It was a interesting lesson today as Dr. Marta introduced to us Word Clouds. Word Clouds is an image composed of words used in a particular text or subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency or importance. There are many websites that you can use to create Word Clouds. The one that we use in the class is http://www.wordle.net/.
This is a Word Clouds that I have created using a poem by Shakespeare. Can you guess the title of the poem? Look in the comment section for the answer.
Don't be fooled with the simplicity of Word Clouds. It can be use to generate interesting language teaching activities. The following are some ideas of using Word Clouds in the classroom:
This is a Word Clouds that I have created using a poem by Shakespeare. Can you guess the title of the poem? Look in the comment section for the answer.
Don't be fooled with the simplicity of Word Clouds. It can be use to generate interesting language teaching activities. The following are some ideas of using Word Clouds in the classroom:
- Teacher can create word-matching activity where you can write a list of words both in your mother tongue and in English. Then, use the resulting word cloud as a vocab quiz/worksheet.
- Teacher can engage students’ discussion by using key words created in a word cloud and make predictions about the content before reading the actual text.
- You can also create a word cloud out of a text in the target language and ask students to discover and highlight the main ideas in the text.
The title of the poem is "Out, out, brief candle!"
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