Some activities to practise the French alphabet.
The activities use TTS to read out the French letters. Students simply have to click on the letter they hear.
Find out more about TTS in textivate
The key thing to remember when making matching resources based on matching sentence halves is that the matches should be exclusive - i.e. you should make sure that there is only one sentence end that could possibly go with each sentence starter. It's no good making a resource based on the following data:
Je fais partie d'un club >> de foot
Je fais partie d'un club >> de tennis
Je fais partie d'un club >> de rugby
etc...
...because any of the ends can match perfectly well with any of the starters.
Instead, you need to do this sort of thing:
Vocab resources with an output focus ask the question "how do you say ...?" rather than "what does ... mean?".
The focus is on students' productive skills (speaking, writing) rather than on receptive skills (listening, reading), so they are more challenging for students.
The screen image above shows a textivate Match resource which has the following characteristics:
Vocab resources with a receptive (or input) focus ask the question "what does ... mean?" rather than "how do you say ...?".
The focus is on students' receptive skills (listening, reading) rather than on productive skills (speaking, writing), so they are less challenging for students. We want to know what they can understand rather than what they can produce themselves.
The screen image above shows a textivate Match resource which has the following characteristics:
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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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...
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.