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Martin Lapworth

@martinlapworth.bsky.social
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Previously head of MFL. Escaped to Spain (2004) with TaskMagic. Author of Textivate.com (2012), TeachVid.com (2019), SentenceBuilders.com (2021), TextActivities.com (2023) #MFLBlueSky

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José García @misterjgarcia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No dar asco y no ser racista es siempre la opción correcta. Ah, y no dejar de hablar de lo del ático de Ayuso.
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🤩 SB users can now add a copy of their Sentence Builder table (with or without translation) to their worksheets on SentenceBuilders.com #MFLBlueSky 👇👇👇
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🤩 SB users can now add a copy of their Sentence Builder table (with or without translation) to their worksheets on SentenceBuilders.com #MFLBlueSky 👇👇👇
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
✨ Check out this sample 🇪🇸 Spanish 📋 assignment on TextActivities 🤩 You can create your own like this, with any combination of activities, based on any short text + vocab #mflbluesky #langchat #mflchat #flteach 👇👇👇 www.textactivities.com/assignment-s...
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TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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SentenceBuilders @sentencebuilders.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
✨ NEW 🇩🇪 German 🕖 Time machine :) 👇👇👇 🌎 www.sentencebuilders.com/resource/91508 (requires login) #mflbluesky
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SentenceBuilders @sentencebuilders.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
✨NEW for TRILOGY - Part 1 - French / German / Spanish 👇👇 ℹ️ "Deconstructed" = a separate folder for each unit of Trilogy part 1, with smaller SBs building up to the main SB for the unit, making it easier to teach / practise / set assignments throughout the unit :) #mflbluesky
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Ignacio Regulez Trenado @ignacioregulez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Los carroñeros siempre buscan rédito en las desgracias - www.diario-red.com/opinion/juan...
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Los carroñeros siempre buscan rédito en las desgracias
Cuando el ‘shock’ era tan grande que ni las lágrimas brotaban, la calaña levantó las pocetas para brotar en un escenario de paz durante el duelo  
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 24/01/2026
BREAKING: The ayatollah of Iran says he is weighing up the possibility of a war of liberation if ICE agents don't stop murdering peaceful protesters in the US
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Canal Red @canalredtv.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
La llegada de migrantes a España experimenta su mayor caída desde 2019, diga lo que diga tu primo de VOX Pablo Hurtado y Alejandra Martínez hablan de medios y miedos 👇🏽 📺 INVIERNO ROJO | youtube.com/live/7A9AeWf...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🎇2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ FREE 🇪🇸 SPANISH resource with 100+ interactive activity configurations + printables, all about NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS (lots of practice of expressions + infinitive, e.g. voy a, quiero, me gustaría, tengo la intención de, etc) textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky
textactivities.com
TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🎇2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ FREE 🇫🇷 FRENCH resource with 100+ interactive activity configurations + printables, all about NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS (lots of practice of expressions + infinitive, e.g. je vais, je voudrais, je veux, j'ai l'intention de, etc) textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky
textactivities.com
TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🎇2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ FREE 🇫🇷 FRENCH resource with 100+ interactive activity configurations + printables, all about NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS (lots of practice of expressions + infinitive, e.g. je vais, je voudrais, je veux, j'ai l'intention de, etc) textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky
textactivities.com
TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🎇2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ FREE 🇪🇸 SPANISH resource with 100+ interactive activity configurations + printables, all about NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS (lots of practice of expressions + infinitive, e.g. voy a, quiero, me gustaría, tengo la intención de, etc) textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky
textactivities.com
TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🎅🎄 Here's a FREE 🇫🇷 French XMAS resource with access to 100+ interactive activity configurations + multiple printables. It's about what you'd like for Christmas. (Also includes a SB on the same theme) 🔗👉 www.textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #flteach #mflbluesky
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🇪🇸 "El descubrimiento" por Eduardo Galeano 📜 A poem for "el día de la hispanidad" 🙃 Gap-fill activity (click below to access)👇👇👇 textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #flteach
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TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Here's a sample assignment in 🇪🇸 Spanish based on a resource called "Una carta de Elena". It has 8 activities, as listed in the image below. Ss can look at the "resource preview" before they begin 👇👇👇 📋🔗 textactivities.com/assignment-s... #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #flteach #mflbluesky
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
e.g. Here's a link to a single activity "Jumbled Words" assignment in 🇫🇷 French, where Ss rebuild a text about HALLOWEEN, with L1 parallel text + TTS audio for support. It is in "Assessment Mode" + includes a resource preview: www.textactivities.com/assignment-s... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat
textactivities.com
TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🤩 I've just added to TextActivities.com a way for me to share links to sample 📋 ASSIGNMENTS, so non-subscribers can get a feel for what they are like. 🤔 Now, how best to make use of that, I wonder...? #mfltwitterati #langchat #flteach #mflchat #mflbluesky
textactivities.com
TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/09/04/h...
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How the manufactured narrative of 'failure' is distracting us from resolving the systemic problems holding back the study of Modern Languages - Part One. - HEPI
This post was kindly written by Vincent Everett, who is head of languages in a comprehensive school and sixth form in Norfolk. He blogs as The Nice Man Who Teaches Languages. We have to bring an end t...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🤩 I've just added to TextActivities.com a way for me to share links to sample 📋 ASSIGNMENTS, so non-subscribers can get a feel for what they are like. 🤔 Now, how best to make use of that, I wonder...? #mfltwitterati #langchat #flteach #mflchat #mflbluesky
textactivities.com
TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it. Join us and let's make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk
Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔥 On the many ways of practising 📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities of translation into 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇪🇸 Spanish TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇 textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-... #mflbluesky #mfltwitterati
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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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🤖🪄 Using AI to generate a TextActivities resource 🌍 textactivities.posthaven.com/a-first-atte... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #mflbluesky 🇪🇸 Spanish text 🇬🇧 English translation 🔀 Matching vocab chunks Resource with 100+ interactive activities 😍 🎬 Includes video demo👏👏👏
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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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🤩 Working with PARALLEL TEXTS in MFL 👇👇👇 🌏 textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with... 📰 Parallel text for scaffolded translation activities 🗣️ +TTS audio for dictation/translation combined 🔥 Get students working on translation & dictation from the get-go! #mfltwitterati #mflchat #mflbluesky
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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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🗣️✍️ DICTATION on 🌍 TextActivities 👇👇👇 🔗 textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac... 🤩 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
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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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔥 Exploiting a model text to the max in MFL 👇👇👇 Using reading, listening, text reconstruction to promote PRODUCTIVE skills textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #flteach #mflbluesky
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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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ASSIGNMENTS on TextActivities: 🌎🔗 textactivities.posthaven.com/assignments-... #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky Info on... 👩‍🎓 Via class 🧩 Via resource 💾 Saved / predefined ⚙️ Parameters 💯 Assessment mode 👁️ Previews 📆 Due / start date & time 🎭 Audience 📊 Data 🧒 Student perspective 🎬 Includes video intro :)
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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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Enhancing Language Acquisition Through Combined Dictation-Translation with Scaffolded Activities #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #flteach #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/enhancing-la...
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Enhancing Language Acquisition Through Combined Dictation-Translation with Scaffolded Activities
For language teachers aiming to elevate students’ proficiency, combining dictation with translation into the target language (L2) offers a dynamic, dual-prompt approach. Students receive a written...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📊👫 STUDENT PERSONAL DATA ON TEXTACTIVITIES 🔒 👉 textactivities.posthaven.com/student-pers... A blog post exploring some alternative ways of identifying students on TextActivities #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #flteach #mflbluesky
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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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📋 ASSIGNMENTS & 🏆 COMPETITIONS WITH NO DUE DATE 🌎 textactivities.posthaven.com/assignments-... 🔥You 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
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Assignments and Competitions with no due date
ASSIGNMENTS &  COMPETITIONS WITH NO DUE DATE  You can now set assignments with no due date and competitions with no end date / time. You can manually end these using the end...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🎙️ RECORD YOUR VOICE & COMPARE 🤩 🌎 textactivities.posthaven.com/record-your-... ✨Students 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
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Record your voice and compare
RECORD YOUR VOICE & COMPARE  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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🎙️ RECORD YOUR VOICE & COMPARE 🤩 🌎 textactivities.posthaven.com/record-your-... ✨Students 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
textactivities.posthaven.com
Record your voice and compare
RECORD YOUR VOICE & COMPARE  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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📋 ASSIGNMENTS & 🏆 COMPETITIONS WITH NO DUE DATE 🌎 textactivities.posthaven.com/assignments-... 🔥You 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
textactivities.posthaven.com
Assignments and Competitions with no due date
ASSIGNMENTS &  COMPETITIONS WITH NO DUE DATE  You can now set assignments with no due date and competitions with no end date / time. You can manually end these using the end...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
📊👫 STUDENT PERSONAL DATA ON TEXTACTIVITIES 🔒 👉 textactivities.posthaven.com/student-pers... A blog post exploring some alternative ways of identifying students on TextActivities #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #flteach #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com
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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Enhancing Language Acquisition Through Combined Dictation-Translation with Scaffolded Activities #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #flteach #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/enhancing-la...
textactivities.posthaven.com
Enhancing Language Acquisition Through Combined Dictation-Translation with Scaffolded Activities
For language teachers aiming to elevate students’ proficiency, combining dictation with translation into the target language (L2) offers a dynamic, dual-prompt approach. Students receive a written...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ASSIGNMENTS on TextActivities: 🌎🔗 textactivities.posthaven.com/assignments-... #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky Info on... 👩‍🎓 Via class 🧩 Via resource 💾 Saved / predefined ⚙️ Parameters 💯 Assessment mode 👁️ Previews 📆 Due / start date & time 🎭 Audience 📊 Data 🧒 Student perspective 🎬 Includes video intro :)
textactivities.posthaven.com
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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔥 Exploiting a model text to the max in MFL 👇👇👇 Using reading, listening, text reconstruction to promote PRODUCTIVE skills textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #flteach #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com
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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🗣️✍️ DICTATION on 🌍 TextActivities 👇👇👇 🔗 textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac... 🤩 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
textactivities.posthaven.com
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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🤩 Working with PARALLEL TEXTS in MFL 👇👇👇 🌏 textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with... 📰 Parallel text for scaffolded translation activities 🗣️ +TTS audio for dictation/translation combined 🔥 Get students working on translation & dictation from the get-go! #mfltwitterati #mflchat #mflbluesky
textactivities.posthaven.com
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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🤖🪄 Using AI to generate a TextActivities resource 🌍 textactivities.posthaven.com/a-first-atte... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #mflbluesky 🇪🇸 Spanish text 🇬🇧 English translation 🔀 Matching vocab chunks Resource with 100+ interactive activities 😍 🎬 Includes video demo👏👏👏
textactivities.posthaven.com
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...
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔥 On the many ways of practising 📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities of translation into 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇪🇸 Spanish TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇 textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-... #mflbluesky #mfltwitterati
textactivities.posthaven.com
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...
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Another Angry Voice @anotherangryvoice.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Melody Valois @melodyvalois.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Love this! The Caterpillar game is such a versatile and engaging tool, great for reinforcing vocab and grammar in a fun way. Thanks for sharing the different modes, can’t wait to try them out with my classes! 🐛💬 #mflbluesky #mfltwitterati #langchat
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🆕 🐛 CATERPILLAR game on TextActivities.com 🤩 Available as 1⃣ matching (x6 modes) 2⃣ random gapfill 3⃣ user-defined gapfill (see pic) Try the activity from the pic on this link 👇👇👇 www.textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🆕 ✨ MC MAZE game on TextActivities.com 🤩 Available as 1⃣ matching (x6 modes) 2⃣ random gapfill 3⃣ user-defined gapfill Try the 🇪🇸 Spanish game from pic 1 on this link 👇👇👇 textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🆕 🐛 CATERPILLAR game on TextActivities.com 🤩 Available as 1⃣ matching (x6 modes) 2⃣ random gapfill 3⃣ user-defined gapfill (see pic) Try the activity from the pic on this link 👇👇👇 www.textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky
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Martin Lapworth @martinlapworth.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🆕 ✨ MC MAZE game on TextActivities.com 🤩 Available as 1⃣ matching (x6 modes) 2⃣ random gapfill 3⃣ user-defined gapfill Try the 🇪🇸 Spanish game from pic 1 on this link 👇👇👇 textactivities.com/resource-sam... #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #mflbluesky
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DN Michael, Prof de français @madamednmichael.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
#LangChat
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