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TextActivities.com is THE multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers, from the author of TaskMagic (now no longer available), Textivate.com, TeachVid.com and SentenceBuilders.com (TextActivities is the NEW version of Textivate) #MFLBlueSky

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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...

๐Ÿ”ฅ On the many ways of practising
๐Ÿ“„โœ๏ธ TRANSLATION into the Target Language
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities of translation into
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท French
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช German
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish
TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...
#mflbluesky #mfltwitterati

18.09.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A first attempt at using AI to generate a TextActivities resource I had a go at using the free version of ChatGPT to generate some content to form the basis of a TextActivities resource. I was pleasantly surprised by how quick and easy the whole process was. See...

๐Ÿค–๐Ÿช„ Using AI to generate a TextActivities resource
๐ŸŒ textactivities.posthaven.com/a-first-atte...
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #mflbluesky
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish text
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English translation
๐Ÿ”€ Matching vocab chunks
Resource with 100+ interactive activities ๐Ÿ˜
๐ŸŽฌ Includes video demo๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

18.09.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

๐Ÿคฉ Working with PARALLEL TEXTS in MFL ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
๐ŸŒ textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...
๐Ÿ“ฐ Parallel text for scaffolded translation activities
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ +TTS audio for dictation/translation combined
๐Ÿ”ฅ Get students working on translation & dictation from the get-go!
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #mflbluesky

18.09.2025 18:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธโœ๏ธ DICTATION on ๐ŸŒ TextActivities ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ”— textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac...

๐Ÿคฉ TONS of examples of scaffolded dictation activities all from the same resource, with links to try each activity for yourself

#mfltwitterati #langchat #flteach #mflchat #mflbluesky

18.09.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exploiting a Model Text to the Max to Promote Productive Skills in MFL When it comes to exploiting texts for language teaching, the choice of text matters. Different types of texts suit different purposes. Some types of text often seen in language teaching...

๐Ÿ”ฅ Exploiting a model text to the max in MFL ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
Using reading, listening, text reconstruction to promote PRODUCTIVE skills
textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m...
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #flteach #mflbluesky

18.09.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assignments on TextActivities This post examines "Assignments" on TextActivities. (For those familiar with Textivate, "assignments" are similar to Textivate's "sequences", but they work very differently. See section 1 (xiii) in...

ASSIGNMENTS on TextActivities:
๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ”— textactivities.posthaven.com/assignments-...
#mfltwitterati #mflbluesky
Info on...
๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŽ“ Via class
๐Ÿงฉ Via resource
๐Ÿ’พ Saved / predefined
โš™๏ธ Parameters
๐Ÿ’ฏ Assessment mode
๐Ÿ‘๏ธ Previews
๐Ÿ“† Due / start date & time
๐ŸŽญ Audience
๐Ÿ“Š Data
๐Ÿง’ Student perspective

๐ŸŽฌ Includes video intro :)

18.09.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Enhancing Language Acquisition Through Combined Dictation-Translation with Scaffolded Activities For language teachers aiming to elevate studentsโ€™ proficiency, combining dictation with translation into the target language (L2) offers a dynamic, dual-prompt approach. Students receive a written...

Enhancing Language Acquisition Through Combined Dictation-Translation with Scaffolded Activities
#mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #flteach #mflbluesky

textactivities.posthaven.com/enhancing-la...

18.09.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Student personal data on TextActivities TextActivities does not store any sensitive data at all. Any student data that is stored relates only to resource or competition points scores and the completion of assignments. Student accounts...

๐Ÿ“Š๐Ÿ‘ซ STUDENT PERSONAL DATA ON TEXTACTIVITIES ๐Ÿ”’
๐Ÿ‘‰ textactivities.posthaven.com/student-pers...
A blog post exploring some alternative ways of identifying students on TextActivities
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #flteach #mflbluesky

18.09.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assignments and Competitions with no due date ASSIGNMENTS &ย ย COMPETITIONS WITH NO DUE DATEย  You can now set assignments with no due date and competitions with no end date / time. You can manually end these using the end...

๐Ÿ“‹ ASSIGNMENTS & ๐Ÿ† COMPETITIONS WITH NO DUE DATE
๐ŸŒŽ textactivities.posthaven.com/assignments-...
๐Ÿ”ฅYou can now set assignments / competitions with no end date. You can manually end these via the teacher tools menu next to each assignment / competition
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky

18.09.2025 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Record your voice and compare RECORD YOUR VOICE & COMPAREย  I've just added something to TextActivities.com that was actually a feature of my [no longer available] authoring software for Windows PC "TaskMagic" years...

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ RECORD YOUR VOICE & COMPARE ๐Ÿคฉ
๐ŸŒŽ textactivities.posthaven.com/record-your-...
โœจStudents can record their voice and play it back so that they can compare their pronunciation with the model provided by the text-to-speech audio
#mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #flteach #mflbluesky

18.09.2025 18:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

๐Ÿ”ฅ On the many ways of practising
๐Ÿ“„โœ๏ธ TRANSLATION into the Target Language
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into:
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท French
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช German
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish
TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
#mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...

19.05.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Click through to try out all sorts of SCAFFOLDED TRANSLATION activities in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท French, ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช German, ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian and ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky
(GCSE translation to L2)

23.03.2025 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Click through to try out all sorts of SCAFFOLDED TRANSLATION activities in ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท French, ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช German, ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian and ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts
(GCSE translation to L2)

23.03.2025 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿ‘‚โœ๏ธ LISTENING practice via DICTATION-like activities from the get-go is likely to produce students with better listening skills
๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac...
๐Ÿคฉ Post includes 28 direct links to different activities on TextActivities

10.02.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

๐Ÿ”ฅ Working with parallel texts in MFL ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

10.02.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

10.03.2025 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

โœจ NEW post on the TextActivities blog on the many ways of practising
๐Ÿ“„โœ๏ธ TRANSLATION into the Target Language ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into:
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท French
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช German
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish
textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...
#mflbluesky

19.03.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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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...

๐Ÿ”ฅ Working with parallel texts in MFL ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

05.02.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

๐Ÿ”ฅ Working with parallel texts in MFL ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

05.02.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ๐Ÿ“„ WORKSHEETS on ๐ŸŒ www.textactivities.com now allow for multiple activities (up to 5) and you can combine text-rebuild and vocab activities on the same worksheet ๐Ÿคฉ #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky

04.02.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exploiting a Model Text to the Max to Promote Productive Skills in MFL When it comes to exploiting texts for language teaching, the choice of text matters. Different types of texts suit different purposes. Some types of text often seen in language teaching...

MFL TEACHERS: On using model texts to develop language competence...
#mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky
It's about way more than just reading / listening comprehension.
And TONS of REPETITION is key ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m...

21.01.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exploiting a Model Text to the Max to Promote Productive Skills in MFL When it comes to exploiting texts for language teaching, the choice of text matters. Different types of texts suit different purposes. Some types of text often seen in language teaching...

โœจ Exploiting a Model Text to the Max to Promote Productive Skills in MFL ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡

When it comes to exploiting texts for language teaching, the choice of text matters...

A post about using model texts to improve productive skills
textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m... #MFLBlueSky #mfltwitterati

16.01.2025 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ New Year's Resolutions โœจ
๐ŸŒ Web link below. Click to play ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
textactivities.com?sample=spani...
๐Ÿคฉ 100+ interactive text rebuild and vocab activities, including all sorts of dictation and translation options, plus multiple printables too!
#mflbluesky #mfltwitterati #TextActivities #langchat

04.01.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ New Year's Resolutions โœจ
๐ŸŒ Web link below. Click to play ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
textactivities.com?sample=spani...
๐Ÿคฉ 100+ interactive text rebuild and vocab activities, including all sorts of dictation and translation options, plus multiple printables too!
#mflbluesky #mfltwitterati #TextActivities #langchat

04.01.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿš€ Speedread = Rebuild the text using the multiple choice options. Each section is against the clock. 3 lives in total. How far can you get?

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท "Ma routine, passรฉ composรฉ" - Speedread
๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
www.textactivities.com?sample=frenc...

#MFLBlueSky #mfltwitterati

27.12.2024 18:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Tout ce que je veux pour Noรซl... ๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽโ›„๏ธโ„๏ธ

Jigsaw rebuild (12) - Click below to try it yourself:
๐Ÿ‘‰ textactivities.com?sample=frenc...

(Then click on "Activities" to access the other activities available)

#mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #TextActivities #mflbluesky

15.12.2024 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Comparing TextActivities and Textivate TextActivities is a new website which includes a lot of the functionality of Textivate. Itย is essentially Textivate 2.0, but with so many changes from the original that we had no option but to...

Comparing the NEW(-ish) TextActivities with the original Textivate
๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
textactivities.posthaven.com/comparing-te... #MFLBlueSky
TextActivities is a MUCH better option for setting assignments and competitions for class/homework

02.12.2024 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท French sample resource: "Ma routine, passรฉ composรฉ"

www.textactivities.com?sample=frenc...

Resource includes:
โ€ข a short French text
โ€ข a translation into English
โ€ข vocab matching items
โ€ข 100+ different activity configurations

#MFLBlueSky

02.12.2024 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โœจ New ๐Ÿ“Š POINTS DATA tab added to each class, so teachers can see students ranked by interactions & performance over a specific period
๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡
๐ŸŒ TextActivities.com

#mflbluesky #mflchat #langchat

11.12.2024 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿ‘‚โœ๏ธ Listening practice via dictation-like activities from the get-go is likely to produce students with better listening skills
๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac...
๐Ÿคฉ Post includes 28 direct links to different activities on TextActivities

12.12.2024 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@textactivities is following 20 prominent accounts