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1. Picture This – Questions, Questions

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

   This game gives students practice forming yes/no questions. Download the cards and instructions for the game.

2. The Lighter Side of TEFL: Crossword Puzzles

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

   This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on crossword puzzles, a challenging word game in which students must decide which word satisfies the clue and fits the number of available spaces.

3. 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.

4. Climbing Grammar Mountain: An Interactive Learning Experience

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article describes a grammar game that is an enjoyable way for students to correct sentences. In Climbing Grammar Mountain, best suited for secondary and university students, learners compete in teams to “climb” a game board. They earn needed equipment in the form of sentences. If a student can correctly state whether a sentence is grammatical, s/he is able to proceed, with bonus points for correcting an incorrect sentence. The game board, sample sentences, and instructions for teachers and students are included along with suggestions for adaptations.

5. Smithsonian IdeaLabs

   Format(s): Video, Website

   Visit the Smithsonian IdeaLabs to view online student tutorials that bring the museums to life, featuring American history, science, and culture.

6. Spin One's Words

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

   This resource contains idioms related to time.

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

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle gives you a chance to transform the word note to the word song, one letter (and one word) at a time.

9. Exclusive Online Content: English Club Email (Puzzle)

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Do you like puzzles? Try this bonus puzzle, “English Club Email.” Available only online!

10. Teaching Conversation with Trivia

    In: English Teaching Forum 2002, Volume 40, Number 2 Format(s): Text

    This article presents reasons for using trivia (a quizzing game) to teach conversation and provides tips on how trivia-based materials fit into communicative language teaching approaches. It also presents examples of trivia-based activities that can be used in the conversation classroom. The article suggests that using trivia-based materials makes the content more interesting, meaningful, and thus motivating for learners.

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