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1. Alphabet Connect: From "The Lighter Side" of TEFL

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity, called “Alphabet Connect,” aims to help vocabulary skills. It asks students to connect the letters of the alphabet to create the name of animal that lives in forests of Southeast Asia and Africa. It thus uses integrated skills to learn about animals in other countries.

2. The Lighter Side: Three Pragmatics Puzzles

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

   Three pragmatics puzzles.

3. 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?

4. 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.)

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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?

9. 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.

10. The Lighter Side: Small Talk

    In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    “Small talk” refers to short, friendly conversations about topics that are not serious.

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