Passive Replace sits at the Passive row and the Replace column of the PICRAT grid. Students are passive; the technology is replacing something analogue.

Geography

Listening to a podcast on a country

Year 8 · 25 min · 1 device per student or class display

Class listens to a 12-minute podcast on a country (e.g. life in modern Iceland, megacity development in Lagos). Students take notes in books.

Tools: Spotify

Reading a Bitesize geography textbook page on iPad

Year 8 · 30 min · 1 device per student

Students read a Bitesize page on population distribution patterns on their iPad. The teacher highlights three key terms at the start. Students take notes in their books.

Watching a Bitesize geography video clip

Year 9 · 25 min · Class display

The class watches a 10-minute Bitesize video on river formations. Students take notes in books.

Tools: YouTube

Mfl

Listening to a target-language podcast with comprehension form

Year 8 · 35 min · 1 device per student or class display

Students listen to a five-minute podcast clip in the target language. The teacher plays it twice. Students answer six comprehension questions on a Microsoft Form.

Tools: Spotify, Microsoft Forms

Reading a target-language text on iPad with end-of-lesson quiz

Year 8 · 40 min · 1 device per student

Students read a 250-word text in the target language on their iPad about a teenager's daily routine. The teacher pre-teaches three new vocabulary items at the start. After 25 minutes of reading, students complete a five-question multiple-choice comprehension Form.

Tools: Microsoft Forms

Watching a target-language vlog with comprehension worksheet

Year 9 · 45 min · Class display

The class watches a vlog from a teenager in a target-language country (e.g. Spanish from Madrid, French from Quebec, Mandarin from Taipei). The vlog is 5 minutes long. Students complete a paper comprehension worksheet afterwards with eight questions in the target language.

Tools: YouTube

Lessons that look PR but are not

Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.

This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.