AQA AS style cloze exercises using TaskMagic3

There's a pdf cloze exercise below based on an article from BBC Mundo. It requires students to put a verb or adjective into the correct form according to the context, just like one of the exercises on the AQA AS exam.

The other file is a TaskMagic3 individual exercise file (_tx3). You'll need version 3.2 or later of TaskMagic to open this. It opens directly to

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TaskMagic Tutorial - (3) Creating Your own Mix & Gap files (exploiting a text)

This post contains a series of video tutorials on creating Mix and Gap exercises in TaskMagic3.

1. Introduction to the Mix and Gap edit screen + the auto-generated exercises

Type or paste any text into the Mix and Gap edit screen, click "View Exercises" and you immediately have up to 16 automatically generated exercises based on reconstructing your original text:

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French - discussion & debate resources on "L'environnement" -- A level (advanced)

If you're looking for resources to help your advanced French students (A2 in the UK) with discussions / debates etc, check out the many resources available from www.frenchteacher.net . A while back I came across a word doc containing vocab and a variety of opinions on a whole range of A2 topics to help students to prepare for discussion.

I've taken this vocab and these discussion / opinion phrases and made them into a load of TaskMagic3 exercises. They're on the ready-made exercises page of the TaskMagic website at http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk/readymade.htm#fryear13. The many files available on this link require TaskMagic3. If you haven't got it, you can get a 30-day trial download from http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk/trialdownloads.htm.

I printed out a load of pdf worksheets from the TaskMagic3 files based on the 3 environment sub-sections of the word doc mentioned above (pages 4, 5 & 6). There are 19 pdf files in 3 groups of 6 (ie. 6 pdfs per text) + a vocab list (matching exercise).

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