|
Bike (A Chinese boy�s father sells enough rice to buy a bike for his son)
A boy�s father carries two big bags of rice to a distant market every day to sell to pay of debts. Then he puts six bags on a cart and pulls it to market, not using the family�s water buffalo because it would make the animal too tired. In the end, the boy�s father buys his son a new red bike, which he learns to ride.
Suggestions for teacher: ask...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 7
|
|
Billy and Sammy
I took the well-known Shirley Jackson short story CHARLES and simplified and changed it to produce this story. Suggestions teaching: Ask students to read the story outside class. In class, pair the students and ask them retell the story. Then repair the students and give them the questions. After ten minutes, repair the students again, and ask them...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
|
|
WRONG CHOICES: Not Learning English
Ask students to read this outside class. In class, pair students and ask them to retell the contents. Next, give the students a new partner, then give them the questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 27
|
|
Hit-and-Run Tragedy in China
Have students read the text outside class. In class, take text from students, pair the students, and then ask them to retell the text. After about 10 minutes, re-pair the students, and give the questions. Allow plenty of time for students� comments. My second year English majors had plenty to say about the topic.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 1
|
|
Electricity Comes to a Village in China--Power Changes
An intermediate level reading particularly appropriate for Chinese learners of English. Ask students to read the text, then put the students in pairs, and give them the questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 6
|
|
BLACKY--The Runaway Water Buffalo
Written by the same student who wrote ESCAPE, this story describes the family�s water buffalo and her eventual return, but not before the family consults the writer�s deceased grandmother.
Students should prepare the text before class and then ask and answer questions in class in pairs.
My second year English majors had a lot to say about t...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
|
|
Is Lili Happy? (elementary reading with questions)
As students to read the text. Then pair students and give them the questions. Works great for students with limited oral English ability as you strive to strengthen their speaking fluency.
Level: elementary
Age: 8-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 2
|
|
Question Worksheet: Kung-Fu Panda
Ask students to read the text. Next put the students in pairs then hand out the questions. Works great for Chinese college students.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
|
|
Students� Bad Habits
Put the students in pairs and ask them to ask and answer the questions. This should be done after they have had time to read and digest the text.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 5
|
|
ESCAPE: CHRONICLES OF MODERN CHINESE CHILDHOOD
ESCAPE was written by one of my students as part of a large autobiographical exercise. It is at a lower intermediate level and should be good material for students anywhere in the world. The questions at the end are designed to encourage oral fluency (students should be put in pairs). There are questions specific to the story and also questions abo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 7-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 4
|
