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The Free Boutique
A short reading, excerpted from a recent news article �It sounds like a little thing but it�s powerful�: the new Sydney boutique where everything is free.
There are multiple choice questions to test comprehension and an exercise for matching words and definitions.
Answers are included!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 21
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An electric car that can do 750 miles per charge?!
A news article about a new super-efficient electric car concept, the Vision EQXX, which will apparently be capable of more than 750 miles of range on a single charge. Let�s see if this becomes reality, and if so, when!
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
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Downloads: 21
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Call to fast-track bike lanes
A recent article from The Guardian about proposals to build more bike lanes in Australia, to take advantage of the recent surge in bike sales during the coronavirus pandemic.
The worksheet includes questions to test comprehension and vocabulary.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 20
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Surviving in Marseille
This worksheet is based on an article about "life after lockdown in resilient Marseille". How are the local restaurants and shops surviving? Answers are included!
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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Proverbs
A multiple choice worksheet, to match the proverbs with their meanings.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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The Company With a $70,000 Minimum Salary
Dan Price is founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, a credit card processing and technology company. In 2015, Price announced that employees would begin receiving a $70,000 minimum annual salary and that he would take a massive cut to his million dollar salary to make that happen. This is a short article about how that has worked out, with vocabulary...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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Indian ballet prodigy in London
The worksheet centres around a recent news article about an Indian dancer Kamal Singh who got a place at the English National Ballet school in London, with the help of two Bollywood stars. There are two exercises provided. One to test vocabulary and another to test comprehension.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 20
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A Fast-Food Restaurant Story
A story from CNN about a lady in Atlanta who saw another customer mistreat a fast-food worker and what she did about it.
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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Dunwich: The British town lost to the sea
Here�s a BBC article and accompanying worksheet about a rediscovered medieval English town that was found under the sea.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 20
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Animal welfare: our good intentions usually fall short. Here are 4 ways to shop responsibly
An article about concerns about animal welfare by Australian shoppers.
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 19
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