ABCs provides students with vocabulary practice by asking them to think of vocabu­lary words that are related to many different topics. Students use Picture This cards as a starting point for each topic. Then they come up with related vocabulary items that begin with many letters of the alphabet. This game works well as a whole-class activity or as a competition among groups. 

Activate: Games for Learning American English is a collection of games for the language classroom. The games in Activate offer interactive English language practice in a learner-centered, low-stress environment. Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

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The song You Made Me Laugh by Omar Kent Dykes, a blues guitarist and singer, is an engaging example of Texas blues-rock. Texas is one of the places (in addition to cities such as Chicago and Memphis) where the original blues became very popular before spreading to other parts of the U.S.A. Blues music is easily recognizable by its rhythms and combinations of chords. In addition, when you hear the electric guitar, the harmonica, the bass and drums together, you can almost certainly bet that someone is playing the blues. Blues-rock is all that, with the addition of a faster-paced rhythm dictated by the drums.

You Made me Laugh is one of the songs found in the album On the Jimmy Reed Highway. The album consists of songs penned or originally performed by the late blues artist Jimmy Reed, an influential electric blues musician in the U.S. In addition, some of the songs in the album were especially written in Jimmy Reed’s honor. From the very start of You Made Me Laugh, you know are you in for a great musical ride.

The board game Which One Is Different? Why? gives students an opportunity to debate which idea is different from the rest. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.