ESL Reading Articles: Levels B1 and B2, Intermediate Reading Comprehension Passages and Cloze Grammar Worksheets, Printable Workbook plus Google Slides and PowerPoint

Description

What’s Included

• Printable workbook PDF: a teacher page with the coverage map and a what each level means table, one page for each of the 6 grammar articles, two pages for each of the 6 reading articles, and a full answer key
• 6 cloze grammar articles, 3 at B1 with 12 open gaps plus 5 sentences to correct, and 3 at B2 with 14 open gaps plus 4 sentence transformations, 78 gaps and 27 correction lines in total
• A short write about you task at the end of every grammar page, so the lesson ends in production and not only in recognition
• 6 reading articles, 3 at B1 and 3 at B2, with 72 comprehension questions in total: main idea, specific detail, cause and effect, vocabulary in context, inference, writer’s purpose and writer’s attitude
• Answer deck in Google Slides or PowerPoint: the same articles on screen with the same numbered gaps, one answer per click in green, a how to use this deck slide, a clickable contents page and a Contents button on every slide
• Answer key with the alternative answers that are also worth accepting, including the corrected sentences
• Color and ink-saver black and white, US Letter and A4

Written At the Level, Not Cut Down

Every article was written to its CEFR band from the first word. The B1 texts work with present perfect, past continuous, used to, first conditional, should and must, relative clauses, and linkers such as however, although and while. The B2 texts add past perfect, the passive, second and third conditionals, reported speech and participle clauses, with nevertheless, in addition and despite. No article in here is a C1 text with the hard words taken out, which is why the grammar the gaps test is the grammar students are ready for.

What the Articles Are About

Grammar articles: The Saturday Repair Cafe, Why Teenagers Need More Sleep, The Return of the Night Train, Letting the City Grow Wild, The Four Day Week Experiment and Who Wrote This. Reading articles: The Door a Smell Opens, Why Batteries Get Tired, The Food We Never Eat, Let the School Field Grow, The Myth of the Multitasking Student and Who Chooses What You Watch. Science, technology, media and the environment, classroom safe and written to be understood anywhere in the world.

Marking Together on Screen

The deck is built for the moment after students have written on paper. Open the article in Present mode and click. Gap one fills in, in green. Click again for gap two. The corrected sentences appear the same way, with the alternatives that are also fine shown underneath. Students mark their own sheet as you go, and the Contents button on every slide takes you back to the article list.

Works On

Windows, Mac, and Chromebooks. Print the PDFs, project the slides, or do both. No student devices or logins required.

Important

Play the deck in Slideshow (Present) mode so the click through answers and the contents links work. The printable workbook is the same in the Google Slides and the PowerPoint route, so you only choose how you want to show the answers.

Help

Email me any time with questions or requests. Thank you for supporting a small teacher-run shop.

Carolin

carolin@classroomreview.games