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PASSIONS AND COLORED SLEEVES (A Novel from Northwestern China)
PASSIONS AND COLORED SLEEVES is an open access novel about northwestern China that follows one extended family from about 1899 to one hundred years later.
This novel may be accessed below:
http://tibetanplateau.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Passions+and+Colored+Sleeves
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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Reading, listening, speaking exercises about the New Yorker story THATAWAY
Discussion questions for pair or small group work about Thomas Francis McGuane III�s short story THATAWAY, first published in 2024 in THE NEW YORKER. Students should be divided into small groups or pairs and asked to discuss answers to these questions. The story references US culture and historical personalities the teacher can consider introduci...
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 5
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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
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THE UMBREALLA MAN: questions about the short story by Roald Dahl
Questions about THE UMBRELLA MAN by Roald Dahl. It compliments the material on this site that can be found using the link below.
http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=395350#thetop
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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OXFORD PROGRESSIVE READER (Book 1): To Build A Fire
Here are 20+ questions from the OXFORD PROGRESSIVE READER (Book 1) To Build a Fire. These questions may be dictated or given to students to write answers to. They can also be rearranged into odd and even questions and then the students arranged in pairs with one student receiving odd questions and the other pair member receiving the even questions....
Level: elementary
Age: 12-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 4
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THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN EGGS (Oxford Progressive Reader Level 1)
Questions that I made for this story from Book 1 of Oxford Progressive Readers.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 5
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THE ELEPHANT VANISHES, Discussion questions for a Haruki Murakami short story.
Discussion questions for the short story: THE ELEPHANT VANISHES by Haruki Murakami (published in THE NEW YORKER, November 10, 1991). The teacher assigns students the story (search on the Internet for a copy) to read. In class, students are divided into pairs and given these questions to ask and answer. Toward the end of class, individual students a...
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 4
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Go West! Chinese College Grads! and Young Chinese Grads Do Business
This worked well with my second year college English majors. Ask students to prepare before class; pick up the text in class at the beginning of class; pair students and give them 10 minutes to retell/ repeat the contents of the passage; pair students with a new partner and give them the questions--one person gets the odd questions and one person g...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 8
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THE TROUBADOUR level 1 Penguin Reader: 97 questions
Here are 97 questions for the Penguin level 1 short story THE TROUBADOUR. These questions can be given to students as homework. During class, they can be dictated. They can also be divided into parts, and students ask and answer.
This story is in the reader THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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Billy Elliot (graded reader) - comprehension questions
These comprehension questions should be given to students in pairs for them to ask and answer. It helps them recycle the vocabulary and ideas in the story.
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 9
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