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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Food for Thought Crossword Puzzle

Do you like crossword puzzles as much as I do?
I doubt it! :)

Print it out and give it a try!

For more such puzzles, visit http://nhd.heinle.com/activities.aspx (requires Java)

These are much easier than the ones made for students at the New York Times.

Let me know if you get stuck!

As you can see, there are quite a few food-related puzzles, so make a snack and atart solving :) !

Airport: At the Airport
Animals: A World of Animals
Cars: Cars and Car Parts
Computer: Computer Terms
Dairy: Down at the Dairy
Entertainment: Words are Entertaining
Factory: Working at the Factory
Food: Food for Thought
Flowers: The Flower Show
Fruit: Fruit Salad
Garden: Working in the Garden
Geography: Know Your Geography
Home: Home Sweet Home
Jobs: A Job Well Done
Office: Around the Office
Personal Hygiene: Good Personal Hygiene
Plants: A Whole Crop of Plants
Preparing Food: Preparing Food
School: School's in Session
Science: Science Experiment
Seafood: Under the Sea
Space: Outer Space
Sports: Sports Fan
Tools: Tools of the Trade
Transportation: Transportation Terms
Trees: Swinging from the Trees
Utility Room: The Useful Utility Room
Vegetable: Garden Vegetables
Weather: Wild Weather

Crossword puzzles

Crossword puzzles are a great (and fun!) way to improve your vocabulary.

Many of these puzzles are themed, so you can learn a lot about American culture.

TIP: You can always print them out and do them with pencil and paper. If you find that too challenging, you can do them online and get hints, maybe a few letters to help you think of the word you are looking for.

It's always good to keep track of the new and useful vocabulary you learn from each puzzle, maybe by adding it to your vocabulary.com lists or your vocab notebook. And remember to use the new words! Use 'em or lose 'em!

Here are a couple relevant for SUK2 students.

Here are a couple relevant for SUK4 students.

Mathematics

Science

Periodic Table of the Elements

20 Years of Science Times

Technology

20th Century Inventions

Language

Building Blocks of Vocabulary

American History

Asian-American History

The Civil Rights Movement

The 1960's

The 1950's

The Declaration of Independence

The Pilgrims

Westward Expansion

The Fifty States

Life in Colonial America

Thanksgiving

Native American History

The Civil War

The Roaring 20's

The American Revolution

Independence Day

Black History Month

Hispanic Heritage

Geography

Holidays Around the World

World Capitals

State Capitals

Bodies of Water

Architectural Marvels

Landmarks and Monuments

Places and Regions

Miscellaneous

Baseball

Preparing for College

Saying ''Thank You'' Around the World

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Easier Crosswords on various topics

Not very difficult crosswords that can be done online (with hints) or printed out. Good way to expand your vocab!

Word Web Crosswords

Airport: At the Airport
Animals: A World of Animals
Cars: Cars and Car Parts
Computer: Computer Terms
Dairy: Down at the Dairy
Entertainment: Words are Entertaining
Factory: Working at the Factory
Food: Food for Thought
Flowers: The Flower Show
Fruit: Fruit Salad
Garden: Working in the Garden
Geography: Know Your Geography
Home: Home Sweet Home
Jobs: A Job Well Done
Office: Around the Office
Personal Hygiene: Good Personal Hygiene
Plants: A Whole Crop of Plants
Preparing Food: Preparing Food
School: School's in Session
Science: Science Experiment
Seafood: Under the Sea
Space: Outer Space
Sports: Sports Fan
Tools: Tools of the Trade
Transportation: Transportation Terms
Trees: Swinging from the Trees
Utility Room: The Useful Utility Room
Vegetable: Garden Vegetables
Weather: Wild Weather

Challenge Crosswords

Challenge Crossword 1
Challenge Crossword 2
Challenge Crossword 3
Challenge Crossword 4
Challenge Crossword 5

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

NYTimes

For me, and many other people around the world, this is the best newspaper in the world.

The good news is that recently the good people at the NYTimes website have made their entire archives (back to 1981!)freely accessible.

This is an incredible resource for everyone who appreciates good writing.

A little anecdote: I was cleaning my office today and came across an interesting newspaper clipping I had saved and written a few RC Qs about.
It was about a speech therapist in NYC who helps people get rid of their accent or acquire a new accent (like actors often have to do. He has an unusual name, Chwat, so I thought what the hell...I'll go ahead and see if I can find the article and then I'd be able to use it in a class for RC practice. Sure enough, in less than 2 seconds I had found and printed out the entire article, which, even though it was written back in 1993, is still of interest for language students.

The website is huge, but well-organized and has a lot to offer language learners.

Have a look, for example at the Learning Network.

Or for some good conversation topics, try News Snapshot.

or improve your Vocab AND Culture by doing a Crossword Puzzle.

There is much much more interesting stuff to do and read and even videos to watch and entire First Chapters of the latest bestsellers to read...

Monday, July 2, 2007

Crosswords anyone?

Crosswords are a GREAT way to improve your vocabulary.

These are excellently constructed themed crosswords from the New York Times Learning Network on all kinds of topics. You will definitely find some that interest you. Print some out and use them as bookmarks or to do while you are waiting for a bus...

If your browser supports Java, you can play the puzzle on-line.