Interactive Amplify (IA) sits at the Interactive row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real Mfl lessons for KS3 that classify as IA, plus anti-examples that look IA but are not.

Vocab clusters on a Jamboard

Year 7 · 30 min · 1 device per student

Each student gets a stack of digital flashcards on their own Jamboard frame, with target-language words on one side and English on the other. They drag each card into one of four theme columns (food, family, school, hobbies). The class scrolls all frames; the teacher highlights any word that landed in different columns across students and asks for justification.

Tools: Jamboard

Target-language short answers in shared Doc

Year 8 · 40 min · 1 device per student

The teacher posts ten target-language questions in a shared class Doc. Each student writes their answer to each question on their own line. The teacher highlights live as students submit, calling out common error patterns and asking two students to revise their answers based on the feedback.

Tools: Google Docs

Voice memos in target language to class wall

Year 9 · 40 min · 1 device per student

The teacher posts five short prompts in target language. Each student records a 20-second voice memo answering each prompt in target language and posts to a class Padlet. The class listens to a sample of each prompt's responses and labels strongest pronunciation features (stress, intonation, vowel quality).

Tools: Padlet

Lessons that look IA 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.