The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 1
Activity
Resource Collection
The Lighter Side of TEFL is a collection of activities taken from "The Lighter Side," a recurring feature section in English Teaching Forum that first appeared in 1976. The text includes word games, crossword puzzles, idioms, limericks, jokes, riddles, and international folk tales. Each activity is self-contained on one page for easy duplication by the teacher and includes teaching suggestions and an answer key. The title is available as a book and also on CD. There is also an audio component featuring humorous short pieces for listening comprehension. This audio component is included on the CD and also available on audiocassette.
Downloadable Resources
| File | Format | Size | Download |
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| lside_e_introduction.pdf | 524.22kb | Download |
Resources In This Collection
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.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 1 of 1
095-108-s2-crossword-puzzle.pdf
pdf502.63kb
This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on folk wisdom from different cultures around the world. This section has an audio component.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 4 of 5
172-177-s8-folk-wisdom.pdf
pdf225.3kb
18-page-173.mp3
mp33.74mb
19-page-174.mp3
mp33.62mb
20-page-175.mp3
mp32.91mb
There are so many idioms in American English. The Lighter Side of TEFL has a section devoted to idioms, and you can download it for free.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 1 of 1
109-128-s3-idioms.pdf
pdf1.03mb
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.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 4 of 5
133-153-s5-jokes-and-riddles.pdf
pdf861.69kb
02-section-5-part-1.mp3
mp3156.79kb
04-page-134.mp3
mp34.33mb
05-page-136.mp3
mp35.47mb
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.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 1 of 1
129-132-s4-limericks.pdf
pdf264kb
This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on puzzle stories, which are "thinking" games that get students to think about what they are listening to or reading. This section has an audio component.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 4 of 6
154-161-s6-puzzle-stories.pdf
pdf312.85kb
07-page-155.mp3
mp33.09mb
08-page-156.mp3
mp32.56mb
09-page-157.mp3
mp32.85mb
This section of The Lighter Side of TEFL focuses on shaggy dog stories, which are long-winded tales that gradually work up to a surprise ending. This section has an audio component.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 4 of 7
162-171-s7-shaggy-dog-stories.pdf
pdf222.74kb
12-page-163.mp3
mp32.94mb
13-page-164.mp3
mp33.38mb
14-page-165.mp3
mp33.8mb
This section focuses on word games, which reinforces learned vocabulary.
Author:
Elizabeth Ball
Assets
Showing 1 of 1
001-094-s1-word-games.pdf
pdf3.76mb
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