Exploiting an authentic text - Spanish - pilot stuck in lavatory leads to terrorist fears

These resources are based on an article from BBC Mundo about the problems caused when a pilot got stuck in the lavatory while his plane was coming in to land...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ultimas_noticias/2011/11/111117_ultnot_piloto_bano_jgc.shtml

There are 11 pdf files in all, all printed using dopdf - http://www.dopdf.com

The pdfs are based on a Mix and Gap file containing the text of the article, which is also included (mtx3). This file provides a wide variety of interactive exercises for use with PCs or with an interactive whiteboard. It requires TaskMagic3. If you haven't got TaskMagic3, you can download a 30-day trial from the TaskMagic website (doesn't require registration or anything - just download and install it).

The screenshot shows the student front page for the file in TaskMagicPlay. In TaskMagic, each of the little thumbnails links to a different interactive exercise.

It takes a matter of minutes to convert any news article like this one into a load of worksheets and interactive resources which recycle the same content in lots of different ways.

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See this video tutorial on getting started with Mix and Gap and an introduction to the automatically generated exercises in Mix and Gap:

See this video tutorial which gives a brief introduction to the 7 non-auto-generated exercises in Mix and Gap:

SEE THESE DETAILED VIDEO TUTORIALS on all aspects of creating your own Mix and Gap files to exploit all sorts of texts in TaskMagic3 (by creating interactive exercises and worksheets).

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