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1. Lesson Plan: A Letter from Miami: A Telenovela

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

   This lesson plan contains four activities that can prepare students for the final activity of creating a video or a play. There are also two optional activities to help students learn grammar, and a fact sheet about Miami.

2. 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.

3. Chicago, Illinois: The Windy City

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

   This is an introduction to Chicago, including its brief history, attractions, geographical characteristics, and interesting facts. It also contains pictures of local attractions.

4. 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.

5. The Lighter Side

   In: English Teaching Forum 2004, Volume 42, Issue 1 Format(s): Text

   These are two vocabulary activities. “J-Words Crossword Puzzle” invites students to use clues to fill in a crossword with words that start with the letter “J.” "Postcards Word Search" uses vocabulary from the feature article, "A Postcard from America."

6. The LIghter Side of TEFL: Limericks

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

   This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on limericks, which are light, nonsensical verses of five lines in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other and the third and fourth lines, shorter in form, make up a rhymed couplet.

7. Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education

   Format(s): Text

   The content in each volume of this e-journal is related to an aspect of building or maintaining a Civil Society - topics that affect students' personal or professional lives on a daily basis. The topic of this volume is civic education. Through the exploration of topics related to civic education, language teachers can help their students master English and simultaneously become more knowledgeable citizens of the world.

8. Chapter 4: Individual Responsibilities and Citizenship

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on the responsibilities that come with citizenship.

9. Chapter 7: Societal Dilemmas: Finding a Balance

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on the tensions that exist between the values, needs, and interests of individuals and those of society at large.

10. Chapter 8: Societal Dilemmas: Gains and Losses

    In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

    This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on the "gains" and "losses" that accompany global change.

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