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| Use the words in this cloud to make a story - try to use all the words! |
English language school in the heart of the Japanese Alps, and English language learners sharing their experiences online. Teachers post regular items about teaching, learning tools, events in the school, their day to day experiences living & working in a foreign country. Students post on whatever takes their fancy - book reports, festivals in home towns, postcards from business trips etc. A little Brit of England in the guts of Japan!
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Make yourself a story - "The Storm"
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If you want to check out the 'real' story, it's OUP's Story Tree - Green book 4 "The Storm".
ReplyDeleteThe bigger the words ib the cloud (I used Wordle) the more frequent the word appears in the text.
Jim
Word clouds are great. I have created word clouds that include the most common verbs, enlarged them for class and stuck them on a wall for all students to see.
ReplyDeleteIt is also great to get students to write creatively and notice common word groups (verbs, nouns, etc).
I also did word clouds from film reviews adult students had written. Copy & pasted, then gave them back the word clouds and asked them to re-tell their review orally in class the next time.
ReplyDeleteWas a very good way to get them to remember their paragraph plans; still had to yellow card them for blurting 'spoilers' though.
Like your ideas Martin - thank you for sharing!