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Martin Lapworth
@martinlapworth.bsky.social
Previously head of MFL. Escaped to Spain (2004) with TaskMagic. Author of Textivate.com (2012), TeachVid.com (2019), SentenceBuilders.com (2021), TextActivities.com (2023)
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🇪🇸 "El descubrimiento" por Eduardo Galeano

📜 A poem for "el día de la hispanidad" 🙃

Gap-fill activity (click below to access)👇👇👇
textactivities.com/resource-sam...

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TextActivities: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
textactivities.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
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
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📋🔗 textactivities.com/assignment-s...

#mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #flteach #mflbluesky
October 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
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: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
www.textactivities.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
🤩 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: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
TextActivities.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🤩 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: the ultimate text activities tool!
The multi-skill text-exploitation tool for language teachers
TextActivities.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
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Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🔥 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-...
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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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
🤖🪄 Using AI to generate a TextActivities resource
🌍 textactivities.posthaven.com/a-first-atte...
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🇪🇸 Spanish text
🇬🇧 English translation
🔀 Matching vocab chunks
Resource with 100+ interactive activities 😍
🎬 Includes video demo👏👏👏
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
🤩 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
🗣️✍️ 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
🔥 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
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 :)
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
📊👫 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
📋 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Martin Lapworth
🎙️ 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🎙️ 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
📋 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
📊👫 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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 :)
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🔥 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🗣️✍️ 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🤩 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
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...
textactivities.posthaven.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM