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)
The key thing to remember when making matching activities based on matching sentence halves is that the matches have to be exclusive - i.e. you must 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 end can match perfectly well with any of the starters.
Instead, you need to do this sort of thing:
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.
...so that each match is exclusive.
The resources in this blog post are based on 16 sentences on the above topic in French.
I've limited the activities available so that there are only 15 (rather than the usual 23 activities), as you can see in the menu screen below. This is so that those activities where no clue is given as to the continuation of the sentence are not included - to include them would make them all about guesswork.
Sentence half resources are really good for use with the Jumbled Words activity, where the two halves are joined as one sentence and then all of the words are jumbled up. See the screenshot and worksheet below:
You can also play a hangman game based on the whole sentence:
And you also get all of the following activities and worksheets. All created automatically.
