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Wellington Arch
You can use this text as a model to encourage your students to write their own description of a familiar monument, sculpture or place. The text has been adapted from the thriller "The Verdict" by Nick Stone.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 9
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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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Modern Technology: self-driving buses, drones, robots, VR and so forth
Listening comprehension on modern technologies, for the better or worse. Also, there is the report of a minor accident with a self-driving bus in Stockholm.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type:
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Is nuclear power needed as the world transitions to clean energy?
2020 IAEA Forum (International Atomic Energy Agency)
Text, comprehension and vocabulary questions. Debate and opinion sharing. With answers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 19
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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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Ad�lie Penguins in danger
Reading comprehension about environmental concerns. Good for students who are in their second year in highschool. The text is adapted from an article in The Guardian, 13 October 2017.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 16
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Backcountry Bear Basics, DAVE SMITH.
Apart from Reading comprehension, the text provides some opportunities for laughter and debate too, the topics "survival in the wilderness" and "respecting wild life" will engage your students in conversation. I bought this book in Alberta, Canada when visiting Jasper National Park.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 19
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Concerning Hobbits
Text adapted from "The Hobbit" by John Ronald Reuen Tolkien. Vocabulary exercises. Debate on meaning and connotations in the text. Those scruffy, tender hobbits!
Level: intermediate
Age: 17-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 17
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ORAL SKILLS: Sharing a flat, sharing the housework ROLE PLAY
Students have to complain, argue and come to an agreement about sharing the household chores, beholding possible future perspectives of sharing a flat with other students.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 33
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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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