Creative Transform (CT)
AR cultural-exhibition installation
Each student designs a virtual cultural exhibition about an aspect of target-language culture (food, music, architecture, festivals). The exhibition consists of AR exhibits placed at chosen real-world locations around the school grounds; viewers walk between locations and view exhibits through their phone camera. Each exhibit includes target-language audio commentary the student records.
Tools: Adobe Aero
AI-translation critique published as toggleable web page
Each student translates a literary passage from the target language with AI assistance, then produces a critical commentary comparing the AI's translation choices to their own. They publish a single interactive web page where the reader can toggle between three views: the original, the AI translation, and the student's translation, with hover annotations explaining each disputed choice.
Tools: Google Sites, GitHub Copilot
Multi-voice target-language podcast series
Pairs collaboratively produce a four-episode podcast series in the target language addressing a real audience of target-language learners. Each episode has multiple voices, sound design, music beds, and engages with a contemporary cultural topic. Pairs publish to a shared class podcast feed and write reflective commentary on production choices.
Tools: GarageBand
Interactive Amplify (IA)
Vocab clusters on a Jamboard
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
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
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
Translation comparison on a class wall
The teacher posts a single short target-language passage (about 60 words, with two ambiguous phrases). Each student translates the full passage into English and posts to a class Padlet. The class scrolls and the teacher highlights two ambiguous phrases where students made notably different choices, asking three students to defend their decision.
Tools: Padlet
Listening comprehension with class-wide annotation
The teacher plays a 90-second target-language audio clip three times. As the class listens, each student types one observation per listen on a shared Padlet (first listen: gist; second: tone; third: inference). The teacher pauses after each listen, projects the wall, and discusses common observations and any outliers.
Tools: Padlet
Photo-card description with peer audio reactions
The teacher posts five GCSE-style photo cards. Each student records a 60-second target-language description of one card and posts the audio to a class Padlet column for that card. Three classmates listen to each student's recording and post a single-word target-language reaction (clear, slow, hesitant, fluent, etc.) as a comment. The teacher samples reactions and identifies common pronunciation patterns.
Tools: Padlet
Interactive Transform (IT)
Moderated language exchange with native speakers
Each student is paired with a peer in a target-language country through a school-moderated platform. They exchange a sequence of asynchronous voice memos and short videos over six weeks, with one live video call midway. The teacher reviews messages weekly for safety and language progression.
Tools: Microsoft Teams
Co-authored cultural photo essay with partner school
A class partners with a class in a target-language country. Together they build a single shared photo essay on cultural similarities and differences (food, school day, family rhythm, weekend life). Each student contributes one photo plus a 50-word target-language caption; their partner-school peer responds with a comparison. The essay publishes as a co-authored web page across both classes.
Tools: Google Sites, Microsoft Teams
Live target-language debate competition between schools
A class hosts a live debate competition in target language with a partner school in another country. Two teams of three argue a position (e.g. "school uniform should be abolished"); native-speaker peers argue the opposite. Teacher-judges on both sides give feedback. The class watches the full debate live and votes on the strongest case made.
Tools: Microsoft Teams
Passive Replace (PR)
Listening to a target-language podcast with comprehension form
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
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
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 CT 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.