Word Search

A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Often a list of the hidden words is provided, but more challenging puzzles may let the player figure them out. Many word search puzzles have a theme to which all the hidden words are related. The puzzles have, like crosswordsand arrowords, been very popular in the United Kingdom, and - also in common with these latter puzzles - have had complete magazines devoted to them.

Word searches are commonly found in daily newspapers and puzzle books. Some teachers use them as educational tools for children, the benefit being that young minds can learn new words and their spellings by intensively searching for them, letter by letter, in the puzzle.

Word search puzzles are often used in a teaching or classroom environment, especially in language and foreign language classrooms. Some teachers, particularly those specializing in English as a Second Language (ESL), use word search puzzles as an instructional tool. Other teachers use them as a recreational activity for students, instead.

Sometimes you need to adapt the material from the course book to make it more atractive to the students and more dynamic, interactive. 

these are some website to create your own puzzles according with the topic you are teaching:

http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/word-search-maker/wordsearch.php http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle_wordcross 

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/generator-word-search.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_search

Crossword Puzzle

A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white-and black-shaded squares. The game's goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues, which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words and phrases are placed in the grid from left to right and from top to bottom. The shaded squares are used to separate the words or phrases.

Capitalization of answer letters is conventionally ignored; crossword puzzles are typically filled in, and their answer sheets are almost universally published, in all caps, except in the rare cases of ambigrams. This ensures a proper name can have its initial capital letter checked with a non-capitalizable letter in the intersecting clue. Diacritical markings in foreign loanwords (or foreign-language words appearing in English-language puzzles) are ignored for similar reasons.

These are some websites where toy can create your own puzzles:

https://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/ 

https://www.education.com/worksheet-generator/reading/crossword-puzzle/ http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword

VOCABULARY  LIST:

Vocabulary is all about words — the words in a language or a special set of words you are trying to learn. Usually arranged in alphabetical order. Each list has a topic, a set of family words: Verbs, animals, food, etc. It is used in classrooms to introduce the vocabulary the students will use during a lesson that saves time instead of looking for words in a dictionary.  if you want it can include pictures.

POSTER

A poster is a large notice or picture that you stick on a wall or board. As a teacher you can find these materials available on stores, made them by yourself or as a class activity, the students can design them according with the topic you are revising.