Serious Fun in English is primarily written as a supplementary English skills workbook filled with short, student-centred activities which focus on learning core skills and using vocab, language and punctuation skills as well as activities which draw upon comprehension skills.

Sections focus on particular skills and has a wide range of activities: puzzles, spelling activities, word finds, punctuation activities, crosswords and dictionary skills as well as opportunities for original art and original stories via scaffolding. The level of difficulty of the tasks range from very simple/straightforward to challenging/extension. A lot of the vocab used in the tasks comes from the first 1000 words of the Academic Word list.

Students can work through the book on their own, via set class work but the book can also be used as in-class study as there is scope for pair and group work.