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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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French
Football Game: Christmas / Daily
Routine |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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NO
PASSWORD IS REQUIRED FOR TMDEMO – no need to contact us. |
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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. |
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TaskMagic
files are designed to run on Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME or XP |
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If
you do not have WinZip (or similar) on your computer, you can get
it from http://www.winzip.com |
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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 |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Fr_Perf_Imperf.doc |
One
A4 page: Comparison, use and formation of the Perfect and Imperfect
Tenses. |
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Fr_Simplification.doc |
Two
A4 pages: Simplified aid to recognition and construction of Present,
Perfect, Imperfect, Pluperfect, Future, Simple Future and Conditional
Tenses. |
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FrenchFunctions.doc |
Two
A4 pages: Simple language functions broken down and translated into
French. |
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Fr_Indic_Prons.doc |
One
A4 page: Grid of articles and possessive adjectives etc. Subject,
Direct Object and Indirect Object Pronouns. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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This
can be printed, but from my experience it is best used as follows: |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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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”). |
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Text-to-Speech
(TTS) Software can help students to hear correct pronunciations
for their individual speaking test answers. |
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Speakonia
is a free piece of TTS software available from CFS-Technologies: http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4 |
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Voice engines for French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and British English can be downloaded from the same page. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Other
ideas |
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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. |
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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. |
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