Word clouds

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Another great online tool I use with my learners is Wordle (http://www.wordle.net/). The way I use it draws attention to the words the idioms consist of, and it also makes students think about the grammatical structure of the phrase. Copy several idioms and paste them into Wordle. They scramble into a word cloud and your students then try to unscramble them. Some of the grammatical words may be missing.

I've scrambled 10 idioms. Can you unscramble them?

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6926636/Idioms_scrambled