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1. The Color Vowel Chart

   Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This is a powerful tool for teaching spoken English. It helps teachers incorporate pronunciation into lessons. Check out the chart, the teacher’s guide, and the webinar on how to teach with The Color Vowel Chart.

2. The Lighter Side: The Write Stuff

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Do you like puzzles and words? Then check out this English Teaching Forum crossword puzzle.

3. The Lighter Side: A Jumble Garden Activity

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

   This activity, called Jumble Garden, requires students to unscramble letters to make words. The definitions of the 14 scrambled words are provided to aid the students in unscrambling the letters.

4. The Lighter Side: Baseball Terms with Everyday Meanings

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This matching activity offers students words that are related to baseball but also have a second meaning. They must match the term with both meanings.

5. The Alphabet Song

   In: Sing Out Loud Children's Songs Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   The Alphabet Song teaches the English language alphabet. Poster included.

6. Over the River and Through the Woods

   In: Sing Out Loud Children's Songs Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   A popular song during American holidays, particularly Thanksgiving. Poster included.

7. I'm a Little Teapot

   In: Sing Out Loud Children's Songs Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   This song describes a teapot and how it works. Poster included.

8. Hickory Dickory Dock

   In: Sing Out Loud Children's Songs Format(s): MP3, Text, Image / Poster / Maps

   This song in the Sing Out Loud Children's Songs collection introduces students to numbers. Poster included.

9. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

   In: The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories Format(s): Text

   In this story from The Red Badge of Courage, Jack Potter, the policeman of a small town in east Texas called Yellow Sky, takes his new bride back to town.

10. 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.

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