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Terms first

• Wordle is a web tool for generating “word clouds”

• A word cloud is a visual representation of a text. It looks like a cloud with the words of the embedded text appearing smaller or bigger according to their frequency in the text.

Here is what a word cloud looks like

How to generate it?

• There we go!

Where to use it?

While dealing with lower level skills...

While teaching prefixes

While teaching adj phrases

While teaching part of speech

While teaching phrasals

While teaching collocations

While differentiating the content vocabulary

While sorting the vocabulary

antonyms

ODD one out

Sentence order

While dealing with higher level skills...

While having the students make up a story

While having the students guess the story

• story

In gap filling

• text

Continue the story with the given words

• Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.

Task 1 ?

Introducing themselves and their family

• Structures to be used To beSimple present

Task 2

Talking about likes and dislikes

• Like/ dislike/ hate/• Might/ may / must

Topic ----------Practised structure

Their hometown ------- to be/ adjTheir best friend ------- character, appearance adjSchool rules ------------- should / must / can

TASK 3

• How can we use wordle with advanced level students?

Academic writing

• Copy and paste an article about a subject area such as engineering, biology to see the most frequent words of the text.

Compare and contrast

• the word clouds of two or more students' writing

• famous speeches• book reviews• formal, informal letters ( language)

As a teacher to get feedback

• Did you like the lesson? The more yeses the bigger the word “yes” is and the bigger the

smile on your face is• Which language skill do you think you need to practise more?The more the word“ speaking” the bigger the word appears,

the less your teacher talk should be • What do you like most about your teacher?The more the word “ funny” appears, the bigger the word

occurs, the bigger the question mark on your mind is “ could it be that they wanted to say fun but confused it with funny again?

What is wordle?

• Let’s generate our own word cloud answering the question “ what is wordle for you?”

Wordle is open to your creativity

• with different levels• with different skills• yourself as a teacher• with your students

Great example to show how much popular WORDLE is around the world

LoOk hERe

• My assistant cat

Current Affairs Analysis

• Copy and paste a news story into Wordle. What could the story be about? What would the headline be? Where could have it taken place?