http://www.tapis.com.au/studentbook2/
This is just a quick post to point you to a site from Australia which has just come to my attention. It's not new, dating from 2007, but it contains useful interactive material for beginners up to low intermediate level (KS3 in England and Wales).
It's called Tapis Volant (2). Try clicking on the Students link in the toolbar to get to two levels of exercises. Each unit has a short listening task (no interactivity), with grammar and vocab sections. The grammar tasks are quite brief and involve, for example, interactive matching and gap filling. Some of the vocabulary activities no longer work it seems, so this looks like an old site that has been left online. Australian teachers may know if it was once a pay site.
I could imagine the site being used for its short listening extracts accompanied by a picture. They are clear but, annoyingly, you cannot pause and rewind the text. You can choose between written text on and off. The site uses Flash so is dated and will be useless on an iPad. The text would be too small to easily read if displayed on a screen and cannot be enlarged to full screen.
Keen students could use it for independent revision and practice.
Bits and pieces could be worked into your existing scheme of work. Do have a peep and see what you think.
This is just a quick post to point you to a site from Australia which has just come to my attention. It's not new, dating from 2007, but it contains useful interactive material for beginners up to low intermediate level (KS3 in England and Wales).
It's called Tapis Volant (2). Try clicking on the Students link in the toolbar to get to two levels of exercises. Each unit has a short listening task (no interactivity), with grammar and vocab sections. The grammar tasks are quite brief and involve, for example, interactive matching and gap filling. Some of the vocabulary activities no longer work it seems, so this looks like an old site that has been left online. Australian teachers may know if it was once a pay site.
I could imagine the site being used for its short listening extracts accompanied by a picture. They are clear but, annoyingly, you cannot pause and rewind the text. You can choose between written text on and off. The site uses Flash so is dated and will be useless on an iPad. The text would be too small to easily read if displayed on a screen and cannot be enlarged to full screen.
Keen students could use it for independent revision and practice.
Bits and pieces could be worked into your existing scheme of work. Do have a peep and see what you think.
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