This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Wild Animals as Pets’, features a rough draft of a persuasive text about the dangers of people keeping dangerous or exotic animals as pets. It encourages students to identify spelling, capitalisation, punctuation, and usage errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Wishes and Dreams’, features a narrative text about two boys dreaming of becoming famous football players. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about vocabulary, detail, sequence, making an inference, drawing a conclusion, theme, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This meaning in text exemplar, ‘Words with Many Meanings’ provides a model of a completed meaning in text worksheet. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages them to look critically at words in order to ascertain their particular meaning in context.