Martin Lapworth

Love this! The Caterpillar game is such a versatile and engaging tool, great for reinforcing vocab and grammar in a fun way. Thanks for sharing the different modes, can’t wait to try them out with my classes! 🐛💬 #mflbluesky #mfltwitterati #langchat

🆕 🐛 CATERPILLAR game on TextActivities.com 🤩

Available as
1⃣ matching (x6 modes)
2⃣ random gapfill
3⃣ user-defined gapfill (see pic)

Try the activity from the pic on this link 👇👇👇
www.textactivities.com/resource-sam...

#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky

🆕 ✨ MC MAZE game on TextActivities.com 🤩

Available as
1⃣ matching (x6 modes)
2⃣ random gapfill
3⃣ user-defined gapfill

Try the 🇪🇸 Spanish game from pic 1 on this link 👇👇👇
textactivities.com/resource-sam...

#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky

🆕 🐛 CATERPILLAR game on TextActivities.com 🤩

Available as
1⃣ matching (x6 modes)
2⃣ random gapfill
3⃣ user-defined gapfill (see pic)

Try the activity from the pic on this link 👇👇👇
www.textactivities.com/resource-sam...

#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky

🆕 ✨ MC MAZE game on TextActivities.com 🤩

Available as
1⃣ matching (x6 modes)
2⃣ random gapfill
3⃣ user-defined gapfill

Try the 🇪🇸 Spanish game from pic 1 on this link 👇👇👇
textactivities.com/resource-sam...

#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky

#LangChat

Translation into the Target Language (with examples in several languages) TextActivities is a great tool for practising translation into the L2 / the target language. You can create your own resources in a matter of minutes and then have access to all sorts of activity...

🔥 On the many ways of practising
📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into:
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇹 Italian
🇪🇸 Spanish
TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇
#mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...

Translation into the Target Language (with examples in several languages) TextActivities is a great tool for practising translation into the L2 / the target language. You can create your own resources in a matter of minutes and then have access to all sorts of activity...

🔥 On the many ways of practising
📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into:
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇹 Italian
🇪🇸 Spanish
TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...
#mflbluesky

Translation into the Target Language (with examples in several languages) TextActivities is a great tool for practising translation into the L2 / the target language. You can create your own resources in a matter of minutes and then have access to all sorts of activity...

🔥 On the many ways of practising
📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into:
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇹 Italian
🇪🇸 Spanish
TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...
#mflbluesky

Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly Government reviews use of human rights law to argue for people being allowed to stay, which PM called a ‘loophole’

I have consistent Tory déjà vu ... only it's Labour. Every day I think: 'they cannot possibly get worse'. And then, every day, they manage to do just that. From the failure to finally provide safe routes to this now - it's wrong, inhumane, and pure Reform cosplay. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Click through to try out all sorts of SCAFFOLDED TRANSLATION activities in 🇫🇷 French, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇹 Italian and 🇪🇸 Spanish 👇👇👇
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky
(GCSE translation to L2)

Click through to try out all sorts of SCAFFOLDED TRANSLATION activities in 🇫🇷 French, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇹 Italian and 🇪🇸 Spanish 👇👇👇
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts
(GCSE translation to L2)

Translation into the Target Language (with examples in several languages) TextActivities is a great tool for practising translation into the L2 / the target language. You can create your own resources in a matter of minutes and then have access to all sorts of activity...

✨ NEW post on the TextActivities blog on the many ways of practising
📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language 👇👇👇
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into:
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇹 Italian
🇪🇸 Spanish
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...
#mflbluesky

Love using @teachvid.bsky.social for adaptive teaching tasks at the moment! As a result, my entire department is using it! What a fabulous website #mflbluesky

Israel has killed more than 700 Palestinians in the last 48 hours and there is almost zero coverage by American news outlets

Translation into the Target Language (with examples in several languages) TextActivities is a great tool for practising translation into the L2 / the target language. You can create your own resources in a matter of minutes and then have access to all sorts of activity...

✨ NEW post on the TextActivities blog on the many ways of practising
📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language 👇👇👇
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into:
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇹 Italian
🇪🇸 Spanish
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...
#mflbluesky

Working with parallel texts in language teaching Parallel texts as a self-learning toolPlenty has been written about the benefits for motivated language learners of using parallel texts to help learn a language. (Do a quick google search and...

🔥 Working with parallel texts in MFL 👇👇👇
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

Dictation activities on TextActivities Many of the activities available on TextActivities.com -- both text rebuild and vocab / matching -- can be seen as scaffolded dictation activities, i.e. which require students to listen to some...

🔊👂✍️ LISTENING practice via DICTATION-like activities from the get-go is likely to produce students with better listening skills
👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac...
🤩 Post includes 28 direct links to different activities on TextActivities

Must read for any language language teacher, modern or ancient. Come for the lesson ideas, stay for the breakdown of all the research. Gratias maximas tibi, Doctor!

‘Battle for the truth’: Pro-Israel bias inside UK newsrooms revealed Exclusive: Journalists from five British media outlets have criticised the way their own organisations cover Israel-Palestine.

A former BBC journalist told Declassified that at the BBC --

“The use of the word genocide is effectively banned, and any contributor who uses this word is immediately shut down.”

www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-t...

‘Battle for the truth’: Pro-Israel bias inside UK newsrooms revealed Exclusive: Journalists from five British media outlets have criticised the way their own organisations cover Israel-Palestine.

❗️Disgruntled staff at the Guardian have compiled an “exhaustive spreadsheet” of the paper “amplifying unchallenged Israeli propaganda…or treating clearly false statements by Israeli spokespeople as credible”.

www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-the-truth-pro-israel-bias-inside-uk-newsrooms-revealed/

Why using Scripted Listening (reading- whilst- listening) is so powerful for vocabulary acquisition Reading while listening is a highly effective strategy for vocabulary acquisition and one that plays a massive role in the first phases of EPI’s MARS EARS sequence, namely in the Modelling an…

Why using Scripted Listening (reading- whilst- listening) is so powerful for vocabulary acquisition
gianfrancoconti.com/2025/02/20/w...
#mfltwitterati #mflbluesky #mflchat #langchat #teachinglistening

Ten tried-and-tested instructional strategies that WILL enhance your students’ listening skills and GCSE grades Introduction Listening is widely recognized as one of the most challenging yet crucial skills in second language acquisition. Despite its importance, traditional listening instruction in many langu…

Ten tried-and-tested instructional strategies that WILL enhance your students’ listening skills and GCSE grades
gianfrancoconti.com/2025/02/21/t...
👏👏👏👏 #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky #teachinglistening #langchat #mflchat

SOS: So after the Y11 mocks, what? We just completed our second set of mock exams for Y11 before the February half-term and after analysing results, most students missed the n...

SOS!! New post on the blog about how to maximise our Y11 students’ skills in the next three months before the GCSE exams. mflcraft.blogspot.com/2025/02/sos-... #mflbluesky

YouTube video by Cambridge Union Professor Jeffrey Sachs + Q&A | Cambridge Union

Trump spake bollcoks obvs. But there are lies on all sides. This 17 mins from Jefferey Sachs is well worth a watch to understand how we got where we are now. It's from last October at the Cambridge Union: youtu.be/0Bl6_MAhg_4?...

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised In oceans and on land, from the north to the south pole, records were smashed for the monthly average temperature

Wie viele Menschen werden daran denken, wenn Sie am Sonntag waehlen gehen?

Two-thirds of the world’s surface was scorched by a month or more of record-breaking heat, Guardian analysis of satellite data can reveal.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

YouTube video by Cambridge Union Professor Jeffrey Sachs + Q&A | Cambridge Union

Here's the full version, filmed at the Cambridge Union in October 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bl6...

YouTube video by Toni 🇺🇦 LA GUERRA DE UCRANIA EXPLICADA EN 5 MINUTOS.

It's all so black and white isn't it. I found this from Jeffrey Sachs quite interesting. Maybe you could get him on LBC? youtu.be/oiQgasSJ-UI

YouTube video by Cambridge Union Professor Jeffrey Sachs + Q&A | Cambridge Union

Here's the full version, filmed at the Cambridge Union in October 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bl6...