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1. The Lighter Side: "Listen Up!"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This activity sheet presents a listening exercise based on rhymes.

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: "Dog Tricks"

   In: English Teaching Forum 2014, Volume 52, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, readers use clues to fill in commands that someone might give to a dog.

4. The Prisoner’s Dilemma – A Game of Decision-Making

   Format(s): Text, Website, Image / Poster / Maps

   How do people make Decisions? This game, presented by The National Science Foundation, is an example of decision science called “Game Theory”.

5. The Lighter Side: Place Out of Words

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   In this puzzle, culture-based questions are given, but some words appear where they should not; your job is to move the words around so that the questions make sense.

6. The Lighter Side: Fifty, More or Less

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle commemorates the 50th anniversary of the English Language Fellow Program and lets readers test their knowledge of whether each clue refers to something that is more than 50, less than 50, or exactly 50.

7. The Lighter Side: Fictional Languages

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle presents examples of five fictional languages; can you figure out the rule that each fictional language follows?

8. The Lighter Side: Reverse Categories

   In: English Teaching Forum 2019, Volume 57, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This puzzle presents lists of words; your job is to divide them into categories logically so that everything fits.

9. The Lighter Side: Medical Mix-Ups

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Oops! In each of these sentences, related to medicine and health, one word is misused and needs to be replaced with a word it rhymes with. Can you solve this fun puzzle?

10. The Lighter Side: Sounds Good!

    In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3 Format(s): Text, Video

    In English, words with similar spellings don’t always rhyme, while words with different spellings might rhyme. Can you find the rhymes in this puzzle?

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