Word Clouds

On many blogs, you will see Word Clouds like the one below on many of them.

How do they work?

In blogs, the biggest words tell us that there are more entries on the blog with those labels.

In texts, the biggest words are the words that appear most times in the text.

Look at this word cloud made from a Cambridge English: First gapped text:

age anna arrive boy breakfast child 

chop cook cooked cooking course deep didn’t 

doesn’t drink eager egg eight evening farmhouse food four fruit 

girl hand hitting idea just  keen  kitchen later learn 

like lower make onion oven possible punch reluctant sausage start 

student  teach teaching ten way worked young 

What do you think the text is about?

How can YOU make a word cloud like this one?

Go to this website and paste your text into the box.In seconds, you will have your word cloud!

Did you know?

The middle gaps in the gapped texts tasks in Cambridge English: First and Advanced and Proficiency Reading papers are the ones that most candidates have problems with.