Over the weekend Joe Dale introduced me to Ultratext and its partner app, PicPlayPost. I've been having a play with them and thought I'd show you some ideas for how you could use them in the languages classroom.
1. Reading out loud and/or translating sentences:
2. Reading sentences out loud, substituting words for pictures as necessary:
It's easy to colour code masculine and feminine words and other word classes.
3. Practising numbers. Say the numbers out loud as you see them. You may miss some the first few times but will get better the more times you see it:
4. Odd one out. Which is the odd one out of these four Spanish articles? There may be more than one possible answer, but as long as you can justify your answer grammatically you will be correct:
5. Look at the pictures and say the correct words. It will take a while to be able to say all the words:
6. Import Ultratexts into PicPlayPost alongside a picture. Which sentence describes the picture? Alternatively there could be a scrolling sentence alongside 4 pictures. PicPlayPost has lots of different frames.
7. Import Ultratexts into PicPlayPost and ask children to answer questions. You could number each square but I think it's more effective to do each group of words in one colour, as I have here, so that the children can give a colour for their answer:
a. Who likes milk?
b. Who likes cheese?
c. Who likes fish?
d. Who likes pasta?
e. Who likes bread?
I hope these examples have given you some ideas that you can use with your classes. Of course the children can use them to create language for you or for their classmates as well. I'd be interested to hear what you have done with these apps.
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