Wordle clouds are different, and that's why they capture our students' attention. It is not just a text, but different words (in colour and size) arranged in several forms. This clouds achieve that students look at them for more than five seconds, so we should take clouds into account for our lessons. But, how can we use them?
We can use it as a pre-reading activity. We can show our student a cloud made with part of a tale they are going to read, and after looking at it, they must guess what tale it is. Here you have a very easy example:
We can also use a cloud for reviewing adjectives, playing something like a Guess who? game. We should choose a famous character (real or imaginary), and create a cloud with his description, so that students can guess the character.. For using ITC in the class, we could teach students how to create their own clouds, and then they could play the game in pairs.
It can also be used to review grammar topics like past form of irregular verbs. We can make a cloud with verbs in the infinitive and simple past form, make a pdf worksheet, and ask students to circle past forms.
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