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The worst man-made disasters in history - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text enumerates the greatest man-made disasters in the history of human kind.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, a title match, comprehension questions and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.
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The Problem with Consumerism - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher intermediate to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.
The text explores what is the effects of consumerism on our environment, health and happiness.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including:
-True and False Exercises
-comprehension questions
-a definitions match
-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: 7
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What Really Happened at Fukushima? - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the events that occurred before and after the 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a true or false exercise, a fill in the gaps exercise, an in class discussion and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included. Ideally this handout can be used with a #Google Expedition virtual reality trip.
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Why Norway Is on Its Way to a Fully Sustainable Future - Reading Comprehension Text / Informational
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores Norway’s environmental initiatives including its hydro-power stations, solar power technologies, electric car policies, thrift and reuse culture, plogging, seed vault and successful recycling / pant system
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise and a fun crossword.
The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.
Total number of pages: 7
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Why is Africa building a Great Green Wall? - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, an in class discussion and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.
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De-Extinction: Can we resurrect the extinct? - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the different methods of de-extinction and the impact it can have on the environment.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, a definitions match and a fun crossword. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.
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Black History: A History of Juneteenth - Reading Comprehension Text
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
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A Brief History of the British Empire, Colonisation & Slave Trade - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the history of the British Empire, from the first expeditions to the scramble for Africa and the later de-colonisation process after the end of WWII.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a fill-in-the-gaps exercise, and a fun crossword . The text can also be used for IGCSE or TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included
Total number of pages: 8
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The Life and Work of Nelson Mandela - Black History Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of social rights activist, politician and philanthropist Nelson Mandela - who became South Africa’s first Black president from 1994 to 1999. After becoming involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: title match exercises, comprehension questions, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included,
Total number of pages: 7
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The History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - Reading Comprehension - Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text explores the history of the Transatlantic Slave trade and the effects it had on the development of the African continent.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match and a fun crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
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The Tulsa Race Massacre - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.
The text explores the events that led up to the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, during which up to 300 black Tulsans were murdered by white residents, and a thriving neighbourhood was burned to the ground. The text also gives an account of the aftermath of the Tulsa Massacre, the segregation of the community, the rise of the KKK, the deleted history records and the search for possible mass graves over a century later.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a definitions match , comprehension questions, multiple choice exercises and a crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes.
Total number of pages: 7
Answer key included
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Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text is suitable for advanced to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.
The text explores modern-day racial discrimination and social injustice issues that led to the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as what kind of social and political reforms are necessary to finally stop discrimination and bring to account groups and individuals responsible for human rights violations.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definition match, multiple choice exercises and a fun crossword. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes.
Total number of pages: 7
Answer key included
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The Life and Work of Dr. Maya Angelou - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of one of the American poet, memoirist, and actress, Maya Angelou.
After carefully reading the text / bio, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a poem, a fill-in-the-gaps exercise and a fun crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
Total number of pages: 9
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Malcolm X Biography - Black History Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of black civil rights activist Malcolm X.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: True or False exercises, comprehension questions, a multiple choice exercise and a crossword. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. A full answer key is included,
Total number of pages: 7
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THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN THE POST–SLAVERY SOUTH - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text gives an account of the fight against the "separate but equal" doctrine in the post-slavery S.America.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including 10 comprehension questions, 10True or False exercises and an in class discussion. This informational tect can also be used for vocabulary building purposes.
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Black History: The Civil Rights Movement - Reading Comprehension Text
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
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African American History - The Rise and Fall of Slavery - Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the rise and fall of the slave trade in the New World during the 18th century.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, gap filling exercises, definition matching and engage in an in class discussion. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
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The Media’s Effect On Body Image - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the effects of the media and social media in particular, on body image.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a title-match exercise and engage in an in-class discussion. The text can be used for IGSCE / TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
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Cyberbullying and Depression - Reading Comprehension Worksheet - Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners. The text discusses cyberbullying and its connection to teenage depression.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions and True or False exercises. The vocabulary used in the texts is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handouts can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
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What is the Danse Macabre? - Reading & Comprehension Exercises
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the concept of Danse Macabre and how it was used throughout history.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, discussion prompts and a fun crossword, a fill in the gaps exercise and a definitions match exercise. The text can be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key included.
Total number of pages: 4