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Coronavirus Words and Phrases
There have been several medical/public health terms that are now in common use, and there�s also been some new words introduced. This worksheet has some examples, for students to try and guess the meaning of, using the content. Definitions have been included. Note that some of these words are more commonly used in Australia and New Zealand.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
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Downloads: 31
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The Peregrine Falcon
A short reading about one of the world�s fastest birds with comprehension questions.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 12
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Australian Open 2024
Here are profiles of some of the players playing at the Australian Open year. This can be used to teach and review nationalities, countries and comparatives or to review sport vocabulary.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 5
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Seafood Fraud Happening on a Vast Global Scale
This is the first part of a Guardian Seascape article, in which they analysed 44 studies and found that nearly 40 of 9,000 products from restaurants, markets and fishmongers were mislabelled. There�s a vocabulary matching exercise and a multiple choice exercise to test reading comprehension.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 14
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Zebra - John Butler Trio
The John Butler Trio are an Australian roots/rock band led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler.
This 2003 song has some good examples of opposite words. There�s an exercise to complete the missing words. There are four phrases for students to try and work out the meaning of. Oh and the answers are included!
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
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Downloads: 3
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Weird Things About Australia
I found an article on news.com.au: "American who moved to Australia reveals �weird� things about our country"
If you wanted to, you could perhaps also include her TikTok videos in the lesson, to help with listening as well as reading subskills.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 15
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Right to Repair Laws
There�s debate going on in several countries about laws to allow consumers and repair shops to be able to fix devices and not only the manufacturer. Here�s an excerpt from a recent article about this, with some vocabulary and comprehension questions.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 25
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The Big Apple
The big things of Australia are a loosely related set of large structures, mostly just for tourism. The Big Apple is one of these.
This is a short article, with true/false questions and definition-matching to test comprehension and perhaps expand vocabulary.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
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Downloads: 22
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Mount Kosciuszko
Learn about mainland Australia�s highest mountain! There are some questions to test reading comprehension and answers are included.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 15
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Mindfulness with the Roulettes
The Roulettes are the Royal Australian Air Force�s aerobatic display team. This worksheet is to accompany a YouTube video about how mindfulness can help the pilots, with 4 questions to test their understanding and some definitions to help them.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 9
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