In the past I have written about practising word and sentence structure by mixing it up in some way and asking students to sort it back out into the correct order. I have done this most often with missing out the spaces and making anagrams.
I have also asked my students to rearranged jumbled sentences into the right order so that they make sense, one of the ideas in my search for ideas for translation. When I was preparing resources for Studio 1 (French Key Stage 3 course book) I put together worksheets like this one where I had jumbled up the sentence myself.
I was really pleased to see this tweet from@EClaire71247211 recently:
The Scramblinator is so easy to use - type in or paste in your sentence, hit the "Scramblinatorize" button, and it does all the work for you! Resources are quicker and easier to put together.One of my favourite hacks - paste a load of TL sentences into this site and it instantly creates a sentence unjumbling exercise - good for making your own Conti-style 'sentence puzzles' or for scaffolded translations into L2. #mfltwitterati #langchat https://t.co/QhkT38WoCQ— eclaire (@EClaire71247211) May 4, 2020
It reminded of the Reverse Text Generator which is useful for messing around with text. It also has a "Disemvowel" tool, which you can use to remove vowels or any other letters from your text quickly and easily (and which makes your sentences look like they belong in Only Connect) and a Word Scrambler / Descrambler amongst its Obfuscation tools.
Here are some of the effects you can get:
ORIGINAL SENTENCE
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Je joue au foot avec mes
amis.
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Scramblinator
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joue / foot / au / Je /
amis. / mes / avec
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Disemvowel
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J j ft vc ms ms.
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Word Scrambler
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Je euoj au ootf vaec mes
asim.
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ORIGINAL SENTENCE
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Il fait chaud aujourd’hui.
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Reverse
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iuh'druojua duahc tiaf
li
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Reverse the wording
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hui'aujourd chaud fait
il
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Reverse each word’s
lettering
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li tiaf duahc druojua'iuh
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Upside down
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ınɥ,pɹnoɾnɐ pnɐɥɔ ʇıɐɟ ןı
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UPDATE 13.5.20: I've found some more sites which can do similar things to your text:
To create word shapes, click here
NimbleText does disemvowelling and reverse text among other things (scroll down the list)
LingoJam puts your text upside down for you
The LingoJam Number Generator makes a number code out of your words
LingoJam will also disemvowel your words
Spellbackwards will reverse your text in various different ways
The above link for the Scramblinator no longer works, but this one is good: https://gev.neocities.org/Scramblinator
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