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Diwali - Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the traditions, legends and cultural practices around Diwali. The text also describes how the Festival if Lights is celebrated around the world.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, gap filling exercises and a fun word search. The text can also be used for vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
Matilda - by Roald Dahl - Summary Reading & Comprehension Exercises
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text is a summary/ short story based on Roald Dahl’s famous children’s story “Matilda”. Matilda recounts the story of a young bright girl who forms a beautiful relationship wiith her primary school teacher. Once Matilda discovers that she is telekinetic, there’s virtually nothing that can stop her from haunting the horrid Miss Trunchbull out of the school!
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a character match, a crossword, and True or False exercises and a fun word-search. The text can be used for AQA vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A crossword key is included.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - The Story - Reading Comprehension Worksheet
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text narrates the story of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" based on William Shakespeare's famous comedy.
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" text on Shakespeare's life and a character match exercise. The handout also includes some questions/ speaking prompts. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
An Inspector Calls – The Story by J. B. Priestley - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text gives a summary of J. B. Priestley's play "An Inspector Calls" that explores love, morals and infidelity in the materialistic culture of the 1910s.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a gap filling exercise and a character match exercise. After completeing the exercises, students are given questions on materialism to answer in class. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. Please note that a full answer key is included.
Children Refugees - 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 harsh reality of children refugees and exposes the shortfalls in funding, aid and support for war-stricken children.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a crossword and engage in an in-class discussion. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
Ancient Greece and the Origins of Theater - Reading Comprehension Text
Greek theater had its beginnings in various religious festivals throughout the Greek world honoring the Greek gods. These festivals featured the performance of songs and dances by groups of men and boys called a chorus. Over time, these performances came to include three actors who portrayed individual characters in a story. By the 6th Century BCE, the Greeks were creating special places called theaters, where people could attend such performances.
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the history of theater in ancient Greece.
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
A Brief History of Tattoos - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text explores the origins of tattoos and their development as an early art form in12,000 B.C. to modern day tatoooing.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises and a fun word search. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGSCE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
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
The Life and Work of Charles Darwin - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the life and work of the great naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False exercises and a definitions match. The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE and TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. A full Answer Key is included.
Past Simple: Regular & Irregular Verbs (Affirmative, Interrogative, Negative)
This handout is dedicated to teaching the Past Simple Tense to higher elementary-intermediate level ESL learners. The handout includes gap filling exercises, question formation and sentence transformation exercises, using regular and irregular verbs.
The Cold War - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the major historical events that occurred during the Cold War.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a titles match, comprehension questions, gap filling, definition match and True or False exercises and a fun crossword. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
A full answer key is included.
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Roald Dahl's Best Stories & Books - Summaries & Reading Comprehension Worksheets (SAVE 50%)
This bundle includes different Reading Comprehension Worksheets based on Roald Dahl’s most popular works. These handouts provide summaries and a set of reading comprehension exercises suitable for upper-intermediate to advanced ESL learners.
After carefully reading each story/text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, gap filling exercises, definition matching exercises, crosswords, word searches and engage in in-depth class discussions on topics around the texts
The History of Mother's Day - Reading Comprehension Text
This handout explores the history of Mother's Day and the Contribution of Anna Jarvis to the establishment of the day as a national holiday. The worksheet includes comprehension questions and a true or false exercise. Can be used as an in class exercise or assigned for homework. Ideally, should be taught on or near Mother's Day.
Lord of the Flies - by William Golding - GCSE Reading Comprehension / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners. The text gives a summary of William Golding ’s novel “Lord of the Flies”.
After carefully reading the summary of the novel, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: True or False exercises, ca fill in the gaps, a character match, a fill in the gaps exercise and a fun crossword . The vocabulary used in the text is rather advanced and can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL or IELTS vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework. A full answer key is included.
The Witches -by Roald Dahl - Reading & Comprehension Exercises
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This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text is a summary/ short story based on Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”.
The “Boy” listens closely to his Grandmamma’s stories about the horrid witches, but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself…
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a character match, a crossword, and True or False exercises, a multiple choice exercise and a fill in the gaps. The text can be used for vocabulary building purposes. This handout can be completed in class or assigned for homework.
The Aztec Civilization - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text #GoogleExpeditions
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the origin and history of the Aztec civilization from their first settlement in Tenochtitlan to their fall by the Spaniard colonizers in 1519.
After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a crossword, fill in the gaps, True or False exercises 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.
Past Simple - Regular Verbs Worksheet - Affirmative, Interrogative, Negative
This handout is dedicated to teaching the basic formation of Past Simple to beginner ESL students. There are gap filling exercises, question formation and sentence transformation exercises all using regular verbs in the Past Simple tense.
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
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.
The Problem with Fast Fashion- Reading Comprehension Text
Fast fashion describes cheap, stylish, mass-produced clothes that have a huge impact on the environment.
This Reading Comprehension / Informational Text explores the effects of fast fashion.
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: 8
Answer key included