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1. Board Game: Use a Word

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

   This board game provides students with a specific word they should try to use in a sentence. Download the game, instructions, and game variations.

2. Picture This – Pass It On

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

   In Pass It On, students use the vocabulary words on a Picture This card to create a story. Download cards and instructions.

3. 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.

4. Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks

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   Word Bricks help students identify word patterns in sentences. This overview will teach you sentence structure and patterns and help you to master all of the Word Bricks games!

5. Word Bricks-Brick Bingo

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   Brick Bingo helps students make connections between the spoken and written forms of words in a fun, low-stress game. Download the game and instructions!

6. Word Bricks-Sentence Boundaries

   In: Activate: Games for Learning American English - Word Bricks Format(s): Text

   Use Word Bricks to help your students practice sentence patterns. In the game Sentence Boundaries, teams compete to complete five sentence patterns using the Word Bricks. Download Word Bricks and the instructions!

7. Activate: Games for Learning American English

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   Are you looking for fun, meaningful activities to use in your classroom? Check out these board games! Game themes require students to produce certain types of expressions, so they practice a variety of vocabulary, grammatical patterns, and functional meanings.

8. Discovering Grammar with Consciousness-Raising Tasks

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   Introduces consciousness-raising task (CR tasks), which encourage students to notice characteristics and patterns related to form, meaning, and/or use while actively exploring the target grammar feature.

9. 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.

10. The Lighter Side of TEFL: Jokes and Riddles

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

    This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on jokes and riddles, which play with language and make people laugh at the same time. This section has an audio component.

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