Do we at “ETs in R & E” promise you useful things you can do in the classroom with little or no preparation? Yes, we do. And we will deliver again!

Draw a tic-tac-toe pattern on the board, or a large square with nine boxes. It should look kind of like this:

Now your students–in pairs or groups–(and you too, dear, teacher!) will make as many words from these letters as possible. Letters MUST BE consecutive
and may only be used once per word.

What’s a C-test? Well, starting from the second line of the text, you supply the correct letters to complete the words. The last one or two letters of every third
word are missing.