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 The
Lighter Side
The Lighter Side is a
collection of activities and a recurring feature
section in English Teaching Forum. The text
includes word games, crossword puzzles, idioms, limericks, jokes, riddles,
and international folk tales. Each activity is self-contained for easy
duplication. |
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The Lighter Side |
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The Lighter Side: Alphabet Connect -
1 page - This activity, called “Alphabet Connect,”
aims to help vocabulary skills. It asks students to connect the letters of
the alphabet to create the name of animal that lives in forests of Southeast
Asia and Africa. It thus uses integrated skills to learn about animals in
other countries.
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The Lighter Side: Three Pragmatics Puzzles -
2 pages - Three pragmatics puzzles.
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The Lighter Side: What's Missing? -
2 pages - This fill-in the blank worksheet list
activities that might be part of an English Club meeting.
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The Lighter Side: "Fish Tanks" -
2 pages - In these two puzzles, readers use clues
and logic to place fish in the appropriate tanks.
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The Lighter Side: Football Transformers -
2 pages - This issue's The Lighter Side introduces
a word game with a football related theme.
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The Lighter Side: "Animal Sounds" -
2 pages - This puzzle invites students to make use
of animal vocabulary and use letter clues to create words for the sounds
that animals make.
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The Lighter Side: Debate Dialogue -
2 pages - This puzzle is a Debate Dialogue with
words missing from arguments and counterarguments on the topic, “Mobile
technology is more helpful than harmful.”
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The Lighter Side: Speak and Spell -
2 pages - This puzzle, “Speak and Spell,” is an
exercise in homophones, or words that are spelled differently but pronounced
the same.
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The Lighter Side: You’re Not Listening! -
1 page - The Lighter Side activities related to
listening in the classroom.
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The Lighter Side: Debate Vocabulary -
2 pages - Enjoy these two puzzles related to the
topic of debates. One puzzle gives "For" and "Against" statements with
blanks that must be filled in. The second puzzle, available only online, is
a crossword that features vocabulary commonly used in debates.
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The Lighter Side: Small Talk -
2 pages - “Small talk” refers to short, friendly
conversations about topics that are not serious.
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The Lighter Side: A Maps Mind Map -
2 pages - The Lighter Side features an English
language–based puzzle that can be photocopied and given to students to solve
individually or collaboratively.
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The Lighter Side: "A Script by the Numbers" -
2 pages - In this puzzle, use numbers to fill in
blanks in a short script.
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The Lighter Side: The Write Stuff -
2 pages - Do you like puzzles and words? Then
check out this English Teaching Forum crossword puzzle.
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The Lighter Side: Silent Letters -
2 pages - “Silent Letters” expands on the silent
“K” in knitting, giving students practice with silent letters. The activity
requires students to fill in missing words from a dialogue on the topic of
knitting. Some letters of the missing words are provided.
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The Lighter Side: A Jumble Garden Activity -
2 pages - 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.
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The Lighter Side: "Shop Talk" -
2 pages - This puzzle asks questions about various
parts of motorcycles; the answer to each question is then written in a grid.
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The Lighter Side: Rock the Boat -
2 pages - This puzzle requires unscrambling the
names of various boats and using designated letters to solve a riddle.
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The Lighter Side: "Bird Logic" -
2 pages - This puzzle invites users to compare
bird facts and use logic to determine the secret numbers assigned to ten
birds.
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The Lighter Side: "Dog Tricks" -
2 pages - In this puzzle, readers use clues to
fill in commands that someone might give to a dog.
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The Lighter Side: Place Out of Words -
2 pages - 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.
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The Lighter Side: Word Sudoku -
2 pages - In this puzzle, you complete Word Sudoku
puzzles by using letters, not numbers, and spelling a target word.
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The Lighter Side: Fishy Fun -
2 pages - There are two games. The first has five
tongue twisters, each word missing a letter which the student must complete.
The second game is a matching game, but the words are missing letters which
the student must fill in before he/she completes the match. The games help
with vocabulary and spelling.
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The Lighter Side: Stage Directions -
2 pages - Stage directions describe characters’
emotions or actions; they help actors interpret scripts.
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The Lighter Side: Classroom Clues -
2 pages - Unscramble these words to spell verbs
and verb phrases.
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 Music
Radio
I added this
cool music player from VOA playing the top hits
and world news. Music player opens in a small popup
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 Hey Students,
Use this dictionary and reference to look up any words you do not
understand in Fun Easy English.
Note: search opens in a new tab. |
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Search Fun Easy English |
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