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The Tower Tip Sheet
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The Tower Tipsheet
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Oct 17, 2004 00:30 PDT
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THE TOWER TIPSHEET
October 17, 2004
#425
Published by:
The Tower of English
http://towerofenglish.com
Welcome to this issue of the Tower Tipsheet.
This issue of the Tower Tipsheet is sponsored by John's ESL Community
Happy Halloween everybody! Be sure to visit John's ESL Community
and download your FREE, Printable Halloween Worksheets. You students
will have so much fun with our worksheets that they will forget they
are learning. Get your free, printable Halloween worksheets at
http://www.johnsesl.com/printables/holidays/halloween/
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Today's Cool Websites
2. Today's Idiom
3. Today's Worksheet
4. Today's Joke
5. Today's Riddle
6. Feedback
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TODAY'S COOL WEBSITES
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Cool Website #1 -Ghost Stories -
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http://www.towerofenglish.com/fright.html
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Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever seen a ghost?
Do you know anybody who has seen a ghost? ARE YOU A
GHOST? One of the fun Halloween traditions is telling
ghost stories. At this site, you'll find lots of (true?)
ghost stories that people have sent in.
Your Turn:
Do you know a scary ghost story? Make some notes about
the story, and then tell your story to some of your
friends or classmates. If you've never actually seen a
ghost, or don't know a good ghost story, that's ok. Just
make one up! To really enjoy these stories, you should
tell them with the lights off, and some candles burning!
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John's ESL Holidays
Learn about the origins of Halloween at
John's ESL Holidays.
http://holidays.johnsesl.com/php/hween.phtml
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ATTENTION ESL TEACHERS
Did you know that word search puzzles are a great way to
reinforce new vocabulary? Now you can make your own word
search puzzles. Enter your list of words, click a button
and then print. It's easy, fun, and it's FREE.
http://www.johnsesl.com/wordsearch/searchcreate.shtml
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Cool Website #2 -The Moon Lit Road-
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http://www.towerofenglish.com/themoonlitroad.html
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Here are some great traditional ghost stories and
folktales from the American South. You can READ these
stories, or you can LISTEN to a storyteller telling
the story. New stories will appear each month, so check
back.
Your Turn:
Do you know a traditional folktale or story from your
home country? Make a few notes about the story, and then
tell the story to your classmates.
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-Today's Idiom -
if you can't lick them, join them
if you can't lick them, join them - proverb - If you cannot
defeat an opponent or get him to change his attitude, plans,
or ways of doing things, the best thing to do is to change
your ideas, plans, etc.
"The small car manufacturers are winning over the big car makers,"
the president of an American car factory said. "If we want to stay
in business, we must do as they do. In other words, since we can't
lick them, we may as well join them."
Researh the origin of of this idiom at the following link.
http://www.towerofenglish.com/MorelandCHaveOrigins.html
Get more idioms at John's ESL Community
http://www.johnsesl.com/cgi-bin/hints.pl
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- Today's Printable Worksheet-
Today's printable worksheet deals with the order in
which adjectives should be written when there is more
than one adjective in a sentence.
The worksheet is at
http://www.johnsesl.com/printables/worksheets/adjwordorder.shtml
The answer key is at
http://www.johnsesl.com/printables/worksheets/adjwordorderkey.shtml
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- Today's Joke-
Make a Sentence
Children were called upon in a classroom to make sentences
with words chosen by the teacher. The teacher smiled when
Jack raised his hand to participate. She gave him the words
'defeat,' 'deduct,' 'defense,' and 'detail.' Jack stood
seriously for a while with all eyes focused on him awaiting
his reply:
Defeat of deduct went over defense before detail!
More jokes and humor at http://www.lolhumor.com/
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- Riddle of the Day -
There is a common English word that is nine letters long.
Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an
English word - from nine letters right down to a single
letter. What is the original word, and what are the words
that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
Click the following link to learn the answer.
http://www.lolhumor.com/getcontent.php?catid=33&cat=Words%20and%20Letters&id=4375&ans=yes
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for our newsletter. So, please send your feedback to
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October 17, 2004
#425
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