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1. The Lighter Side: Three Pragmatics Puzzles

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Three pragmatics puzzles.

2. The Lighter Side: IDEA

   In: English Teaching Forum 2025, Volume 63, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Can you complete the given sentences and create i-d-e-a sentences in this puzzle, which is based on the word idea?

3. The Lighter Side: Spell a Sport

   In: English Teaching Forum 2025, Volume 63, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Can you change one letter in each word to spell the name of a sport? (A bonus puzzle gives you a chance to change one letter to spell a kind of animal.)

4. Going Beyond “The Lighter Side” Puzzles for English Language Practice

   In: English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Author Tom Glass describes multiple ways that teachers can use and adapt “The Lighter Side” puzzles, found in all issues of English Teaching Forum, to give students extended language practice by solving puzzles and creating new puzzles of their own. The article includes examples from puzzles that teachers can find and download (for free) on the American English website.

5. The Lighter Side: Football Transformers

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This issue's The Lighter Side introduces a word game with a football related theme.

6. The Lighter Side: "Fish Tanks"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In these two puzzles, readers use clues and logic to place fish in the appropriate tanks.

7. The Lighter Side: Grammar Crimes and Misdemeanors

   In: English Teaching Forum 2025, Volume 63, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   English can sometimes be a strange language … can you spot the “troublemakers” by identifying sneaky, silent letters?

8. The Lighter Side: You’re Not Listening!

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The Lighter Side activities related to listening in the classroom.

9. The Lighter Side: "Animal Sounds"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle invites students to make use of animal vocabulary and use letter clues to create words for the sounds that animals make.

10. The Lighter Side: What's Missing?

    In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    This fill-in the blank worksheet list activities that might be part of an English Club meeting.

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