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1. The Lighter Side: Winter Sports Word Search

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This winter sports word search gives students clues to the name of a sport they need to find in the puzzle.

2. The Lighter Side: "Traffic Jam"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet requires unscrambling a factual statement about cars and a follow-up question that can be used for classroom discussion.

3. The Lighter Side: Second-Letter y

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle gives you definitions; your job is to think of a word for each definition—and every answer is a word with y as its second letter.

4. The Lighter Side: "Shop Talk"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle asks questions about various parts of motorcycles; the answer to each question is then written in a grid.

5. The Lighter Side: Sophie’s Seven Tasks

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   Last week, “Sophie” completed tasks related to every article in this issue of Forum. Can you find the order in which she completed the tasks?

6. The Lighter Side: "An English Class Logic-Grid Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, your job is to solve a logic-grid puzzle that is based on elements of sentences that three students have written. After you have solved the puzzle, you must determine the sentence that each student wrote from a list of choices.

7. The Lighter Side: Baseball Terms with Everyday Meanings

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This matching activity offers students words that are related to baseball but also have a second meaning. They must match the term with both meanings.

8. 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.

9. The Lighter Side

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This is a word game that asks the reader to make as many words as possible using the letters in “cruise ship.” Cues are provided.

10. The Lighter Side: Tenpins

    In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 4 Format(s): Text

    “Tenpins” is a bowling-themed activity that requires learners to finish ten words that include the letters “ten."

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