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TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Activity 48: Wordle prediction Marija Jovic – Sebia Age: 8-14 45 minutes Large classes? Yes Mixed level? Yes Materials: Printed copies of ‘word clouds’. Organisation: Group work. Aim: To practise the reading skill of prediction; writing. Description: http://www.wordle.net is a website that uses keywords from a text of your choice to generate a ‘word cloud’ (called a ‘wordle’). In this activity the children use the word cloud to predict the content of a text and to write it, but this is a very flexible tool that can be used for a number of purposes. Preparation: Before the lesson, choose the reading text that will be the focus of the lesson. Then go to http://www.wordle.net and create your word cloud using words from the text. Choose the most important words from each paragraph (not more than five per paragraph) and copy them into the Wordle generator. The more times you copy a word, the bigger it will appear on the word cloud, so copy the most important words in each paragraph a number of times into Wordle. You will need one copy of the word cloud for each group. Procedure 1. Divide the children into groups of four and give each group a copy of the word cloud. Explain that the children will reconstruct the text using the words in the word cloud. Explain that the biggest words are the most important ones and may be used more than once. 2. The children work together to reconstruct the text, writing their own versions using the words in the word cloud. 3. A representative from each group reads out the group’s text. 4. Hand out a copy of the original text and ask the children to decide which group’s version was the closest to the original. 102 © British Council 2012
TeachingEnglish Young Learners Activity Book Activities Alternatives • If the text has a number of paragraphs, you can help the children by colour-coding the words. Words of the same colour belong in the same paragraph. • Naila Masud (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) gives a number of alternative ways of using Wordle word clouds: 1. Revision: to revise a text the children have studied recently, paste the text into Wordle and generate a word cloud. Show the children the word cloud and ask them if they can remember what the text was about, the meaning of the words and how they were used in the text. You can build up a bank of word clouds over the semester and bring them out at random to get the children to recall the texts and key vocabulary. 2. Prediction: to help the children predict the content of a reading or listening text and activate their background knowledge (which helps their reading/listening), you can create a word cloud from the text and ask them to predict the content. You can use the cloud to pre-teach any new vocabulary before the children read or listen to the text. 3. Reconstruction: to help the children reconstruct a dialogue they have listened to or have been studying, you can create a word cloud, colouring the words in different colours for each speaker. The children have to reconstruct the dialogue. 4. Writing poems: Children can write their own short poems or haiku. Generate a word cloud either with words of your choice or using a short poem or haiku. The children write their own poems using the words. No resources? If you do not have access to a computer, you can create a word cloud by writing the words in different colours on pieces of paper, one for each group, or you could write them on the board, using different coloured pens/chalk. Alternatively, you could create a word cloud by hand on a large piece of paper to share with the class. If you have a computer but not an internet connection, you can also create word clouds using any text programme. This activity was inspired by an activity in Challenges 2, Pearson Longman. energetic guitar Mali Caribbean flamenco poledances gymnastics shoes MaskDances ColourfulDress world Spain Cossack monsters swords tourists drums masks ground limbo © British Council 2012 103
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