Vocabulary galore!

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This time we´ll go over different types of walking and moving.

A new word cloud and tool Wordsift

Although not as visually attractive as Wordle or Tugxedo, by clicking on "Create Workplace" you can drag and drop any of the words you like from the word cloud above and organize them in whatever way you prefer. Interesting additions are the pictures you can find when you click on one of the words and the Visual Thesaurus. 




Now give this puzzle a try!

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