Re-establishes the playfulness, creativity, and joy in teaching and learning. It offers practical classroom activities to spark ideas and develop creativity while having fun. The first section discusses the "serious stuff"--The cognitive, emotional, physical, and social benefits of using humor in the classroom. 16 activities follow that focus on building rapport among students and with the teacher. Next, are six activities that help students learn about laughter and types of humor. Then there are over 50 activities that include jokes, puns, riddles, joy breaks, language builders, and quizzes--Cover.

Mr. Wolf's class ventures out on an exciting field trip to the forest! Mr. Wolf's students are going on a field trip! Everyone gets to sleep in log cabins, come up with fun camp names, and journey through the great woods. They'll be learning about the oldest and largest trees in the forest, exploring an abandoned ghost town, and toasting s'mores over a campfire. On top of all that, there are kids from a different school to meet!Meanwhile, Aziza and Randy must learn how to work through an argument, and Abdi is worried that he can't keep up with Henry and his new friends.There's much to do, see, and learn in the outdoors!

This book focuses on summarizing four elements from the classic Chinese literary theory: truth, beauty, emotion and imagination. Based on the latest findings from learning sciences and brain science, it elaborates on the reasons for creating contexts in language teaching. It also shows how the aesthetical theories can be used to nurture contextualized instruction and presents six major approaches for creating contexts: creating contexts with real objects, representing contexts with pictures, evoking contexts with music, experiencing contexts with acting, unfolding contexts with real life, and describing contexts with languages. The author is a practitioner with over 30 years of practical research experience and all their studies are discussed in this book.

The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

“A normal surface acoustic wave touch screen is based on two simultaneous receivers/transmitters of sound waves on the X and Y axes, when…” The classroom fell silent, the teacher suddenly stopped the line of scribbles he was writing on. the board, turned down and asked: "Yesterday I announced the scope of the review, can anyone tell me how the sound waves work?". The black eyes hidden behind the glasses began to scan the classroom.