textThing MFL

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KS2 - Higher Level (Years 3 - 13)

Modern foreign languages & ICT

This product is published by Topologika Software Ltd (Tel: 01273 863606)

TextThing MFL is a very powerful program. If you are a specialist teacher of Modern Foreign Languages and you have a desire to offer your pupils differentiated onscreen text tasks that stimulate and motivate this is the package for you. You will need to spend an hour or two familiarising yourself with all the possibilities offered by this extensive software and learning how to use the package. Use the already installed text in a choice of ten European languages as a starter and then import your own text and pass it over to the program to turn it into ready to use activities. An excellent and fun program to aid in the teaching of MFL.

I used this program with a class of Year 4 children who had started learning French at the beginning of the school year. Because of this I initially used the activities on the interactive whiteboard before allowing the children to have a go individually. The children were familiar with the type of activities provided as they mirror those they complete in literacy word and sentence level work. As they were beginners the children found some of the activities difficult, but I think the program will come into its own when they have more experience of the French language, and we look forward to trying some of the other activities which include crosswords, word searches, rebuilding texts word by word and punctuation.