An index of grammar points and classroom exercises or activities accompanying Linguapress intermediate reading texts
This index covers the B1
and B2 intermediate English reading texts available on
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activities and exercises listed,
most pages
in this index also come with additiional tips for teachers, information
about
grammar, and/or more classroom ideas. Extra activities, interactivity
and exercises are added periodically to
these resources, and suggestions are welcomed from teachers.
Section 1 
Articles with an American theme
| Article / Text | Type/ level | Grammar points / functions | Main Exercises and activities |
| American Indians - The original inhabitants of the USA | B2 | Interactive Missing words, questions from answers. | |
| Alcohol, Prohibition and Al Capone | B1 | Negatives, modal verbs, quantifiers. | Interactive MCQ - words. |
| Profession : Cowboy | B2 | Interactive
Answer
the questions. Vocabulary - antonyms |
|
| George Washington with audio | B1 | Verbs: the passive | Interactive MCQ - expressions. Write questions from answers. |
| Hollywood & Superheroes Text including interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise | B1/B2 | Verbs | MCQ
gap-fill / cloze
exercise mostly on
verbs. Activity: imaginary interview. Exercise:answer the questions. |
| Canada An introduction | B1/B2 | Prepositions | Interactive Grammar cloze exercise: replace the missing prepositions. |
| Still looking for Gold | B2 | Indirect speech, Quantifiers - few, a few, much, many etc | Imaginary interview: answer the questions. |
| Who was Buffalo Bill? with audio | B2 | Listening activity: differences between the written and the recorded text. Exercise: write questions from answers. | |
| Team sports, American style | B2 | Verb tenses: present simple passive, present perfect | Interactive cloze exercise – complete sentences using info from the article. |
| Elvis - he's still the "King" | B2 | Demonstratives | Interactive exercise – complete the interview. |
| The story of Silicon Valley | B2 | Questions | Interactive exercise - Imagine questions from the answers given. |
| The story of Coca-Cola. Text including interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise | B2 | Use of articles | Interactive
cloze exercise:
missing words. Interactive MCQ cloze exercise: missing articles. |
| The story of Blue Jeans. | B2 | Interactive cloze exercise: complete the summary (missing words). | |
| Hollywood - its life and times | B2 | Expressing time | Interactive exercise: complete the sentences. |
| America's oil - a love affair | B1 | Verbs: Present tenses Past tenses |
Interactive
exercises: Mismatched sentences. MCQ cloze verb tense exercise |
| Winter sports USA | B1/B2 | Interactive cloze exercise: MCQ – select the correct word. | |
| Close encounters with a Twister - A tornado strikes. | B2 | Prepositions. Present participles and the past progressive |
Interactive
Grammar
exercise: replace the missing
prepositions. MCQ
exercise on synonyms. Make up questions. |
Section 2 
Articles with a British theme
| Article / Text | Type/ level | Grammar points / functions | Main Exercises and activities |
| Remembering Queen Elizabeth | B1 | Verbs. The simple past (preterite) - historic narrative | Interactive Grammar cloze exercise - replace the missing verbs. |
| Britain - a nation of cat-lovers Text including interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise | B1 | Interactive MCQ gap-fill / cloze exercise replace the missing words (from a list) | |
| Charles III, his coronation and the future | B1 | Verbs:
the future Expressing negation Not, no, nor etc |
Interactive
MCQ
Grammar exercise: the future, negation Interactive Anagrams |
| Charles
III Britain's new king with audio |
B1 | Verb forms and tenses | Interactive exercise - Imagine questions from answers given Interactive Grammar exercise: verb forms and tenses. |
| The Commonwealth. | B2 | Interactive
exercise
– Reading for information. Comprehension questions True or False |
|
| The tradition of Christmas cards. | B2 | Prepositions Quantifiers - each, every, many, no etc. |
Interactive
exercise
– Word order: put words in the correct order. Interactive
exercise:
replace missing prepositions. Interactive exercise - Imagine questions from the answers given. |
| Christmas in England with audio | B2 | Quantifiers - less,
few,
fewer, many, more, most, etc Verb forms and tenses |
Essential comprehension questions . Interactive grammar exercise - verbs |
| Christmas shopping | B1 | Prepositions | Interactive
grammar exercise: prepositions. Question forming. |
| Britain, that island: with audio | B1 | Comprehension: complete the sentences using information from the text. | |
| Living in the Highlands. | B2 | Articles Adjectives and epithets |
1. Interactive
MCQ
Grammar exercise: articles 2. True/False comprehension questions. 3. Word order exercise. |
| The wind farm controversy | B2+ | Words / expressions and meanings. | |
| Moving to the Country - with audio | B1 | Verbs - tenses | 1. Comprehension questions true or false. 2 Interactive Grammar exercise: missing verbs. |
| Leaving home | 1. Word search. 2. Comprehension questions true or false. 3. Interactive : complete the missing middle part of sentences. | ||
| Black and British | B1 | Quantifiers (with of or not?) | Interactive exercise: complete the resumé, filling in the missing words. 2. Interactive Grammar exercise: quantifiers. 3. Comprehension questions true or false. Paused reading suggestions. |
| No more Fish 'n' Chips? | B2 | Nouns and articles | Comprehension exercise: pick out the mistakes. Interactive MCQ grammar exercise: articles |
| Scouting moves ahead. | Reusing information write sentences starting.. | ||
| English ghost stories | B1 | Irregular verbs | Interactive Grammar exercise: irregular verbs |
| Black taxis going green. | B2 | One and all | Interactive exercise: complete the half sentences, |
| My name is Bond. | B1 | Adjectives: comparison and gradation | Interactive exercise: correct the mistakes in the resumé |
| Who is James Bond ? | B2 | Word endings | Interactive
exercise. Fill in the missing word endings. Pair work: imaginary interviews. |
| New life for Big Ben. with audio | B1/ B2 | Active and passive | MCQ
– select the
correct word / information. Convert active to passive and vice-versa. |
| Charlie Chaplin and the Little Tramp. | B2 | Write questions to fit the
answers given. Interactive - Word families: find words in the same family as... |
|
| Sherlock Holmes is growing old - | B2 | Adverbs, conjunctions, verbs. Verbs: past tenses |
Interactive exercise: replace missing words (grammar based). Activity: pair work - discussions. |
| Music : the Beatles | B1 | Comprehension questions true or false. Paused reading suggestion. |
|
| Robin Hood | B2 | Interactive exercise: replace missing words. Pair work: interviews with Robin Hood. | |
| The Loch Ness Monster | B2 | Prepositions | Interactive grammar exercise: replace missing prepositions. |
| The story of the BBC | B2 | Imagine questions from answers (Questions with question words). | |
| The
men who guard the King with audio |
B1 | Questions | Interactive
- Complete an imaginary interview - Questions without question words. Interactive - Find the missing words |
| London Fashion | B2 | Conjunctions and connectors (and, but, yet, however, while, although etc.) | Interactive MCQ exercise: conjunctions and connectors |
| London
in the Sea ? - with 20 missing words to select (interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise) |
B1 | Prepositions. Verbs - expressing the future (will, going to etc.) |
Interactive
grammar exercise:
replace missing prepositions. Activity: pair work - imagine an interview |
| The story of London | B1/B2 | Adverbs and function words | Interactive
MCQ exercise:
adverbs and function words Interactive Comprehension questions. True or false questions |
| Big red London buses with audio | B2 | Prepositions | Interactive
grammar exercise:
replace missing prepositions True or false questions. Text contraction |
| London : Madame Tussaud's - | Modal verbs | Match up sentences: connect the correct part B to each part A. | |
| London: the Lord Mayor's show. | Reusing information. Complete the sentences. | ||
| London: the Great River Race | Reusing information. Complete the postcard |
Section 3 - Varia - sport, dialogues, short stories
| Article / Text | Type/ level | Grammar points / functions | Main Exercises and activities |
| Britain: sport cuts crime. I | B1/B2 | Interactive cloze exercise – complete an extract from the text | |
| Team sports, American style | B2 | Verb tenses: present simple passive, present perfect | Interactive exercise – complete sentences using info from the article. |
| Sport:
The
story
of the Derby
- with audio |
B2 | Prepositions | Interactive
grammar exercise:
replace missing prepositions True or false questions. Listening activity : spot differences between the recording and the written text. |
| Sport: The story of football and rugby - | B2 | Interactive
Fun
MCQ
cloze exercise Reusing information: complete the sentences in the first person. Find synonyms. |
|
| Looking for the yeti. | B1 | Relatives | Join pairs of sentences using which who or when. Reusing information: What did people say when... ? Nouns and adjectives for place names. |
| Mystery : The Titanic and the Temple of Doom | B2 | Verbs | Interactive
grammar exercise: verb forms. Memory testing: paused reading. Creative writing: imaginary letter |
| Short
story: Dr.
Trelew's Encounter with audio |
B1 | True or false comprehension questions. Word search. Direct and indirect speech. |
|
| Short
story: Dance Macabre - with audio |
B1 | Prepositions | Interactive
grammar exercise:
replace missing prepositions Interactive comprehension exercise: answer the questions. |
| Short story: Driftwood - with audio | B2 | -ing words | Two types of comprehension exercise based on the story. |
| Short story: the Wimp. | B1 | Informal conversational style | Interactive exercise – complete sentences using info from the story. |
| Short Story - The Girl in the Denim Jacket - with audio | B2 | Phrasal verbs | True or false comprehension questions. Phrasal verbs and meaning - match items in list A to list B. Free expression: anticipating the ending. More exercises and activities with part 2. |
| Short Story - The Trap , | B1 | Verbs Get and
got Phrasal verbs |
Telephone English - Interactive
- complete the phone call
using info
from the story. Complete the story in your own words. In part 2: Phrasal verbs, Interactive - write questions from answers, and other activities. |
| Short story: The Box - with audio | B2 | Prepositions and prepositional verbs (in both parts of the story) | Interactive
grammar exercise:
replace missing prepositions and adverbs. Retell
the story using the prompts given. Listening activity: note the small differences between the written and recorded versions. Other suggestions and activities. |
| Short
Story -
One
Foggy Night with audio |
B1 | Prepositions and adverbs Modal verbs Tag questions. Verb tenses |
Interactive
grammar exercise:
replace missing prepositions and adverbs. Listening activity: note the small differences between the written and recorded versions. Part 2: Retelling the story Past tenses (past perfect / pluperfect) |
| Short Story - The path to High Crag | B1 | Negation,
phrasal verbs, Get
and got Irregular verbs Prepositions and adverbs |
Interactive comprehension
/ rephrasing : turn notes into sentences Part 2: Interactive irregular verbs table. Prepositions exercise: add the missing words |
| Dialogue: Talking about work | B1/B2 | Tag questions Conditional clauses. |
Interactive
grammar exercise: add the missing tags MCQ Exercise: words and meanings |
| Dialogue: Talking about drugs | B1/B2 | Agreeing and disagreeing Tag questions |
True or false comprehension questions. Creative writing exercise |
| Dialogue: Talking about "culture" | B1 | Tag questions | Interactive MCQ grammar exercise: choose the right tags |
| Dialogue: Talking about fashion | B1 | Tag questions Verbs: present tenses |
Interactive
MCQ
grammar exercise: choose the right tags Interactive comprehension exercise: explain meanings. Creative writing activity. |
| Dialogue: Talking about fast food with audio | B2 | Interactive memory exercise (vocabulary) | |
| Dialogue: Talking about school uniforms with audio | B1 | Negation. Negative structures | Two exercises covering vocabulary and creative writing. |
Section 4 - Technical and semi-technical English
| Article / Text | Type/ level | Grammar points / functions | Main Exercises and activities |
| Storing electricity - the big challenge. | B2 | Indefinite pronouns (everywhere, anywhere etc.) | Interactive exercise: replace the missing words using the list provided. Tests vocabulary and grammar. |
| Climate
change: can we stop it ? - with audio |
B1 | Modal verbs | Interactive MCQ Choose the correct word from the lists provided. Covers vocabulary, grammar, collocations |
| Polluting for pleasure - a dialogue | B1 | Tag questions, oral style | Interactive exercise:
provide short answers on the model Yes I do. Rephrasing exercise. Suggestion for a role-play activity |
| Pollution
-
someone else's problem - a humourous dialogue |
B1 | Interactive exercise:
word order. Put the words in the right order. Some of the words in the copied dialogue are misplaced. |
|
| The wind farm controversy - | B2+ | Expressions and meaning. Out of eleven expressions explained, which four explanations are incorrect? | |
| The car of the future? with audio | B1 | Interactive exercise:
replace the missing words using the list provided. The list provides 25
words, but your will only need 20 of these... making this exercise a
bit more interesting ! Activities on: comparing, explaining vocabulary, creative writing. |
|
| Will there be life after oil? with audio | B1 | Modal verbs - will and others | Interactive
MCQ
Choose the correct modal from the lists
provided. Interactive exercise: replace the missing words in a résumé of the article. |
| Holidays in space with audio | B1 | Articles - the, a an or no article | Interactive MCQ grammar exercise. Choose the correct article when needed. |
| The story of Silicon Valley | B2 | Questions | Interactive
Write questions to fit the
answers given and using the prompt words given. |
| Living without energy | B2 | Articles - the, a an or no article | Interactive MCQ grammar exercise. Choose the correct article when needed. |
| The legendary Mini Cooper | B1 | Irregular verbs, Phrasal verbs Prepositions Articles Questions |
Irregular verbs exercise - find the preterite forms Phrasal verb exercise: explain the meanings Interactive grammar exercise. Choose the correct article when needed. Interactive exercise. Write questions to fit the answers given and using the question words given. |
| The story of the bicycle - | B2+ | True or false comprehension questions. Pair work: imaginary interview. |
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