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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.

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Add text-to-speech to your Match activities to create audio-based spelling activities where the meaning is reinforced by displaying the L1 as a prompt.

To do this:

1. Make a Match activity with the items listed as L1>L2
2. Add a TTS voice to the right match (L2)
3. Use one of the "Fill in the letters" Match activities, with TTS on.

See the embedded example below:

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Some ideas for making listening practice more accessible, providing activities at a variety of levels, where students have control over the audio player (can pause, repeat, re-play etc)...

...AND all of this with minimal prep time for teachers, as all of the activities 1 to 10 below are generated automatically based on a single text.

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