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Elementary- Pre-intermediate
Upper-Int - Advanced

  • GRABAWORD (formerly In The News)

    - activities to help low to high intermediate level English students collect and learn high frequency words as efficiently as possible while improving your reading and listening skills and knowledge about a range of topical issues. Activities for each story are designed to be completed in easy to follow, sequential steps within approximately 45 minutes.

    • LOW INTERMEDIATE - INTERMEDIATE - Voice Of America (VOA), Behind The News (BtN)
    • INTERMEDIATE - HIGH INTERMEDIATE - ABC’s The World Today (TWT)
    • includes links to audio tracks and a transcript.

    • HOW TO ACCESS GRABAWORD LESSONS

      To access these lessons, please go to grabaword.com sign up page (this link opens in a new tab) and add the following code:

      24896427323110                (copy and paste this - take care there is no space after the last number)

      This access to GrabaWord is also in the Vocabulary and the Listening sectionS of Independent Learning. 
    • Behind The News - main website URL

      This is the ABC's website for Behind The News. Some Grabaword lessons (above) are based on these stories.

    • ABC - The World Today - main page URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      This is the ABC's website for The World Today. Some Grabaword lessons (above) are based on these stories.

    • Other resources

    • Study Zone - Intermediate - 5 stories - with activities URL
      Students must
      Mark as done
      • 2 types of online activities - comprehension and grammar
    • Study Zone - Upper Intermediate - 5 stories - with activities URL
      Students must
      Mark as done
      • some have pre-reading vocabulary exercises as well
    • Intermediate+ ESLUS - Reading Lessons URL
    • Intermediate activities Page
Elementary- Pre-intermediate
Upper-Int - Advanced