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TASKMAGIC FREE EXE FILE DOWNLOADS
French Jumping Game: être et avoir - present tense practice
The link is to a 92K exe file. Right-click and save to your computer. 800 x 600 pixels.
A prototype of a new game to be added to TaskMagic2 as a free update. The aim is to steer the little man to the letter containing the correct answer. Use the left and right arrow keys to go left / right and the up arrow to jump.
French Football Game: être, avoir, aller, faire - present tense practice
The link is to a 630K exe file. Right-click and save to your computer. 800 x 600 pixels.
The download contains 2 games practising verbs in the present tense. Choose between a timed game or a first to... game, then press start. Get the correct match to pass the ball or shoot. Short passes / shots are more successful than longer ones. You can't shoot from kick-off.
Christmas Jumping Game: French / Spanish
Each link is to a 92K exe file. Right-click and save to your computer. 800 x 600 pixels.
A prototype of a new game to be added to TaskMagic2 as a free update. The aim is to steer the little man to the letter containing the correct answer. Use the left and right arrow keys to go left / right and the up arrow to jump.

French Football Game: Christmas / Daily Routine
Each link is to a 360K exe file. Right-click and save to your computer. 800 x 600 pixels.
Choose between a timed game or a first to... game, then press start. Get the correct match to pass the ball or shoot. Short passes / shots are more successful than longer ones. You can't shoot from kick-off.

World-Cup Football Game: French / Spanish
Each link is to a 630K exe file. Right-click and save to your computer. 800 x 600 pixels.
The downloads contain 2 games practising football vocabulary, 1 for describing a team and 1 for describing a game after the event. Choose between a timed game or a first to... game, then press start. Get the correct match to pass the ball or shoot. Short passes / shots are more successful than longer ones. You can't shoot from kick-off.
TaskMagic
The équipe nouvelle avec TaskMagic CDs contain stand-alone packages of TaskMagic1 games and activities created specifically to complement the équipe nouvelle 1, 2 and 3 course books from Oxford University Press.
Each équipe nouvelle avec TaskMagic CD contains approximately 180 separate TaskMagic files, each of which consists of up to 14 different games and exercises.The équipe nouvelle avec TaskMagic CDs do not require the user to have the TaskMagic programs on their computer, as the packages contain their own version of the TaskMagic1 software, although those who have the TaskMagic2 software can also access the files using TaskMagic2 and gain access to a wider range of exercises. Below you will find a link to a free demo of the équipe nouvelle 1 avec TaskMagic package.
Below is a link to download a free demo of équipe nouvelle 1 avec TaskMagic. This demo contains 15 exercise files (161 different games) taken from various units of équipe nouvelle 1. Anyone can download it free of charge and use it at home or at school. You cannot create your own exercises with this demo, and you cannot use it to access TaskMagic games other than those accompanying the demo.
NO PASSWORD IS REQUIRED FOR THE ENTM1DEMO – no need to contact us. 
The downloaded file is a compressed file (ENTM1DemoSetup.exe). Once it is downloaded, it will install the équipe nouvelle 1 avec TaskMagic Demo software on your computer. You may be given the option to run or to save the file when you click on the download link. If you choose to run the programme, the installation will begin as soon as the file is downloaded. If you choose to save the file, you can specify a place to save it to on your computer. Once the download is complete, you will need to run the file at some point to install the software on your computer.
NB: TaskMagic files are designed to run on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME or XP
 
TMDemo
Free French Holidays Demo
Below is a link to download a free TMDemo based on the TaskMagic1 software. The language of the demo is French and the content is holidays: past and present.
The demo contains about 40 free exercises. Any one can download it free of charge and use it at home or at school. You cannot create your own exercises with this demo, and you cannot use it to access TaskMagic games other than those accompanying the demo.
NO PASSWORD IS REQUIRED FOR TMDEMO – no need to contact us.
The downloaded file is a compressed file (TM2Demo.zip). You must unzip the downloaded file before you can use it on your PC. Double-click on TMDemo.exe to run the programme.
TaskMagic files are designed to run on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME or XP
If you do not have WinZip (or similar) on your computer, you can get it from http://www.winzip.com
All versions of TaskMagic require Windows Media Player. This is present on almost all Windows machines. If you do not have Windows Media Player on your computer, you can download it free of charge from http://www.microsoft.com
TaskMagic based programmes will not run without the VB6 runtime files. Many Windows machines (especially XP) will already have all the VB6 runtime files installed. If, however, you experience any technical difficulties or error messages when you try to run this demo, this may indicate that you need to download the VB6 runtime files (free) from Microsoft. Click here to download the VB6 runtime files from Microsoft.
NonTMFreebies
NON-TASKMAGIC FREE STUFF THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE SITE...
The files below have been on our website for ages, and since people are still downloading them, we thought we may as well include them again. Somebody is obviously finding them useful.
FrenchDocs.zip contains the following Word Documents (see download below):
Fr_Verb_Tables.doc
One A4 page: A brief summary of the 3 main regular verb groups as well as some of the most common irregular verbs. Listings of the six parts of the present tense and past participles. Subject and Reflexive Pronouns. Step-by-step instructions on how to form the Perfect Tense.
Fr_Perf_Imperf.doc
One A4 page: Comparison, use and formation of the Perfect and Imperfect Tenses.
Fr_Simplification.doc
Two A4 pages: Simplified aid to recognition and construction of Present, Perfect, Imperfect, Pluperfect, Future, Simple Future and Conditional Tenses.
FrenchFunctions.doc
Two A4 pages: Simple language functions broken down and translated into French.
Fr_Indic_Prons.doc
One A4 page: Grid of articles and possessive adjectives etc. Subject, Direct Object and Indirect Object Pronouns.
GCSE_Vocab_Booklet.doc
A 20 page booklet containing all of the above as well as vocabulary sections aimed at helping students to write about events in the past. Particularly useful for preparing for coursework on past holidays etc. Vocab lists contain information about verb types and auxiliaries.
fl_characters.doc
One A4 page: A list of Keyboard Shortcuts for all of the letters and symbols required for French, Spanish, German, and probably more besides.
FrenchConv.doc
6 pages: This is a protected word document (forms protected: password = mflteacher). I have chosen to leave it protected so that students cannot inadvertently delete questions etc. The document contains questions broken down into the six conversation themes from the AQA GCSE specification A.
This can be printed, but from my experience it is best used as follows:
Copy the document to an area of the school server where students have read-access only.
They open the document and save it in their own user area (using File, Save As)
You can prepare answers in class as soon as you cover one of the questions from the six areas.
They can type up their work in the computer room or at home and have a permanent record of their speaking preparation.
They can use Text-to-Speech software to help them with pronunciation (see reference to Text-to-Speech below).
You can link the questions on the document to your Scheme of Work (see below).
You should use these very questions for the Speaking Test itself (see question list below).
FrenchConvQuestionList.doc
One A4 page: This contains all of the questions from the document above on one page so that teachers can use these questions for the speaking exam.
FR_KS4_SOW_Summary.doc
An example of a simple Scheme of Work linking the questions from the FrenchConv documents above and the AQA GCSE specification A coursework titles with the units of a text book (in this case Francoscope à la Mode – not the new one “pour AQA”).
Text-to-Speech (TTS) Software can help students to hear correct pronunciations for their individual speaking test answers.
Speakonia is a free piece of TTS software available from CFS-Technologies:
http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4

Voice engines for French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and British English can be downloaded from the same page.

You can copy and paste text into Speakonia and play it back. If you register Speakonia (free to do, does not generate any junk mail) you also have the facility to save your text as a WAV file.
You can create a Web page with links for all of the questions and answers from the FrenchConv documents above. See the example using the link below. Students can save their own version of the Web page and create WAV files using Speakonia. As long as they save their WAV files in the same folder as the Web page, all of the links will work (although none of them work at present as there are no sound files). The page contains instructions on file names for the WAV files. Once they have done this, students can choose a question by clicking on the link, they can then test themselves to see if they can give a correct response, and they can check their spoken answer against the one they have prepared using Speakonia and the FrenchConv document.
NB: You will need to unprotect FrenchConv.doc (Tools, Unprotect Document: password = mflteacher) if you want them to be able to copy and paste the questions into Speakonia.
Other ideas
And of course, you can use TaskMagic to create your own exercises based on core GCSE vocabulary, high frequency words etc. using Text Match, Picture Match, Sound Match or Pic-Sound. You can use Mix & Gap to prepare sample answer texts for spoken and written work or to revise topic vocabulary and structures in context. You can even include a sound file to give students more exposure to longer spoken texts and help them prepare for the listening exam. Dialogues can be used to create role-play practice activities, with or without sound. Multi-choice listening and reading activities can be prepared using Multi-Choice. And you can revise and practise verb grammar using Grid Match.
Students can download the “free for home use” version of TaskMagic Play and use it at home to do exercises that you or they have created at school. You can make TaskMagic exercises available to students from your school website or on disk.
Click here to go to the TaskMagic Home Page.