Monday 11 May 2020

Messing around with text!


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.

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
Je joue au foot avec mes amis.
Scramblinator
joue / foot / au / Je / amis. / mes / avec
Disemvowel
J j  ft vc ms ms.
Word Scrambler
Je euoj au ootf vaec mes asim.
ORIGINAL SENTENCE
Il fait chaud aujourd’hui.
Reverse
iuh'druojua duahc tiaf li
Reverse the wording
hui'aujourd chaud fait il
Reverse each word’s lettering
li tiaf duahc druojua'iuh
Upside down
ınɥ,pɹnoɾnɐ pnɐɥɔ ʇıɐɟ ןı

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 



1 comment:

  1. The above link for the Scramblinator no longer works, but this one is good: https://gev.neocities.org/Scramblinator

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