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Cash for the winner, the loser for dinner
This worksheet is based around a recent article about cockfighting in East Timor / Timor Leste.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
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For most Victorian students, term two begins at home due to coronavirus restrictions.
This is based on an ABC article about Victorian schools. Students have been told to stay home if they can, which means schools still need to be open, to some level.
Level: intermediate
Age: 11-17
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Downloads: 7
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Tasmania entices winter tourists with �odd jobs� offer
The BBC published a news story about Tourism Tasmania�s campaign to entice winter tourists with an �odd jobs� offer. I�ve included a vocabulary and comprehension exercise as well as asking the student to write 50 words on the job they�d choose and why they chose it.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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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
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Downloads: 20
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Cobargo
This small town and it�s community was hit hard by the recent bushfires in Australia. This is a short article about some local businesses with some questions to check comprehension. Most of the vocabulary is at an intermediate level. I�ve provided definitions for 5 or 6 words that students may be unfamiliar with.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 4
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Wellington Web Quest
I have based this web quest around WellingtonNZ�s "Top 10 Wellington must-dos". In the first part, students must look up addresses and entry prices for attractions like the zoo, the museum and the cable car. If that was too easy, the second part requires more digging to find the answers :) If your students like to travel (or dreaming about it, he...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 11
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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
Type:
Downloads: 22
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Map the Miner
A short reading exercise about a statue in Kapunda, South Australia.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type:
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More Masks than Jellyfish?!
This worksheet has two vocabulary exercises and two comprehension exercises, based around a CNN article �Conservationists warn Covid waste may result in �more masks than jellyfish� in the sea�. And not just the boring, out-of-the-way beaches.. the famous ones of the Cote d�Azur! Not cool.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 9
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Goat Milk: the Ethical Alternative?
Animals were subjected to a string of brutal attacks at a farm that sells goats� milk to Tesco, Sainsbury�s, Waitrose and other supermarkets, footage from hidden cameras has recently revealed. This worksheet accompanies the video and commentary about this, and requires students to complete exercises in comprehension and vocabulary.
NB: the vide...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
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Downloads: 7
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