Click here to see Text Match sceenshots.
Click here to see Picture Match screenshots.
Click here to see Sound Match screenshots.
Click here to see Pic-Sound screenshots.
Click here to see Grid Match screenshots.
Click here to see Mix & Gap screenshots.
Click here to see Dialogues screenshots.
Click here to see Multi-Choice screenshots.
Click here to find out how to order TaskMagic.
Click here to view the order form in Welsh.
Click here to find out about prices and licences.
Click here to access the TaskMagic2 Trial Download
Click here to access the free 'Home Use Only' pupil version of TaskMagic Play.
Click here to download ready-made games and exercises.
Click here for some other free stuff.
Click here to read reviews, testimonials and feedback on TaskMagic.
Contact Us
Australasia Customers please click here for contact and website info.
Click here to update your version of TaskMagic or to read about the latest additions.
 
TaskMagic Reviews
See below for reviews of TaskMagic...
TaskMagic2 was on Stand SW137 at BETT 2008.
BETT is the UK's biggest event for technology in education.
See our entry on the BETT website.
We were on stand 13 at the Languages Show, Olympia, London.
TaskMagic2 was launched in January 2007 at BETT 2007.
 
TaskMagic1 Reviews
The reviews below are all regarding the previous version of TaskMagic: TaskMagic1. TaskMagic2 has many new games and features making it a much bigger and better resource.
TaskMagic is mentioned in 5 of the Languages ICT Action Research Projects carried out by teachers in secondary schools in England. It is the central focus of the Crofton School project. Click here to go to the Action Research pages of the Languages ICT website.
TaskMagic was featured in a Modern Languages ICT Special Resource Review on Teachers' TV. This was first aired in November 2006. Click here to see the video on the Teachers' TV website.
TaskMagic was mentioned in two separate articles in the Guardian e-valuate publication on 18/10/05. One of the articles is about using software and games in the languages class, and the other is about teaching languages in Primary Schools.
TaskMagic is featured on CILT’s Languages-ICT website in the sections on “Being an innovator”, “Taking ICT Further” and “Deepening expertise”.
TaskMagic is featured in a CILT publication on using digital language labs in MFL teaching. Click here to see the publication in PDF format (requires acrobat reader).
TaskMagic is eligible for e-learning credits and is featured on the Curriculum Online website, where a review has been written by Lizzie Hoskins.
TaskMagic was recommended several times on the ICT Advice site - Ask an Expert - MFL. We used to have links to the recommendations on the ICT Advice site, but the site has been decommissioned and the information can no longer be located:(
TaskMagic was recommended in the Specialist School’s Trust Language Colleges conference in Lille 2005 (wrongly attributed to Linguascope, who re-sell TaskMagic for us). Click here to see the PowerPoint presentation delivered by Paul Keogh.
TaskMagic was recommended at the Specialist School’s Trust Languages Update 2004. Click here to see the article in PDF format (requires acrobat reader).
The Ashcombe School in Surrey is a Specialist Language College which has published reviews of a wide range of software titles used in their MFL department. Click here to read their review of TaskMagic. The website also contains links to many useful Web resources for MFL teachers.
TaskMagic (then called TaskMaster) was featured in the TES Online BETT Preview (02/01/04) and was listed as one of the TOP 3 products to see at BETT for teachers of Modern Languages.
TaskMagic was featured in the Education Guardian Evaluate Supplement (06/01/04) in an article about using interactive whiteboards to enthuse all pupils in MFL learning. Click here to read the Guardian Evaluate article.
TaskMagic was featured in the TES Teacher MFL Curriculum Special (07/05/04) in a review by Alison Thomas. Click here to read the TES Teacher review.
 
TaskMagic Quotes
The following are genuine quotes from TaskMagic1 users or people who have seen it in action. We stopped adding to this list a couple of years ago as we felt it was in danger of taking over the site! Of course, don’t take their word for it…try out the free 30-day trial of TaskMagic2 for yourself. With loads more game formats and new features, TaskMagic2 has a lot more to offer than the TaskMagic versions that the users below were commenting on.
“An excellent product.”
“A wonderful product!”
“Very good value for money.”
“The games are brilliant!”
“It is extremely easy to learn how to create the files.”
“I really enjoyed the variety of games.”
“Very easy to create tasks quickly, just before a lesson – including ease of inserting pictures and sound.”
“Pupil response: Excellent, from boys and girls. They love the challenge and the feedback, and get very competitive.”
“TaskMagic is easy to use and very useful in language teaching. The interactivity enables me to easily develop exercises for use with an electronic whiteboard.”
“Pupils love playing the games, which test mouse control and speed of response as well as understanding!”
“Tasks are easy to create, making it a valuable teaching resource in our MFL lessons in the computer room.”
“Lots of staff are keen to use TaskMagic and the only problem is students expect to see it as a starter all the time!”
“TaskMagic is going down very well indeed with students and I am using it very frequently also on the interactive whiteboard.”
“We have no hesitation in recommending TaskMagic. Its professional layout and the variety of tasks on this excellent program are a fantastic motivational tool in language learning.”
“Thanks for a highly motivating programme.”
“An extremely satisfied user.”
“TaskMagic is a reliable and extremely useful programme that everyone here loves to use.”
“The only problem is keeping it from other subject teachers!”
“I appreciate the personal service and regular updates.”
“Thanks for TaskMagic - it has certainly helped me keep pupils interested.”
“I am looking forward to demonstrating this to my
PGCE students. I think they will be very excited by it.”
“Wow! I'm really impressed with this!“
“TaskMagic is fab!”
“My primary colleagues are absolutely delighted”
“I think it's brilliant, so versatile and easy to create fun activities for all ages and abilities of students.”
“At my school languages teachers
are very impressed with the software.”
“I am thrilled with your program.”
“I have heard great things about TaskMagic”
“As far as I'm concerned, it's the best value for money I've ever had. Just buy it - you won't regret it! Promise!”
“Since receiving the CD yesterday, I have started to make my own German resources and it is
delightfully easy.”
“Pupils become very competitive to try and complete
the exercise correctly and in the quickest time.”
“Using a games package to teach Modern Foreign
Languages has got the whole class enthused.”
“Works for all years and abilities”
“I use TaskMagic now and think it's wonderful”
“Splitting texts up and putting them back together is good for AS.”
“It really gets them thinking about
the structure of sentences.”
“It’s a way of turning something quite boring into something exciting.”
“Even as the school day draws to a close,
volunteers clamour to come up to the front.”
“Well done. A very impressive piece of software.”
“I have lots of departments now using TaskMagic -
they think it's brilliant!!”
“TaskMagic is being used extensively throughout the
school - and I am receiving lots of positive feedback -
Thanks for creating a great resource!”
“Teams - boys against girls - become fiercely
competitive, desperate to better a previous score.”
“For boys, this competitive element can be particularly appealing.”
“A great-value authoring package
that works in any language.”
“I would like a trial CD of this software everybody is talking about at the moment!!”
“Another time-saving tool that takes the sting out of lesson preparation.”
If you would like to give us your feedback on any aspect of TaskMagic, let us know what you think by emailing us.
Click here to go to the TaskMagic Home Page.