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

E-learning in practice | Working with text | Jumbled text activities | Which tool?

• 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

Which tool?

Create these activities using a word processor for paper or computer use. It is easy for learners to move text around and re-order sentences in Word, then print out or e-mail their version.

There are specific authoring tools for this, such as Fun with Texts and TaskMagic, which semi-automate the process for you. MALTED provides a word re-ordering template which achieves the same objectives.

Note that you can use jumbled pictures to be re-sorted according to the understanding of a written text or a sound file. You can also ask learners to re-sort jumbled audio or video clips. Some of the same tools can be used, although they may present more of a challenge. MALTED may help here.

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

• Anagrams
• Daily routines
• Re-ordering sentences.