This section provides various reading passages with substantial exercises based on the passage.
The exercises cover vocabulary and the use of expressions in context.
TIMELESS ARTICLES & TEXTS (STILL RELEVANT TODAY)
- A mountain to climb (about mount Kilimanjaro in Africa)
- Running shoes (this history of ‘trainers’)
- Thomas Edison (brief biography)
- Triathlon (information)
For lots more timeless articles relating to health, peace and the environment please click HERE
OLD ARTICLES & TEXTS (BUT MAY STILL BE OF INTEREST TODAY!)
- Environment challenge 1 (about a river in Australia)
- Environment challenge 2 (about a river in Australia)
- Gun Law in Texas (debate about guns and personal safety)
- One-third of homes (financial government support for UK families)
- Smartphone addiction (when smartphones became popular in the UK)
- Smoking ban (from when smoking was banned in public places in the UK)
- The shipping news (about a tanker that caused an oil spill off the coast of the UK)
Some interesting old news articles can be found HERE