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TaskMagic3 Spanish Sample Unit - En la cafetería - Free download

At the bottom of this post you will find a link to download a free standalone TaskMagic program containing a unit of work in Spanish on ordering food and drink in a cafeteria. The level is ideal for older primary school children, but it will also work well with older children working at a fairly low level or in need of revision. There is a fairly wide range of difficulty within the various exercises in the unit.

The download contains 16 TaskMagic3 files, which are accessed via a simple menu screen.

Text Match exercises - what to match? (2) Sentences with gaps

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)

Text Match exercises - what to match? (1) English to FL

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

French poem / passé composé resources - Déjeuner du matin (Jacques Prévert)

One of the many improvements in TaskMagic3 is the fact that you can make exercises based on text on separate lines, such as poems, letters, songs, paragraphs etc., rather than just a continuous chunk of text.

The resources on this page are based on the poem Déjeuner du matin by Jacques Prévert. The same approach can be used for any poem, short story, nursery rhyme, song etc. You can even add a sound file to the interactive exercises.

The resources below were created using

Verb Conjugation (Spanish) - Regular AR, ER and IR verbs - Present tense

See below for a selection of pdf worksheets which you can view online, save, print etc. The worksheets are based on items entered into a text grid using the Grid Match component of TaskMagic3.

The worksheets below were printed from TaskMagic3 using doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com - a free program which adds "print to pdf" to your printers list.

The exercises are based on

Verb Conjugation - Multiple tenses / 1st person (French)

See below for a selection of pdf worksheets which you can view online, save, print etc. The worksheets are based on items entered into a text grid using the Grid Match component of TaskMagic3.

The worksheets below were printed from TaskMagic3 using doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com - a free program which adds "print to pdf" to your printers list.

Before we get to the worksheets, let me just

Exploiting short dialogues / situational dialogues

In a previous post (see here), I discussed how it was possible to exploit a source text to generate a whole range of interactive exercises and worksheets based on the text itself, as well as on the lexical items within the text, and how this can be achieved in a matter of minutes using TaskMagic3.

This post will take a quick look at how short transactional or situational dialogues (or any short series of exchanges on any topic) can be exploited in a similar way, using the Dialogues component of TaskMagic3 as the starting point.