Intermediate to Advanced Reading Worksheets (Continued)


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Title
Public Speaking
Target Structure
Reading, Vocabulary & Disussion
Level
Upper Intermediate to Advanced
Time
60 minutes
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Description
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.


 


 

Title
Homework
Target Structure
Reading, Vocabulary & Disussion
Level
Upper Intermediate / Advanced
Time
60 minutes
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Description
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.

 


 

Title
If I won the lottery...
Target Structure
The Second Conditional
Level
Intermediate and above
Time
60 minutes
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Description
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.

 


 

Title
Could you become a vegetarian?
Target Structure
Debating / Expressing Opinions
Level
Intermediate and above
Time
60 + minutes
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Description
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.

 


 

Title
Truck or Lorry
Target Structure
Reading, Vocabulary & Discussion
Level
Upper Intermediate to Adanced
Time
90 minutes
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Description
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'.


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