MFL Widgets & Wizardry
30+ ideas for the language
classroom
http://iconscrabble.com

Tu vois
Un vase
Ou
Deux têtes?
Le nez
La bouche
Le menton

Une jeune femme
ou
une vieille dame?

Tu vois
un lapin
ou
un canard?

Build your wildself
http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
Also Sonic character creator
http://devbook.com/charactercreators/sonic/

Mr Picassohead
• www.picassohead.com
• anime character maker
• sonic character creator
• gamepuma character creator

Countdown timer
www.online-stopwatch.com
A nice collection of timers.
Includes countdown bomb!
www.classtools.net
Has tunes you can use to countdown
Also : name/word randomizers, hidden image

www.classtools.net
Fakebook
Fake Tweet
Great for project work – a celebrity, a town, a
character in a novel, play or film

Linguascope widgets
[Log in needed]
Countdown timers
Dice

Word /name/phrase picker
http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/
Google primary ict random name selector
Works best on Chrome

www.barryfunenglish.com
Look under ‘tools’ for scoreboards. One of the few free
resources available

Sandfields Comp IWB resources
http://www.npted.org/schools/sandfieldsComp/games/Pages/default.aspx
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‘Bingo in’ mad
Click clock
Fridge magnet
Sketchpad for Pictionary

Talking points
Google: ‘unusual
pictures’; check
before use!

Pause n’ play videos
Favourite at the moment
German:
Edeka – supergeil
Rowan Atkinson singt das Europalied
French:
Evian roller babies
Mr Bean – Packing for Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0dr_juOiI

Popplet
http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/460907
Easy
diagram
creator
You can
include
youtube
videos
Babysitten
http://popplet.com/app/index.php#/1
283283

blockbusters
• Use http://www.teachersdirect.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters

Google: Star wars text crawl
creator
You can input some text and this site
converts it to a STAR WARSstyle
opening titles sequence

Easy prompter
http://www.easyprompter.com/
Paste text into the box and it turns into a
broadcast-style autocue
Sample Text:
So here I stand... one girl
among many. I speak – not
for myself, but for all girls
and boys. I raise up my
voice – not so that I can
shout, but so that those
without a voice can be
heard. Those who have
fought for their rights:
Their right to live in peace.
Their right to be treated
with dignity. Their right to
equality of opportunity.
Their right to be educated.

Zap reader
Sample Text:
So here I stand... one girl among
many. I speak – not for myself, but for
all girls and boys. I raise up my voice –
not so that I can shout, but so that
those without a voice can be heard.
Those who have fought for their rights:
Their right to live in peace. Their right
to be treated with dignity. Their right to
equality of opportunity. Their right to
be educated.
www.zapreader.com
Select ‘Reader’
Paste a bunch of text in to the box
Hit ‘zap it’
The page will display one word at a time
You can adjust the speed and the number of words
displayed at any one time (up to 5)
Good for reading practice (phonics)
Information recall
Translation / comprehension
Predict next word
Repeat/ recall last word

www.wordle.net
This is a wordle (wordle.net)
how do we use it?
See also Tagxedo

Bart’s Chalkboard
Why not use Bart’s Blackboard on a worksheet or the IWB
3 things I learnt this
lesson
Next time, I must
remember to get this
right……
Here’s a question I want
to ask the teacher/ the
class

Here’s the background

Storybird & bookbox
• some lovely illustrated books in French
Spanish German
• Good for a language club

Who needs expensive & fiddly e-voting
systems?
Multiple choice / mini-plenary smiley kit
Download the ‘kit’ here:
http://verulamvle.typepad.com/vets/2011/11/smileys-for-miniplenaries.html

Cartoon creators
Go Animate - Make animations using a range of characters &
props. The pupils love it. Drag and drop to create scenes.
Allows text, but not speech. See examples here and here
• Toondo - cartoon strip creator- Cartoon strip creator.
Drag and drop. A good way to reinforce a topic.
http://www.toondoo.com/ Example here

‘wheeldecide’
http://wheeldecide.com/
A wheel spinner which you can customize with any number of
segments and contents
You could add words, pupil’s names, topic categories

Top 10s
http://www.aneki.com/lists.html
Go out of
Powerpoint
slideshow into
edit mode &
move the
rectangle around

Online voice recorders
• Audioboo
Easy Audio clip recorder- just click, record and send.
Click the icon above to hear my sample. Get pupils to
do a quick audio message and send it to your email
address (your network techies can set one up a
shadow (proxy) one for you)
• Vocaroo Easy audio recorder
There’s a more flexible one called Audiopal
Soundcloud lets you store longer bits of audio

Thinglink
Make an image interactive
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/4288907745
37502720

Fotobabble
Upload a photo and add your audio commentary
Here ’s an example (year 8 German)
Ideal for topic work at any level

Voki – talking avatar creator
• Click the Borat sample. Text to speech, lots of
characters, voices and languages.
Selected pupils come to the front and create a
target language Voki message to the class
Pupil A inputs a description about another pupil.
Class have to guess who it is. Winner takes over.
Selected pupils create a plenary Voki of the 5
most useful words from the lesson for the rest of
the class to guess
Teacher creates a Voki containing a starter
activity or a message which contains the lesson
objective

One motion drum machine
Click on the
image to see it
in action –
If you’re
feeling brave,
try the
alphabet song

Gap fill generator
Google: random idea + English + Gapfill generator
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html

Blabberize
• http://blabberize.com/view/id/794856
Upload any image, customize the mouth, record
a message and watch the lip-sync in action.
Works best with cartoon faces but you can try
celebs too.

Dice
For dice rollers – see
http://dice.miniwebapps.net/
Also Linguascope widgets &
IWB software e.g. Active Inspire
1
I get up
In the garden
With my dog
2
I wash
In the kitchen
With my cat
3
I eat
In the garage
With my horse
4
I get dressed
On the balcony
With my two goldfish
5
I brush my teeth
In my room
With my mouse
6
I go to bed
In the school
With my tortoise

More dice ideas
Number each pupil in your class 1-12
Go round again, so in a class of 24 you’ll have two pupils who are number 1 etc
Roll 2 die
The pupils with that number stand up and answer
Divide class into two teams - Ask a question then, if they answer correctly, roll one
dice for number of points
‘cricket’: - roll a dice, then ask a question worth that number of points. So a six
would be a really hard question, a one would be an easy one
Verb conjugation

quizlet
• Make you own sets of flashcards – audio
enabled !
• Ma ville: http://quizlet.com/26983558/flashcards

Textivate
£35
Copy and paste text
Choose sequencing or gap fill
Sample Text:
So here I stand... one girl among many. I speak – not for
myself, but for all girls and boys. I raise up my voice – not
so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can
be heard. Those who have fought for their rights: Their
right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with
dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right
to be educated.

Text mechanic + reverse text generator

Text Srambler
http://www.rjwoerheide.com/scrambletest.php
Google: rjwoerheide + text scrambler
• puts Use the words online different a a in
which scrambler sentence order an text of
use an online text scrambler which puts the
words of a sentence in a different order
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uoy stel moc.esacelggot.www
www.togglecase.com lets you do other things
like produce backwards text.

Lingro
• Import a foreign language webpage address
• each word becomes clickable
• You can click on the word for the meaning and store it
in a word list
• It will generate a set of flashcards of the words clicked

Using Authentic materials
Suggestions:
Amazon.de
Amazon.fr
TV: la grille des émissions
Cinema + Rouen+ programme www.allocine.fr
Subway Belgique
McDonalds France
Subway France
Pizzas `a emporter

imagechef
fodey
Caption generators
photobox
funny.pho.to
Also: Glass giant

Keep calmomatic

jon.meier@verulam.herts.sch.uk