This article, ‘All About Australia: Australia’s Icons’, describes famous Australian icons. It features a colourful map displaying where these icons are located and is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of Australian culture and heritage.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making a Scrapbook’, features a procedural text about creating a photo scrapbook of a family holiday. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about questioning, author’s purpose, persuasion, reasoning, detail, vocabulary, sequence, making an inference, and categorisation. Answer sheet provided with file …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Egyptian Pyramids’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The New Colossus’ asks students to answer questions about an article and a poem, which discuss the ancient Colossus statue and the Statue of Liberty. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This article, ‘World Heritage’, provides information about the World Heritage List. It profiles different destinations on the list and features colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘World Heritage Areas’, describes Australian places that are on the World Heritage List. It profiles different destinations on the list and features colourful and engaging photographs.