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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A Pecha Kucha is a short presentation that lasts exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Why 6 minutes and 40 seconds?

Well, the presentation has to consist of 20 power point slides
Each slide is displayed for exactly 20 seconds (the presenter has no control over when the slides change)
20 images x 20 seconds = 6 minutes […]

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