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1. Classroom Activities

   In: English Teaching Forum 2011, Volume 49, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This section presents three stand-alone language-learning activities for different level classrooms. The interactive activities focus on skills that familiarize students with simple sentence structures, present tense, grammar review through group work and games, a vocabulary review, and an activity to help students understand the concept of metaphors and use them in their writing.

2. Spin One's Words

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This resource contains idioms related to time.

3. Guess What? Guess the Words

   In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

   In this game, the topic of the Guess What? card is given. Then the Guessers race to call out as many words that appear on the card as possible in 1 minute.

4. The Lighter Side of TEFL: Puzzle Stories

   In: The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 1 Format(s): Text

   This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on puzzle stories, which are "thinking" games that get students to think about what they are listening to or reading. This section has an audio component.

5. The Lighter Side: Speak and Spell

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle, “Speak and Spell,” is an exercise in homophones, or words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same

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

   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.

8. The Lighter Side

   In: English Teaching Forum 2008, Volume 46, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This is a word game that asks the reader to fill letters in spaces to create words. Cues are provided.

9. The Lighter Side: Poetry Word Search

   In: English Teaching Forum 2006, Volume 44, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This is a word game where readers are expected to find poetry terms in a box of letters. Cues are given.

10. Guess What? - Mime the Words

    In: Activate Games for Learning English - Guess What? Format(s): Text

    In Mime the Words, the Describer is allowed to say the topic and nothing else. Instead, the Describer must describe the words on the Guess What? card using mime.

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