recent blog post.
Here is the activity, embedded. (Click to load the exercise):