This kids news activity, ‘World Honours Young Activist With Malala Day’ is about Malala Yousafzai and her campaign for the right to an education for girls.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘You Never Can Tell’, features a narrative text about prejudice encountered in a soccer team. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about setting, character, sequence, mood/tone, reasoning, detail, cause and effect, fact/opinion, making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, and the main …More
This article, ‘Danielle Murdoch: Young Adventurer’, profiles a woman planning a solo motorbike trip through 44 countries. Danielle explains why she has chose to make this journey and what she expects the experience to be like.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Young Benjamin Franklin’ asks students to answer questions about a story in which Benjamin Franklin learned an important lesson from his father. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Yuri Gagarin’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This history article, ‘Zola Budd’ features the South African long-distance runner who broke the women’s 5000m world record at just 17, while running in bare feet. It provides factual information about Zola Budd and the international ban imposed on South African athletes during apartheid, along with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms from the …More