Interactive texts for language learning

FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING IN GENIALLY

Interactive texts

INTRO

The text below is interactive. You can doubleclick any word to listen to the pronunciation and add it to your "word list". It was generated using a simple form, which you can see on the right.

basic example

Interactive texts

The basic functionality allows the student to "collect words", which can be then displayed somewhere in your genially.

Click a word to display the sentence where you had found it. You can also pre-define a word list for the student.

The words you clicked should be displayed below.

Word list

Optionally, you can add a secret code to be displayed when the student completes the exercise. You can try it out here.

INTRO

Another option is to turn a text into an open-cloze exercise. All the words from your word list should be replaced with gaps in the text on he right.

basic example

Exercise

Tip: You can add translations/hints to selected words using underscores. The hints get displayed oh hover and words with hints are underlined.

1) Go to the page with the form.2) Write/copy-paste your text into the textarea3) Provide GAME IDENTIFIER 4) style the text5) Click "Generate Code"6) Insert the code using the INSERT option in Genially (or embed in another webpage)

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Basic text

GAME IDENTIFIER = DEFAULT

Empy word list will display all the words which the student had "collected" in texts with the corresponding game identifier. The list on the left should display all the words collected on previous slides.

1) Go to the page with the form.2) Provide GAME IDENTIFIER 4) style the text5) Click "Generate Code"6) Insert the code using the INSERT option in Genially (or embed in another webpage)

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Empty word list

GAME IDENTIFIER = DEFAULT

GAME IDENTIFIER = NEW

Tip: You can add translations/hints to selected words using underscores. The hints get displayed along with the words.

1) Go to the page with the form.2) Write/copy-paste a comma-separated list of words (no spaces)3) Provide GAME IDENTIFIER 4) style the text5) Click "Generate Code"6) Insert the code using the INSERT option in Genially (or embed in another webpage)

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Pre-defined word list

Tip: You can pair different texts/exercises with different word lists in a single project if you use multiple GAME IDENTIFIERS.

Exercises are created in the same way as interactive texts, except you select the option "gaps = simple". Optionally, you can add a secret code to be displayed after completing the exercise..

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Exercise

Locks can be combined with exercises. Locks display a secret code when the student has reached a certain score in exercises with the corresponding GAME IDENTIFIER. You can ask the student to collect words, find and complete multiple exercises to unlock a single lock. See this genially for illustration:

Locks

GAME IDENTIFIER = NEW

GAME IDENTIFIER = DEFAULT

GAME IDENTIFIER = DEFAULT

If you add "Interactive text" but you leave the main textarea empty, the frame should display an exercise made od the collected words !if there are any! (with sentences from the previously used interactive texts). See the examle below:

collected words

Revision page

Repeat

Revision page

Practice

Exercises

2017

Collect more words

Interactive text

study words

Present word list

1) Go to the page with the form.2) Provide GAME IDENTIFIER 3) style the text4) set target score5) Click "Generate Lock"6) Insert the code using the INSERT option in Genially (or embed in another webpage)

Note: The locks are very simple and let you increase your score by repeating the same exercise!!

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Lock

(warnings)

Final remarks

The words are stored on the client computer as long as the browser tab is OPEN. When you close the tab, all the words are deleted.Exercises only work if there are ANY stored words for the given GAME IDENTIFIER.

works for individual sessions

Data storage

The widget was designed to work with shorter texts (approx. 1 paragraph maximum). I you need a longer text, you can split it into multiple frames.

Use shorter texts

Text length

Using special characters may cause bugs in the script because the text is sent via URL. Aposrophes are automatically replaced with "´". DO NOT use line breaks.

not all characters are supported!

Special characters

Thank you!