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Kral, Thomas, Ed. The Lighter Side of TEFL: A Teacher's Resource Book of Fun Activities for Students of English as a Foreign Language. United States Information Agency, Washington, DC. English Language Programs Div. 1994-04-00 143p. Guides Classroom Teacher (052) MF01/PC06 Plus Postage. *Class Activities; *English (Second Language); *Figurative Language; *Folk Culture; *Games; *Humor; Idioms; Instructional Materials; Language Skills; Poetry; Puzzles; Second Language Instruction; Short Stories; Skill Development Jokes; Limericks; Riddles

ABSTRACT The guide provides teachers of English as a Foreign Language

(TEFL) with classroom instructional activities that reinforce vocabulary or teach specific language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) while demonstrating that communicating in English can be fun. The activities are brief and self-contained, and an audiotape cassette (not included) is designed for use with the last four sections of the book. Each section focuses on a different type of activity: word games; crossword puzzles; idioms; limericks; jokes and riddles; puzzle stories; shaggy dog stories; and folk wisdom. An answer key is also included. (MSE)

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A Teacher's Resource Book of Fun Activities for Students of English as a Foreign Language

Edited by Thomas Kral

The Lighter Side of TEFL

Published by the Materials Development and Review Branch English Language Programs Division United States Information Agency Washington, D.C. 20547 First published April 1994 Editor: Thomas Kral Layout and Design: Cynthia Malecki Cover Art: Guy Schum

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Dedicated to Anne Covell Newton

"A little of this and a little of that (A balanced mixture of lean and fat) Adds spice to the pudding; it cannot hurt, And it brings to the reader his just dessert. "*

From the first Lighter Side Page published in the English Teaching Forum, January 1976

The Lighter Side of TEFL is a collection of activities taken from the English Teaching Forum 1976 to the present. They have been regrouped and arranged into new categories to facilitate teacher use.

As the title of the text implies, The Lighter Side of TEFL exposes students to humorous aspects of American English to create a cheerful classroom atmosphere and a positive orientation to the language. Many of the activities reinforce vocabulary or give students practice in listening, thinking, speaking and writing, but the underlying goal of all activities is to produce a smile and an awareness that communicating in English has a lighter side and a potential for fun.

The activities are short and self-contained, and they may be good for starting off or ending a class hour. Because humor is something to be shared, the activities should be done in pairs or small groups and then discussed with the class as a whole. An answer key to the exercises is found at the end of the book.

The book is a handbook for teachers. They may choose to reproduce individual pages for occasional use in their classes or as group homework assignments. The book is not meant as a textbook for EFL students to be completed from cover to cover during a term of study.

The accompanying cassette is to be used with the last four sections of the book that are dedicated to listening comprehension activities and discussion. Collectively, the recorded sections provide learners with a variety of different speakers representing a cross section of American dialects.

As editor, my task has been to select, classify and contextualize the different activities that appeared in the English Teaching Forum over the last seventeen years. For the most part, the puzzles and games were created by Anne Covell Newton who edited the magazine and to whom this book is dedicated. Anne has consistently been an advocate of bringing humor and wit into the classroom. We both hope this text will lighten up the EFL learning process and heighten the joy of both teaching and learning the language.

Thomas Kral

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