wordle is an interesting instructional tool that gives its users the ability to generate a " Word cloud" through the text they feed in.As such, The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.Incorporating this in classroom activities is rewarding.
Lately ,I used the word cloud game as a lead to introduce my target languge of the lesson 'job tiltles'.The lesson was targeted to company trainees ,intermidate level.I used the 'word cloud'for the prediction stage.Then a task was asssigned to learners to find the words that go together to make a job title.Then afterwards I assigned another matching task.Learners now are asked to match the job titles they find with descriptions of each job.Below is how the job title word cloud looked like.The students really enjoyed the activity and the lesson main objective is attained.
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