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THE GIFT OF THE MAGI and other stories
These questions are for pair/group work. They are based on THE GIFT OF THE MAGI AND OTHER STORIES,a graded reader at the beginner level.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
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WOULD YOU CHANGE THE RULES? To END � Harari�s UNSTOPPABLE US, volume 2
Yuval Noah Harari�s UNSTOPPABLE US volume 2. These are questions for students to discuss in groups/pairs. The questions cover WOULD YOU CHANGE THE RULES? To END � Harari�s UNSTOPPABLE US, volume 2.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type:
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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
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ALONE (a short story by Li Yiyun): Questions
Li Yiyun is an important Chinese-American writer, especially for foreigners teaching English in China who are challenged in locating English-language materials that students can understand culturally--without having to decode unfamiliar cultural references about the West. Li Yiyun thus provides short stories about China that students will understan...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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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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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
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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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China�s Tu (Monguor) Minority
The Tu are one of China�s fifty-six officially recognized ethnic groups. China�s total Tu or Monguor population is about 240,000. Most Tu live in Qinghai Province and in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province. Most Tu are farmers and also have a few livestock. Today, many Monguor leave their homes to work in cities to do construction wor...
Level: elementary
Age: 14-17
Type: reading
Downloads: 3
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A MAN LIKE HIM (short story by Li Yiyun): Comprehension Questions
This story may be downloaded for free at
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/05/12/080512fi_fiction_li
Li Yiyun is an important contemporary write-about-China. She now lives and teaches in the USA.
These are comprehension questions.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-17
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 3
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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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