The online game “Bookworm” is a fun way to expand the vocabulary of pupils and to test their spelling in an interesting fashion. I have produced a list of some of the weird and wonderful words in Bookworm. My advice to students who come across an unusual word is to find out what it means and share it with classmates who are also playing the game.

This short story is an object lesson on smoking and health based on real events at a school “somewhere in Sussex”

This is a quiz on proverbs. The second document gives the answers if you need them.

This is a quiz about proverbs. It is a multiple choice quiz. The correct answer is underlined on the second sheet. The rebus of course refers to “A fate worse than death”.

100 most common words in English. Useful in TEFL and English teaching. Also interesting.