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Reading
Before you use the materials on this pages,
check the Level 1 Curriculum planner or
the Level 2
curriculum planner.
New! Photo Stories!
Easy
- The CDLP site will help you with very simple stories
http://www.cdlponline.org.
Pick a topic (Nature, Family, etc).
Use this worksheet and calendar by Mary Berguin to record your progress in doing dozens of readings. Some have audio or video.
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Vermont Readings - graded easy readings.
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Famous Deaf people: short graded readings
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/
englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html
- Two interesting readings: Mercury - a journey to the planet, and Around the World in 80 days. Interactive readings from the Guardian.
- Mercury - Journey to the Planet: Exercise 1
- Mercury - Journey to the Planet: Exercise 2
- Around the world in 80 hours
- From ESL-Lounge.com, three reading exercises out of many on the site. Online grading.
More Advanced
- The very highly recommended site: Breaking News English.com.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ New articles, listening and
readings every day. Recommended
- UOL.com - an excellent site for HD reading, originally for Portuguese speakers. See
the long list of topics oy the right-hand side, under Arquivo/Stories. Also
some audio.
http://www2.uol.com.br/speakup/
stories_b/199_coffee.shtml
- Literacy Net: Short
graded stories on education, business, and technology
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SelfAcess.com
- (Recommended!) a great site for
intermediate level reading. No password required in the college.
- Illiteracy gapfill
exercise
- Six short readings about science and technology, from Azade Johnson. They are in Acrobat (*.pdf) and/or Microsoft Word format - right-click and download to your computer.
- Rat Brain Cells Paint Pictures Thousands of Miles Away | Acrobat | Microsoft Word
- Mobile Phones - Good for your Memory? | Acrobat | Microsoft Word |
- Robots in Space | Acrobat | Microsoft Word |
- Plants on the Warpath Acrobat | Acrobat | Microsoft Word |
- Dust in Space | Acrobat | Microsoft Word |
- Miniature Motors | Acrobat | Microsoft Word |
- An article from National Geographic on Dust in Space. Open
the two files (Dust1.pdf, Dust2.pdf)
or download in Word (right-click and save target as -coming
soon.) (Same article
in Microsoft Word).
- Four fact sheets with pictures about current problems -
acid rain,
air pollution,
greenhouse gases, and
population. (Acrobat
*.pdf files - about 1 Mb each)
- Abu Dhabi's Old Souq.
Vocabulary Lookup - read the definitions and find the
words in the article.
Acrobat *.pdf
Word
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Seven Common Sports Injuries.
Scanning exercise - read about the top sports injuries and
complete the table. Acrobat *.pdf
Word
new!
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Emirates Palace
Hotel, Abu Dhabi. The newest and most expensive hotel in the
capital of the UAE. With questions.
Acrobat *.pdf
Word
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Ras Al Khaimah Women's College: links for Readings (online and
print versions)
http://rkw.hct.ac.ae/ilc/ex/. You can also find more readings
at the Ras Al Khaimah Independent Learning Center pages
http://rkw.hct.ac.ae/ilc
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Female Afghan Television
Host Pays With Her Life: Gapfill reading
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Sodoku Puzzle Craze Hits
Britain: Reading, with something for you to do in class!
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Reading about Petroglyphs (rock carvings) in the UAE, from Gulf
News. No questions yet. Adobe
Acrobat (recommended)
MS Word
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New York Times reading about how the benefits of India's growing
economy are finally being felt by the poor. Acrobat Word
- Reading Tips: Prepare for Reading Tests in HD Level 1. Worksheet from TJ Everest. Microsoft Word (67 kb). And a more advanced worksheet for HD Level 2 (64 kb). New!
Scanning Exercises
Here is a scanning exercise about Lebanon.
Here are two exercises using letters that will help with scanning and with matching headings to paragraphs
- Exercise 1: British newspapers. Match the 13 letters
to the headlines.
Download Page 1, Page 2 and Instructions (Adobe *.pdf files) - Exercise 2: US newspapers. Match the 17 letters to the
headlines.
Download Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, and Instructions (Adobe *.pdf files)
Tips on Reading
Here are tips on reading newspaper articles and texts. (From IATEFL Learner Independence Worksheets - also downloadable in Word)
Crosswords
Click for a page of crossword puzzles related to your course.
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