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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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I think you have a meteorite in your bed
A Canadian lady was woken one night recently when a meteroid crashed through her ceiling and landed on her bed.
This worksheet is based around the news article about this.
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 14
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Bletchley Park
A museum in Britain is firing many of their staff due to the economic impact of COVID-19. A short worksheet, with answers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
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Downloads: 17
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No Mullets Allowed
This is a recent news story about a young man who wasn�t allowed to enter an Australian bar because of his hairstyle. It�s fairly easy, as long as you know or can guess a few words of Australian slang :)
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type:
Downloads: 5
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Blowhole Energy
Technology that harnesses wave energy through a �blowhole� is being tested at a remote Tasmanian island. This is a recent news article about that, with a worksheet to test vocabulary and comprehension.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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Imbolc
A worksheet about the pagan festival of Imbolc.
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type:
Downloads: 8
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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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Australia�s Gold Coast
Hayley Andersen and her boyfriend Kyle Hunter are travel bloggers who are based in Australia�s Gold Coast. In this video, they visit and talk about some of their favourite places to visit there. The worksheet has some multiple-choice questions to test comprehension.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type:
Downloads: 12
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No Time to Die
A vocabulary exercise and multiple-choice comprehension exercise to go with an article from The Sunday Post about the latest delays to the release of the James Bond Movie "No Time to Die".
I hope it�s useful!
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 16
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Dealing with Ocean Plastic in South America
A startup is recycling tonnes of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem?
This is an article titled "Ocean plastic was choking Chile�s shores. Now it�s in Patagonia�s hats" from The Guardian last month.
There are some questions to test vocabulary and reading comprehensions. An...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
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Downloads: 31
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