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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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Ships and Climate Change
This is from an article in The Conversation today about container ships and their impact on the climate. There�s some vocabulary to match with definitions (mostly idioms) and a few questions to test comprehension. I hope the worksheet is useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 29
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Human rights activist �forced to flee DRC� over child cobalt mining lawsuit
This worksheet references an article from the Guardian about an activist who helped with a lawsuit against tech companies alleging child exploitation in cobalt mining.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
Downloads: 27
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Toy Pianos
I�ve made a worksheet to accompany an extract from a recent article "How toy pianos went from child�s play into classical concert halls".
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 8
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Texas Renaissance Festival 2020
The Texas Renaissance Festival started in 1974 on the location of an old strip mining site. The festival claims to be North America�s largest Renaissance theme park. In 2020, the festival has had to make some changes, due to COVID 19.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type:
Downloads: 9
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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
Type:
Downloads: 21
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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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Student Climate Strikes in Australia
On the 25th of September thousands of school students across Australia took part in protests. They did this because they are worried about the future; they want politicians to take real and immediate action toward renewables, rather than fossil fuels. The movement is called School Strike 4 Climate Australia (SS4C) but it�s part of a global moveme...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 17
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Lonely - Joel Corry
This should hopefully be a quick and fun �fill the gap� activity, possibly useful as a warmer.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 8
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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
Type:
Downloads: 21
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