National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeModern Foreign Languages
Continuing professional development activities toolkit

E-learning in practice | Working with text | Gap-filling activities | Other tools

• Introduction
• Using software
• Presentations
• Working with text
  • Introduction
  • Creating flashcards
  • Gap-filling activities
  • Multiple choice
  • Matching
  • Jumbled text activities
  • Story starter and skeletons
  • Describing or comparing pictures
  • Other activities
• Working with images
• Working with sound
• Working with television and video
• Using the Internet
• Authoring

Other tools

In the Authoring section of this CD-ROM there are further suggestions on how to create your own materials.

Gap filling is a routine addressed by several programs specific to language learning, such as TaskMagic, Fun with Texts, the WIDA suite and Hot Potatoes. These are given as examples only - there are many others. Using the last one of these, you can choose which words learners will need to supply.

Tools such as TaskMagic or Fun With Texts, give the option of automatically deleting words at fixed intervals (though under your control) to make a Cloze test.

You can find practical suggestions on using these techniques in the following activity on the Learner activities toolkit CD-ROM:

• Anagrams
• Music and songs
• What's missing?