Reading Comprehension and Test Preparation Interactive activities to help you understand written English and to prepare you for reading exams.

Surfing the web I found these very interesting pages that will help you review for your Reading Comprehension exercises for the PET exam. The author, Skip Reske, has done an excellent job. Thanks Skip! Enjoy and do not try to do all of them in one session!!! There are 19 sets with exercises on Signs, Details, Matching, Gist and Gaps.

Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4, Set 5, Set 6, Set 7, Set 8, Set 9, Set 10, Set 11, Set 12, Set 13, Set 14, Set 15, Set 16, Set 17, Set 18, Set 19

If you want to visit Skip's Website click here.

Football (or soccer)

Just take a look at these websites for more information about football or soccer.

 

BBC Newsround has a huge number of short articles on the subject of football. To see a list of articles, with the most recent first, just do a search with the word ‘football’. 

 

A section of the BBC sport website on the recent Women’s World Cup in China. Numerous 

articles and reports, but difficult for pre-intermediate level. 

  

‘Laws and Equipment’, from the football section of the BBC website. It's a bit difficult for pre- 

intermediate level, but contains lots of vocabulary for football fans.  

Barack Obama

I hope you enjoyed the activity about the Democratic candidate, Mr. Barack Obama. If you want to know about this politician visit these websites:

A BBC Newsround article from June 2008, asking "What's the big deal about Obama?"

A recent Newsround article on the role of Obama and his family in the Democratic Party's recent national covention.

The official website of Obama's presidential election campaign.

Epals are back!

Dear students,

As I told you today, Mr Yearger, one of our language assistants from the States last year, would like to start an email exchange. This will start this week. Do you remember your login and your password? Well, if you don't, ask me as soon as possible. Remember the website is www.epals.com More news from Mr Yeager soon.

See you tomorrow.