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The city of blades
Learn about the ancient city of swords, knives, razor blades and scissors! Answers are included. Please let me know if you�ve any suggestions for improvements.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
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The Company With a $70,000 Minimum Salary
Dan Price is founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, a credit card processing and technology company. In 2015, Price announced that employees would begin receiving a $70,000 minimum annual salary and that he would take a massive cut to his million dollar salary to make that happen. This is a short article about how that has worked out, with vocabulary...
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type:
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The dark side of being a content creator
An article to read about being a content creator, with accompanying worksheet.
Level: advanced
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 1
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The Frankencarrots of Freo
An extract from an article in The Guardian about an Australian prison that �resurrected� its victory garden during a COVID-19 lockdown. The worksheet includes questions to test comprehension and vocabulary.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 17
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The Free Boutique
A short reading, excerpted from a recent news article �It sounds like a little thing but it�s powerful�: the new Sydney boutique where everything is free.
There are multiple choice questions to test comprehension and an exercise for matching words and definitions.
Answers are included!
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 21
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The incredible journey of the Bogong moth
Bogong moths migrate up to a thousand kilometres to find a cool summer home in Australia�s southern alps, where they are a crucial source of food for the local wildlife. Why they outnumber most moths is not known.
Lund University has a short video about some research they�ve done about the moth. This worksheet is written to accompany the vid...
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
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Downloads: 10
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The �Shark� at the University
This worksheet is based on a slightly sensationalised news story about a missing satellite tracking device at a campus of an Australian University.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 10
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The Peregrine Falcon
A short reading about one of the world�s fastest birds with comprehension questions.
Level: elementary
Age: 12-100
Type:
Downloads: 12
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The Route of Hispanic Flavours
Four restaurants in Florida are encouraging people to try traditional Hispanic food as part of Hispanic Heritage Month this year.
There�s a link in this worksheet to a First Coast News video report about the Route of Hispanic Flavours. Students have five questions to answer, to test their understanding of the story.
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Type:
Downloads: 5
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The Simpsons - An Interview with John Swartzelder
Reclusive Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder has given his first interview since leaving the show 18 years ago. I�ve provided vocabulary and comprehension exercises to accompany the article.
Level: advanced
Age: 15-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 12
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