ESL Reading Articles: Level C1, Advanced Academic 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 3 grammar articles, two or three pages for each of the 3 reading articles, and a full answer key
• 3 cloze grammar articles at C1 with 15 open gaps each, 45 gaps in total, on dependent prepositions, verb and noun collocation, discourse markers of contrast, consequence and concession, hedging language, cleft sentences and fixed prepositional phrases
• 4 subtle error correction lines on each grammar page, 12 in total, plus a short writing task
• 3 academic reading articles at C1 with 8 questions each, 24 in total: argument, inference, writer’s purpose, vocabulary in context 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
• Color and ink-saver black and white, US Letter and A4

Written At the Level, Not Cut Down

Every article was written at C1 from the first word, in an abstract and academic register: perfect aspects, inversion, cleft sentences, nominalization, hedging and complex noun phrases, with idiom and collocation carrying real weight. Each text runs to about 340 to 390 words, long enough that a student has to hold an argument in their head rather than scan for one fact.

What the Articles Are About

Grammar articles: The Price of Your Attention, on the economics of attention, The Shape of a Street, on how cities shape behavior, and How Words Change Their Minds, on language change. Reading articles: Machines That Decide, on the ethics of automation, The Archive That Rewrites Itself, on memory and testimony, and The Tyranny of the Measurable, on performance targets in institutions. Serious adult topics, 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 error lines appear the same way, with the alternatives that are also fine shown underneath, which at C1 is often the most useful part of the lesson. The contents page links to every article and the Contents button on every slide brings you back.

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