Exploiting authentic texts - French - Les All Blacks champions du monde de Rugby

A fairly short post, but packed full of free resources. You can easily produce your own interactive and print resources like those below - based on authentic texts, news stories etc. It's so quick and easy to do with TaskMagic3. Here's what I did...

I made a TaskMagic3 Mix&Gap file based on a news story from BBC Afrique.

I printed out 11 worksheets as pdf documents using doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com

Text Match exercises - what to match? (4) Question & answer

Text Match is probably the most used component of TaskMagic and can be used in so many different ways...

This series of blog posts - "Text Match exercises - what to match?" - explores some ideas for the kinds of things that teachers can use as the basis for their text matching exercises. Each blog post contains screenshots of - and links to - interactive exercises as well as worksheets which can be viewed online, downloaded, printed etc. (SCROLL DOWN FOR THE WORKSHEETS)

Les quatre petits amis - Resources based on a simple story in French

The pdf files below are based on the 'Quatre petits amis' story, which is one of the 20 French stories available with a trial log-in on the Grow Story Grow website - http://www.growstorygrow.com

Grow Story Grow is an online language-learning library. There are over a 100 French animated stories in total (with animation and audio), each with interactive games, worksheets etc. The site also has stories in German, Spanish, English, Italian, Polish and Mandarin.

The idea behind the stories is that there is lots of repetition of

Making use of news stories (10 years after 9/11, French)

This is a very short post, but packed full of free resources.

I made a TaskMagic3 Mix&Gap file based on a news story from BBC Afrique.

I printed out the worksheets as pdf documents using doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com

On this occasion I've converted the 9 pdf worksheets into 1 pdf file using MergePDF - http://foxyutils.com/mergepdf/#

See below. Simply scroll through the pdf file to access the various printable activities. The activities are: