A poem reviewing the plot of "Macbeth" is a sample of what teachers and students can create as a review exercise before examinations. (RL)

Reports on a class activity in which students wrote letters to leaders and personalities in the fields of art, literature, and politics to solicit bits of their "trash" for a student art show. (RL)

Ten ideas for elementary education science activities are presented. Scientific topics included are: archeology, astronomy, biology, anatomy, nutrition, earth science, and inventions. (CJ)

A college technical writing class project on preparing an instruction manual for a toy race-car set not only showed that the students recognized their audience and used appropriate language, but also provided subject matter for other coursework. (RL)

Shows that the compulsion for neatness in students' in-class writing assignments is something that teachers should resist. (RL)

Presents an introductory summary in defense of "reading aloud" in the English as a foreign language classroom and a more substantial section offering practical suggestions for handling it. The defense centers on a clarification of the purpose of reading aloud. Descriptions of different reading activities are included along with methods of…

Presents two techniques, peer teaching and group work, for use in the classroom at the elementary or advanced level of an English as a foreign language course. Peer teaching is recommended as a technique for recall of older material, while group work is used for drilling, reinforcing, and working out difficult material. (PJM)

Provides instruction for a game for the ESL classroom in which students work in pairs, playing a husband and wife who want to sort out their TV viewing schedule. The exercise gives students practice in telling time, asking about programs, making suggestions, asking about preferences, and learning about English television programs. (PJM)

Outlines a procedure for using television in a second language classroom where the teacher first presents vocabulary and then shows a program clip. A test of comprehension may follow. The students then study the whole text of the program, and work on exercises based on structures similar to the television text. (PJM)

A class project simulating television talk show discussions demonstrates that book reports need not be drudgery for the students or for the teacher. (RL)

Discusses the "Shrinking Book Technique," a method for teaching novels to an EFL class. The procedure consists of marking key passages of a novel of varying lengths, mounting them on cards and distributing a different one to each member of the class. Each student then becomes responsible for a particular passage and links between the passages are…

Surveys the purposes, effectiveness, selection, and design of simulations and provides some criteria by which faculty may judge the suitability of the play element for meeting classroom needs. Lists of resources for simulation selection and directories of games are appended. (Author/MER)

Recreational reading was encouraged in a sixth-grade class through a "Famous People Auction Project." For each book read and reported on during the year, students accumulated play money, with which they could bid at an auction for mementoes the teacher had solicited from celebrities. (SJL)

Presents a series of relaxation exercises designed to calm a fidgety class: body and muscle awareness, contraction and relaxation, and visualization. (SJL)

Proposes the use of the song "Deportees," by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffmann in the English as a Second Language classroom. (IFS/WGA)