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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) #MFLBlueSky
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submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 On the many ways of practising 📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into: 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇪🇸 Spanish TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇 #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 On the many ways of practising 📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into: 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇪🇸 Spanish TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇 textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-... #mflbluesky

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 On the many ways of practising 📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into: 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇪🇸 Spanish TRY FOR YOURSELF by clicking below 👇👇👇 textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-... #mflbluesky

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I have consistent Tory déjà vu ... only it's Labour. Every day I think: 'they cannot possibly get worse'. And then, every day, they manage to do just that. From the failure to finally provide safe routes to this now - it's wrong, inhumane, and pure Reform cosplay. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 81 days ago • 14 comments

Click through to try out all sorts of SCAFFOLDED TRANSLATION activities in 🇫🇷 French, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇹 Italian and 🇪🇸 Spanish 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky (GCSE translation to L2)

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Click through to try out all sorts of SCAFFOLDED TRANSLATION activities in 🇫🇷 French, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇹 Italian and 🇪🇸 Spanish 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts (GCSE translation to L2)

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

✨ NEW post on the TextActivities blog on the many ways of practising 📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language 👇👇👇 on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into: 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇪🇸 Spanish textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-... #mflbluesky

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Love using @teachvid.bsky.social for adaptive teaching tasks at the moment! As a result, my entire department is using it! What a fabulous website #mflbluesky

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Israel has killed more than 700 Palestinians in the last 48 hours and there is almost zero coverage by American news outlets

submitted 90 days ago • 12 comments

✨ NEW post on the TextActivities blog on the many ways of practising 📄✍️ TRANSLATION into the Target Language 👇👇👇 on TextActivities, with lots of LIVE example activities involving translation into: 🇫🇷 French 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇪🇸 Spanish textactivities.posthaven.com/translation-... #mflbluesky

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Working with parallel texts in MFL 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

🔊👂✍️ LISTENING practice via DICTATION-like activities from the get-go is likely to produce students with better listening skills 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac... 🤩 Post includes 28 direct links to different activities on TextActivities

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Must read for any language language teacher, modern or ancient. Come for the lesson ideas, stay for the breakdown of all the research. Gratias maximas tibi, Doctor!

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

A former BBC journalist told Declassified that at the BBC -- “The use of the word genocide is effectively banned, and any contributor who uses this word is immediately shut down.” www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-t...

submitted 118 days ago • 6 comments

❗️Disgruntled staff at the Guardian have compiled an “exhaustive spreadsheet” of the paper “amplifying unchallenged Israeli propaganda…or treating clearly false statements by Israeli spokespeople as credible”. www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-the-truth-pro-israel-bias-inside-uk-newsrooms-revealed/

submitted 118 days ago • 15 comments

Why using Scripted Listening (reading- whilst- listening) is so powerful for vocabulary acquisition gianfrancoconti.com/2025/02/20/w... #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky #mflchat #langchat #teachinglistening

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Ten tried-and-tested instructional strategies that WILL enhance your students’ listening skills and GCSE grades gianfrancoconti.com/2025/02/21/t... 👏👏👏👏 #mfltwitterati #mflbluesky #teachinglistening #langchat #mflchat

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

SOS!! New post on the blog about how to maximise our Y11 students’ skills in the next three months before the GCSE exams. mflcraft.blogspot.com/2025/02/sos-... #mflbluesky

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Wie viele Menschen werden daran denken, wenn Sie am Sonntag waehlen gehen? Two-thirds of the world’s surface was scorched by a month or more of record-breaking heat, Guardian analysis of satellite data can reveal. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Why do the govt bemoan MFL GCSE take up numbers, when they know we are running up a down escalator? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/01/one-...

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Ojo a esto. Pregunta @joanbaldovi a Vox si creen que tiene que seguir un presidente tan incompetente. Le contestan que sí. Es un incompetente pero es de los nuestros, que se jodan los demás. Son fascistas sin escrúpulos. Así me gusta, que vayan de cara

submitted 119 days ago • 7 comments

How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar #mflbluesky www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

“Native language is specially stored in the #brain for easy access” #LanguageLearning #EduSky #MFLBluesky #MFL #langchat #polyglot #native

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

🔊👂✍️ LISTENING practice via DICTATION-like activities from the get-go is likely to produce students with better listening skills 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/dictation-ac... 🤩 Post includes 28 direct links to different activities on TextActivities

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Working with parallel texts in MFL 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Spanish teachers teaching El Laberinto Del Fauno at A Level. I had a few very productive lessons with Y13 last week describing all main characters and finding key words to enhance essay writing. Here are our findings, in case they are useful: #MFLBluesky

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

I will speaking about Dictation at the next @all4languages.bsky.social Phorum meeting on 6th March. If you'd like to book, click this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #mflbluesky

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Working with parallel texts in MFL 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Working with parallel texts in MFL 👇👇👇 #mfltwitterati #mflchat #langchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky textactivities.posthaven.com/working-with...

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

🖨️📄 WORKSHEETS on 🌏 www.textactivities.com now allow for multiple activities (up to 5) and you can combine text-rebuild and vocab activities on the same worksheet 🤩 #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

🖨️📄 WORKSHEETS on 🌏 www.textactivities.com now allow for multiple activities (up to 5) and you can combine text-rebuild and vocab activities on the same worksheet 🤩 #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

🖨️📄 WORKSHEETS on 🌏 www.textactivities.com now allow for multiple activities (up to 5) and you can combine text-rebuild and vocab activities on the same worksheet 🤩 #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

MFL TEACHERS: On using model texts to develop language competence... #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky It's about way more than just reading / listening comprehension. And TONS of REPETITION is key 👇👇👇 textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m...

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

MFL TEACHERS: On using model texts to develop language competence... #mfltwitterati #langchat #mflchat #exploitingtexts #mflbluesky It's about way more than just reading / listening comprehension. And TONS of REPETITION is key 👇👇👇 textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m...

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

“Biden and other Western leaders prepared the ground for Trump over the past 15 months, as they defied and weakened international law to protect Israel while it waged a devastating war on Gaza” — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

✨ 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... A post about using model texts to improve productive skills textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m... #MFLBlueSky #mfltwitterati

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

✨ 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... A post about using model texts to improve productive skills textactivities.posthaven.com/exploiting-m... #MFLBlueSky #mfltwitterati

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

👉NEW -- ‘National scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza cover-up by @markcurtis30.bsky.social Britain’s ‘public service broadcaster’ is keeping the public in the dark about UK support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds. www.declassifieduk.org/national-sca...

submitted 155 days ago • 4 comments

🚀 Speedread = Rebuild the text using the multiple choice options. Each section is against the clock. 3 lives in total. How far can you get? 🇫🇷 "Ma routine, passé composé" - Speedread 👇👇👇 www.textactivities.com?sample=frenc... #MFLBlueSky #mfltwitterati

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

🇪🇸 New Year's Resolutions ✨ 🌍 Web link below. Click to play 👇👇👇 textactivities.com?sample=spani... 🤩 100+ interactive text rebuild and vocab activities, including all sorts of dictation and translation options, plus multiple printables too! #mfltwitterati #MFLBlueSky #TextActivities #langchat

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

La generación de cristal www.diario.red/articulo/vin...

submitted 165 days ago • 4 comments

🇪🇸 New Year's Resolutions ✨ 🌍 Web link below. Click to play 👇👇👇 textactivities.com?sample=spani... 🤩 100+ interactive text rebuild and vocab activities, including all sorts of dictation and translation options, plus multiple printables too! #mflbluesky #mfltwitterati #TextActivities #langchat

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments