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1. Winter Scenes

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   ʺWinter Scenesʺ is a series of photos with captions. The pictures can be used as writing or discussion prompts.

2. The Lighter Side: The Write Stuff

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Do you like puzzles and words? Then check out this English Teaching Forum crossword puzzle.

3. The Blues Singers

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This is the second in a four-part series about the Blues, a unique form of music born out of the African slave culture in the United States. When slaves were freed, their musical traditions blended with European musical styles into Jazz and the Blues. This article features stories about leading Blues musicians throughout the history of the music, including B. B. King, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and Bessie Smith.

4. 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.

5. Lesson Plan: Seeing Seattle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This lesson plan contains four main activities and two optional activities based on the feature article about Seattle.

6. The Lighter Side: Seattle Crossword Puzzle

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is a crossword puzzle based on facts about Seattle.

7. Lesson Plan: Quilting with Language

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This lesson plan contains four activities based on the cultural content of quilts. It includes activities for teaching vocabulary and grammar, speaking, writing, and a dicto-comp activity (in which there is both dictation and composition).

8. The Lighter Side

   In: English Teaching Forum 2007, Volume 45, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This “Weather Word Search” gives learners practice with weather-related vocabulary.

9. Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This

   Format(s): Text

   Picture This cards are a set of cards that can be used for a variety of conversation and word games in English classes.

10. Picture This – Simple Switches

    In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

    In Simple Switches, students ask each other questions that they have altered from the original question on a Picture This card.

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