This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores how climate change contributes to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, hurricanes, floods, and droughts, and what their implications are for ecosystems and human societies. This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a multiple choice exercise a crossword a definitions match This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework or used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

Celebrate Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with this interactive Trivia Quiz for the classroom. This PPT quiz contains 20 questions and answers about the achievements, contributions, and challenges of women throughout history and across the world. It’s a perfect way to test your students’ general knowledge and teach them something new while having fun. You can play this quiz individually or in teams, and keep track of your score. This quiz is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners and for Grades 9-12th as well as higher or adult education. This PPT can be used as a warm-up, a break, or a wrap-up activity on Women’s Day or during Women’s History Month (March).

This reading comprehension worksheet explores the rise, history and downfall of the Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR. This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a definitions match a multiple choice exercise a crossword This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework, or used for vocabulary-building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

Mardi Gras remains one of the most quintessential celebrations associated with New Orleans culture. However, Mardi Gras (also referred to as Carnival) has evolved significantly over the years, both in New Orleans and other destinations across the globe that celebrate their own version of the holiday. This Reading Comprehension handout explores the history of Mardi Gras. This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a multiple choice exercise a crossword a definitions match This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework or used to for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 5 Answer key included

Extreme weather events - including powerful heat waves and devastating floods - are now sadly our new normal. In fact, the World Meteorological Organisation has repeatedly warned that due to climate change, extreme weather events are not only here to stay, but they will also become increasingly worse. This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the top causes of climate change and why extreme weather events are now the new normal. This activity is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a multiple choice exercise a crossword a definitions match This resource can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework or used to for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the overpopulation problem and its effects on the economy and the environment. The text analyses the effects of overpopulation, future projections and possible solutions and is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions a multiple choice exercise a crossword a fill in the gaps text on “Intensive Farming” This can be used as a mini-lesson, assigned for homework or used to for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 6 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it’s 100 year old history, the latest escalations and the possibility of holding successful peace talks After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: -comprehension questions a definition match a true or false exercise a multiple choice exercise a fill in the gaps text on the Hamas The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 6 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher intermediate to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores inequality in its various forms and how it creates a complex mix of internal and external challenges that will continue to grow over the next twenty-five years. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: -comprehension questions -a definitions match -a multiple choice exercise -a crossword -a fill-in-the gaps exercise This worksheet can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included. Total number of pages: 7

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text focuses on the effect of social media on body image and mental health and explores ways of using social media responsibly. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: -comprehension questions -multiple choice exercises -a crossword -a fill in the blanks exercise The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 8 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher intermediate to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores what is the confirmation bias and gives lists debiasing techniques that can be used to make better informed decisions. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: -comprehension questions -a multiple choice exercise -a crossword This worksheet can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included. Total number of pages: 6

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the emergence and history of Juneteenth - the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865. On June 19th the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. The celebration of June 19th was coined “Juneteenth” and grew with more participation from descendants. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a titles match, a True or False Exercise, a definition match,a word search, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. An ideal activity for June 19th or during Black History month. (celebrated in February in the United States and Canada, and in October for the Netherlands & the United Kingdom) Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the civil rights movement - a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The text recounts the most important events that transpired during the 50s and 60s from the Jim Crow segregation lawsto Bloody Sunday and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a fill-in the missing titles exercise , comprehension questions, a definition match, multiple choice exercises and a crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 7 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores whether protesting and/or rioting can succeed in bringing about social change. From the 2020 George Floyd protests back to Ghandi’s peaceful opposition to British Imperial Rule the text gives an account of the social reforms achieved by violent and non-violent protests and why it is important to focus on the cause of the protests in order to stop social injustice. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definition match, multiple choice exercises, a crossword and a fill-in-the-gaps exercise. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. Total number of pages: 9 Answer key included

This Reading Comprehension handout is best suited for upper elementary to higher intermediate ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores some of the strangest modern-day Christmas traditions around the world. After carefully reading the text the students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: a titles match, True or False, a multiple choice exercise and a fun crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included. Number of pages: 5