Some ideas for using interactive whiteboards in MFL lessons

1. Jon Meier
Verulam School
St Albans

2. ideas
Blank out letters / words
Label an image e.g. parts of the face
Text diagram – use a piece of text and label it, like a
diagram. Pupils can label meanings, parts of speech etc
Top and tail sentences – match up the start and end of
sentences

3. Graffiti wall

4. Blank for your own use

5. Drag and drop – sentence gap
Drag and drop – vocab match
Drag and drop – parts of speech, synonyms, opposites,
(use venn diagram or coloured boxes/ suitcases)

7. Blind & spotlight
Vertical blind to hide large bits of text. On Active and Smart
boards. You can slide the blind up, down, left or right
Spotlight to hide bits of text / pictures. On Active and Smart
boards

8. Jigsaw Planet
http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=2
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Moqueries, insultes, mises à l'écart… ces
comportements violents par la parole ou par
les gestes font beaucoup de mal.
C'est quand ils se répètent sur une longue
période qu'on parle de harcèlement. Lorsque
ces insultes et humiliations se poursuivent sur
internet et les réseaux sociaux, on parle de
cyber-harcèlement.
1 élève sur 10 est concerné par le harcèlement
à l'école*. Beaucoup n'arrivent pas à en parler
autour d'eux et souffrent en silence.
Text is from http://1jour1actu.com

9. Word pile – stack words on top of each other (like word
magnets) and drag them to see what comes out
Activeboard Page Notes – On Promethean boards, you
can type onto a notepad which is attached to a
whiteboard page. This can then be hidden and revealed
when you want. So you could use it for answers to a set of
questions
Pictionary –One team draws a vocab item and the other
members of the team have 10 secs to guess and say the
word correctly. You could also give the team members a
card with the target word on which they have to draw.

10. Triptico
word magnets

11. Wordle & Tagxedo: wordcloud generators. Tagxedo will
highlight a word if you put the cursor over it
Triptico – lots of resources e.g. word magnets
(subscription required)
Textivate (subscription required) – paste in text and it
generates gapfill, sequencing and re-ordering activities
Quizlet – a flashcard generator. Also turns your cards
games and tests . Scatter game is good for IWBs

12. Thinglink
add hotspots to any photo
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/5804352426
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13. Tagxdedo
Works best on Chrome
Put cursor on a word and it spins out

14. Popplet

15. Creating a user-friendly background
on Smartboards

16. Customizing your Smartboard menu
using floating tools
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3Drag the
icons to
your menu Et voilà

17. Gamegrids
Gamegrids see
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2012/05/
gamegrid-backgrounds.html

18. Dice
I get up
I wash
I eat
I get dressed
I brush my teeth
I go to bed
In the garden
In the kitchen
In the garage
On the balcony
In my room
In the school
With my dog
With my cat
With my horse
With my two goldfish
With my mouse
With my tortoise
For dice rollers – see
http://dice.miniwebapps.net/
Also Linguascope widgets &
IWB software e.g. Active Inspire
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19. MYLO
http://www.hellomylo.com/Challenge/Germa
n/1/Level/Desc
Take a look at these sites for some more good interactive
whiteboard activities:
•frenchgames.net
•languages online victoria
•classtools.net – post-its, dustbin, pacman, random name-picker,
countdown timer, connect 4
•Linguascope
•a tantôt
•Mylo
•Popplet – mindmap/diagram, creator

20. Cette nouvelle console est
plus puissante que la 3DS.
Elle fait fonctionner plus
rapidement les logiciels
classiques comme le
Miiverse et les menus sont
plus fluides. Elle permet
aussi de jouer à des jeux
exclusifs que la 3DS
classique sera incapable de
faire fonctionner. Ainsi le
premier titre annoncé est
un magnifique RPG,
Xenoblade Chronicles.
Here is some text and an
image to play with when you
are trying out these ideas on
your board