All Reading articles – Page 29
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Amazing World of Animals: Introduction and Project Map
An introduction to Carol Read’s Amazing World of Animals project including a comprehensive project map with a detailed view of each lesson.
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Poor Persephone!
A reading worksheet on the Greek myth that explains why there are different seasons during the year. Student exercises focus on comprehension and discussion.
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Charles Dickens
A worksheet about the life of the famous English author Charles Dickens, whose novels include Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist.
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Taking a chance!
Students read an article about the lottery in Britain and the chances of winning it. The exercises focus on comprehension checking and mathematics.
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This restless Earth
Show your students how volcanoes are formed while teaching key subject vocabulary such as magma, lava and crater.
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TOEIC Reading & Listening: Part 7 – Reading comprehension
This lesson helps students improve their reading speeds, to assist them with Part 7 of the reading section in the TOEIC Reading and Listening test.
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ESP Marketing: Market Research
Students are introduced to the topic of market research in this instalment of David Baker's Marketing series.
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Dog owners
This lesson plan provides listening and language exercises for students. It focuses on relationships we have with our pets as well as British culture.
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River action
Show students how ox-bow lakes are formed while teaching them key subject vocabulary such as meander, erosion and alluvium.
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Selections Grade 4: Hurricane Helen
How tidy or messy are your young learners' bedrooms? Talk about this and "actual" hurricanes with this lesson by Adrian Tennant.
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Mount Teide
A worksheet with reading and discussion activities about the volcano on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
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Experiments: Magnetic pennies
A fun Science Museum experiment that gets students thinking about magnets and how they work. The step by step teaching notes and worksheets help teachers and pupils get the most from the experiment and develop language learning skills. The lesson culminates in an open-ended investigation. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s ...
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Experiments: Gas from garbage
This experiment is designed to demonstrate that biomass, especially when stored in warm, damp conditions, produces gas. Step by step teaching notes and worksheets help teachers and pupils get the most from the experiment and develop language learning skills. Pupils are guided through predicting the results and writing up the ...
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Experiments: Energy Pairs
This simple experiment reinforces vocabulary and concepts associated with energy. Students match sentences halves to make statements on energy or ‘energy pairs’. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise and consolidate concepts connected to energy, including renewable and non-renewable sources and how we use energy in our everyday lives. Students ...
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Experiments: Follow the energy path
A simple but revealing experiment in which pupils measure and record the temperature of hot water as it cools down in two different containers: one metallic, one ceramic. Matching and word-order activities help students to revise relevant vocabulary. Students then write a report using the past tense. Key vocabulary and ...
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Experiments: Ear gongs
In this experiment, pupils see how sounds travel much more effectively through materials such as metal and string than through air. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise relevant vocabulary and verbs in the imperative. Students then complete a report using present and past tenses. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s ...
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Experiments: Conductors and insulators
Which materials are good conductors and which are good insulators? This experiment uses polystyrene foam, metal, wood, glass and plastic to explore the properties of conductors and insulators. Step by step teaching notes and student worksheets help teachers and students get the most from the experiment and develop language learning ...
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Experiments: 3D shadows
In this experiment, pupils learn how to produce the illusion of a 3D shadow using two different coloured light sources and colour-filtered glasses. Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise related vocabulary and prepositional phrases. Students then discuss the outcome of the experiment with a partner and write a report ...
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Business Spotlight: Emotional roller coaster
This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight magazine, looks at the personal conflicts two managers faced as they took the most difficult management decisions of their careers.