I made the above Wordle Cloud as part of a global warming vocabulary activity. Students have to match the nouns to make 2-word collocations. So, for example, we have:

Global warming
Ice caps
Climate change
Environmental policy
Etc

But there are two problems:

I wanted the word Greenhouse to appear twice. It forms two collocations: Greenhouse effect and Greenhouse gases. But in […]

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While I was at TESOL-France in Paris a couple of weeks ago, I met Sylvie Dolakova, a teacher, teacher trainer and writer from the Czech Republic. She was giving a talk and also presenting a poster titled Storytelling? Young Learners? Limited Vocabulary? Why Not?
Like many of us, Sylvie is a big fan of Wordle.net, an […]

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I have an article in the current Guardian Weekly which looks at websites that allow learners to work with words (read it here). It mentions the following sites:

Wordle: I’ve written about this site before (see here, here and here)
Wordia: I’ll be posting a full article about this recently-launched video dictionary on teflclips in the next […]

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Before Christmas, I wrote a couple of postings about creating Word Clouds with Wordle.net (see here and here). I mentioned that one of the problems with the site is that although it allows you to print off the Word Cloud images, it doesn’t allow you to save them onto your hard drive.
If you want to […]

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Below, you will find 10 sentences about the blue whale. Unfortunately, the words are mixed up. Can you put them in the correct order? (You will probably need a pen and a piece of paper for this).
Number one:

Number two:

Number three:

Number four (in this case, the word ‘as‘ must be used twice):

Number five:

Number six:

Number seven:

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Wordle.net is an online tool which is used to create Word Clouds. Here is an example of a word cloud:

This Word Cloud was made using the ‘monkey keeps stealing my peanuts‘ joke. Note that the more a word appears in the text, the bigger it will be in the cloud. In the joke, for example, […]

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