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A new way to fight COVID
This is a worksheet based around an article in The Guardian "Brazilian politician�s cunning plan to fight Covid: spray hand gel from planes".
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
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Downloads: 24
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Cash for the winner, the loser for dinner
This worksheet is based around a recent article about cockfighting in East Timor / Timor Leste.
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 9
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Blowhole Energy
Technology that harnesses wave energy through a �blowhole� is being tested at a remote Tasmanian island. This is a recent news article about that, with a worksheet to test vocabulary and comprehension.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type:
Downloads: 7
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Can We Break the Plastic Wave?
Things are not looking so great. The amount of plastic ending up in the ocean is going up not down. This worksheet has a vocabulary exercise and a comprehension exercise centred around an article summarising the recent study by the University of Oxford, the University of Leeds, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Common Seas.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
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Downloads: 31
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National Trust ditches plastic for paper in it�s membership cards
A news item about one of the steps that the UK�s National Trust are taking to reduce their use of plastic.
The worksheet includes comprehension questions and answers.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type:
Downloads: 11
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I gave it all up... to live off the land
The article is from The Guardian about a woman who gave up life in the city to live off the land with her boyfriend. There are questions to test vocabulary and comprehension. Answers are included.
Level: advanced
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 21
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Rocky Mountain Treasure
Forrest Fenn is a millionaire who hid a treasure chest in the Rocky Mountains.
�It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than 10 years ago,� Fenn said in a statement on his that still did not reveal the exact location.
This worksheet has an arti...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 18
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Map the Miner
A short reading exercise about a statue in Kapunda, South Australia.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 6
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The burkini raises debate in Egypt
I�ve taken an extract from a recent news article about a woman who was berated by other Muslim women for wearing a burkini at the swimming pool of a resort in Egypt. As is usual with my worksheets, I�ve included a vocabulary exercise and a comprehension exercise. I hope this is useful to someone!
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type:
Downloads: 16
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ReachBot and the Caves of Mars
This worksheet is based around a CNN article from 2 weeks ago, about a robot that is being developed to search for life in Martian caves.
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type:
Downloads: 10
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