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SMART CITIES: Singapore, city of the future (with answers)
LISTENING COMPREHENSION through video.
Watch the three-minute video. Revise and check its content through questions, matching and gap filling activities which will also help vocabulary acquisition. Debate.
Resource for the two gap filling exercises: the complete one-hour video "City of the Future: Singapore" � Full Episode | National Geographi...
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 48
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VIDEO LISTENING: Julius Caesar crossing the Rhine (55BC)
VIDEO to enjoy history and admire the feat of constructing such a bridge to have it dismantled on retreating back to Gaul. The Germanic tribes on the other side were awed, and outnumbering the Romans by ten to one, still decided to retreat.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 18
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BBC 6-minute English CORONAVIRUS VERSUS other pandemics
2 exercises on BBC listening and two short reading extracts from news with exercise focusing on vocabulary and text structure.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 41
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Marks and Spencers coping with the pandemic
The Guardian International Edition, Friday, 8th January 2021.Text with Reading comprehension exercises.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 27
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Gentrification: Detroit�s sacrifice for economic recovery
Worksheet accompanying a video which deals with Detroit�s tale of two cities. Very interesting how new communities are thriving in the city, but social agents remind us we should never forget about the past, and diversity means moving beyond tolerance.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 24
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G7 and fashion houses join forces to make clothes more sustainable
Shortened article from The International edition of The Guardian (Wed 21 August, 2019)with reading comprehension questions and vocabulary exercises. This topic is a must with today�s teenagers and adults.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 34
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The sharing economy
They see and listen to the videos (easy to understand and with subtitles in English) and then answer the comprehension questions, some of them open to debate.
Level: intermediate
Age: 17-100
Type:
Downloads: 21
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LISTENING ACTIVITIES: bbc 6 minute English Cities of the Future
Listening practice with comprehension exercises and vocabulary. The listening presents issues for further discussion.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 36
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Stop �super-cool� e-cigarette from taking off among kids, UK told
Reading comprehension with exercises. Newspaper article dealing with the controversy generated in the UK by the release of the new e-cigarette Juul, which has become popular among kids through social media, when it was intended to help adult smokers to cut down on nicotine intake.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: article
Downloads: 41
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LISTENING BBC 6 minute English Gun control without guns
Listening with exercises which can be used to get students involved in a debate about the use of weapons and how it could be controlled.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 49
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