Reading-based Worksheets

Have your students ever stayed at a five-star hotel? Were they impressed by the level of service, or was it a waste of money?

This worksheet looks at the topic of hotel through an interview with a Hotel GM - the General Manager.

There is a vocabulary matching exercise, followed by a gap-fill reading, idiom work, role-play and discussion.

This worksheet is written for intermediate and advanced-level classes.

This worksheet looks at some common idiomatic language themed around how people met. There is a mix-and-match idiom game which you can either cut up or (if you're short of time) hand out as it is. This is followed by some short readings. The lesson continues with idiom practice and discussion. Expressions covered include: * pluck up the courage * love at first sight * lose touch with someone * a mutual friend * have a crush on someone and more. This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate and advanced-level students.

Are you (or your students) confident when standing up in front of others? Can they deliver a speech or presentation with panache?

This worksheet looks at some ways we can become better public speakers. There is a reading, vocabulary practice and discussion. Expressions covered include:

• to find something nerve-wracking
• to parrot something
• to have someone in stitches
• to relish the prospect of doing something
• ...and much more!

There are exercises to consolidate the language, and your students will have the opportunity to use them in discussion at the end of the lesson.

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate and advanced learners.

This is a lower-level version of our worksheet 'Public Speaking'.

This worksheet looks at some advice on becoming a better public speaker.

Following the lead-in, there is a collocation matching exercise and then a brief gap-fill text.

Expressions studied include:

• give a presentation
• stand up in front of others
• take a deep breath
• fall asleep
• go on a course

Following comprehension questions, there is preposition practice and discussion questions.

This worksheet is written for lower-intermediate classes.

Do you have particularly academic students? Did they do a great deal of homework when they were younger? Do children nowadays have to work much harder than in previous generations?

Taking homework as its theme, this worksheet has a gap-fill reading, collocation practice exercises and discussion.

This worksheet is written for upper-intermediate level students and above.

Conditionals can be tough for students. This worksheet will help build their fluency when talking about unlikely or hypothetical situations.

The lesson begins with four gap-fill vox-pops, focusing on what people would do if they won the lottery. This is followed by vocabulary building, with expressions covered including -

• do something rash
• invest money
• go somewhere exotic ... and more

The lesson has a game where students need to match two halves of sentences and then put them into the second conditional.

The worksheet rounds off with a speaking activity where students must decide how they would spend five million pounds / dollars.

Get your intermediate-level students debating with our worksheet on becoming a vegetarian!

This handout has four short 'vox-pop' readings. Your students will learn vocabulary such as:

cruel

unappetizing

animal welfare

go without (food)

be a pain

This is followed by a true/false comprehension exercise.

The second part of the lesson has students prepare for a debate on the pros and cons of being a vegetarian. There are expressions highlighted for giving opinions - and disagreeing with others.

This worksheet looks at change in language, taking the influence of American English on the UK at its theme.

There is a warm-up exercises, followed by a gap-fill reading. The lesson continues with collocation and vocabulary practice and extended discussion questions.

Your students will learn expressions such as...

• filled to the brim
• bordering on the obsolete
• a catalyst for change

There is also a British / American English quiz - either in the form of a handout, or as cards you can cut up before the lesson.

This worksheet is for upper intermediate and advanced levels.

We also have a lower-level version of this handout called 'British and American English'.