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Word Clouds

December 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Lesson plans · Songs · Writing

Covering up with Microsoft Paint

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

What’s going on?

This is a funny picture story that I have come accross a few times on the internet. I used Microsoft Paint to cover up the subject in each image, showed the series to my students and asked them to guess what was going on.
Microsoft paint is a free and simple program that […]

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Tags: Creative writing · Lesson plans · Past simple · Writing