A resource blog based on a text suitable for AS French, I think. The text is about Tesco's decision to stop selling crescent-shaped croissants...
All the links below will open a textivate activity along with a parallel text.
For most of the activities the parallel text is in English, to help students to complete the various reconstruction, gap-filling and text-entry activities (i.e. structured translation).
The two activities that mention "Find the French" have the parallel text in French.
Rebuild the French text (1 in 4)
Put the blocks in order (3 x 5)
Separate the words that are stuck together
Find the French... (anagrams, 14 terms)
Find the French... (word shapes provided, 14 terms)
Rebuild the text, 3 words at a time
Put the words of each section in the correct order
Fill in the letters (1 in 2 words affected, initials provided)
Fill in the letters (all words affected, initials provided)
Fill in the letters (only word shapes provided)
And here is a link to the menu screen (the one shown in the image at the top):
The menu provides access to loads more activities, many of which can be configured to change the number of words affected etc.
See this blog post on parallel texts, and this one on scaffolded translation using textivate.
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