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Reading Worksheets


Reading-Based Worksheets

Handouts Online has a selection of worksheets on topics which are bound to be successful in your classes.

The topics are great for any nationality - your students will love them!

Our reading lessons have a text, vocabulary exercises and discussion questions.

 

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Title: The Pyramids of Egypt
Target Structure: Reading and Discussion
Level: Pre-Intermediate
Time: 45-60 minutes
   
Description: This worksheet makes a great instant lesson for your lower-level students.

There's a quick quiz on the pyramids, followed by a short reading. Your students can then build their vocabulary through an exercise that gets them guessing meaning from context.

The lesson rounds off with discussion questions, so that your class can talk about the pyramids, famous tourist spots in their countries, and where they would like to go in the world.
   
Alternative British English Version
   
     



 
Title: Business Update
Target Structure: Reading and Discussion
Level: Upper Intermediate / Advanced
Time: 60 minutes
   
Description: This worksheet is part of a series of handouts looking at different business-related topics.

This handout looks at tax rises and industrial relations.

Students have cut up strips for two different newspaper articles. They need to separate them and put them in order.

There are also vocabulary-building exercises, with your students learning phrases such as 'curb the deficit', 'rein in public sector pay', 'denounce the rise', 'ballot members' and more.

With lots of discussion questions, this is a great worksheet for advanced-level students who want to be able to talk fluently about the current business climate.
   
Alternative British English Version
   
     



 
Title: Alternative Energy
Target Structure: Theme Lesson - Reading and Discussion
Level: Advanced
Time: 60 minutes
   
Description: How are your students on environmental issues? This two-page worksheet is great for advanced-level students.

This handout provides a balance of activities, including vocabulary building, reading, retelling and discussion questions.

This worksheet has been updated for 2010 with new illustrations and a vocabulary quiz which you can use in the lesson, or the following week.

(Updated May 2010)
     



 
Title: Extreme Weather
Target Structure: Reading and Discussion
Level: Upper Int / Adv
Time: 45 + minutes
   
Description: Newspapers and the TV news often feature stories about extreme weather. However, the language used can be a mystery to many students!

This worksheet has a jigsaw reading, plus collocation / idiom work and discussion questions.

It's great for higher-level students.
   
Alternative British English Version
   
     



 
Title: Alternative Vacations
Target Structure: Reading, Vocabulary and Discussion
Level: Upper Int / Advanced
Time: 60 minutes
   
Description: Are beach holidays all the same? Do your students dream of escaping another tourist trap, and doing something more worthwhile?

This worksheet looks at some alternatives to the standard package tour holiday. How about a wine-tasting course, or learning to take better photographs?

This worksheet has a reading, vocabulary work, role play and discussion.

It's great for higher-level learners.
   
Alternative British English Version
   

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