See if you can put the pieces of this text in the correct order. It starts with "¿Por qué...?" (=why?)
Can you understand the text?
Use the word list beneath the exercise to help you to understand the full text:
I thought I'd try this out.
One simple daily routine text in the present tense (every day).
Then the same text in the perfect tense (yesterday).
Then in the simple "aller + infinitive" future (tomorrow).
Then finally in the imperfect (when I was little).
See the various embedded exercises below, which are normally accessed via these buttons on the textivate menu screen:
1. Drag the tiles into the correct order. (NB. It starts with "Tous les jours..."):
Some information about the 4 different text types available to textivate users. In a nutshell they work as follows:
- Public = accessible by all and searchable via the textivate browser.
- Shareable = shareable via url or embed code. NOT searchable via the textivate browser.
- Private = only accessible by the text contributor, when logged in, via the "My online texts" browser.
- MySite = only accessible when embedded on the site specified by the contributor.
The exercises below give a bit more information about the text types.
(The text used for the exercises below is a public text.)
A new button has been added to the textivate front page / editor screen: "Extra gap-fill" (see image below):
This allows you to create an extra gap-fill exercise (funnily enough) based on your own gaps, in addition to the automatically generated one. If you click this button you are presented with a screen on which you can toggle gapped words simply by clicking them.
This blog post features a video from RTVE showing some footage from today's "Tomatina" festival in Buñol (Comunidad Valenciana). The video has no commentary, but sets the scene nicely for the text / exercise which follows, which is a gapfill exercise based on a text about the history of "La tomatina" taken from the official tomatina website at http://www.latomatina.es/historia/
The Tomatina festival takes place each year on the last Wednesday in August. Watch the video below of this year's Tomatina, which took place on Wednesday 29th of August, and then have a look at the exercise beneath it based on a text describing the origins of "La Tomatina".
The embedded activity below is based on a short Spanish text about sports, practising basic introductions, "me gusta(n)", "practico", "juego a" etc.
This is an example of the "Initials" activity, which can be accessed via this button on the textivate menu screen:
The exercise below can completed by typing in the missing letters, or you might simply use it as an oral stimulus.
This post contains an example of combining embedded video from youtube with an embedded textivate exercise.
The video is a song about "Mes vacances" by Tom Poisson, which I've already blogged about on the TaskMagic blog: http://taskmagic.posterous.com/french-song-resources-mes-vacances
The activity shown below is the "Next Word" activity, which can be accessed via this button on the textivate menu screen:
The exercise embedded below is based on a short text about the development of the embryo / foetus during pregnancy and what happens during birth. It demonstrates the "Paragraphs" activity, which is accessed via this button on the textivate menu screen:
Below is another example of an embedded textivate activity (textivity?). This example is based on a short French text about weather and seasons, and it demonstrates the "No vowels" activity, which is accessed via the following button on the textivate menu page:
The exercise embedded below is the "Space" exercise, the one accessed via this button on the textivate menu page:
