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[blunder1983]

In my youth I really enjoyed books, especially the Usborne mystery books. You'd have a page with perhaps one paragraph of writing, where at the end they'd deduce something. You wernt allowed to turn the page until you'd solved the riddle.

Similar to Where's Waldo, but adding in a lateral thinking element.

For example these kids had just gone back in time to the roman days, after an experiment goes wrong. The "baddy" is also thrown back in time too. They notice him and follow down the path. The clue in the picture is you can clearly see he is wearing trainers, something they'd never have in ancient times.

This lateral thinking element strikes me as a GREAT way for the kids to internalise words very quickly. The minimal amount of writing on each page also means they wouldn't be discouraged by a huge block of text (perhaps 1/3rd of the page is text).

However, the books in question are kinda hard. Just not written for ESLers but native speakers. Anyone know of any books like this with a definitive ESL slant?

[Hater Depot]

Heh. I did a lateral thinking exercise when I was teaching the phrase "What went wrong?" I told the kids about a date I'd been on with a girl, but we never had a second date. They had to figure out why and they guessed all kinds of stuff. But we'd had a great time, she was cute, it didn't rain, etc.

Always, just before the closing bell, one kid would go out on a limb and say she was a lesbian. And that kid was right.