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An index of grammar points and classroom exercises or activities accompanying Linguapress intermediate reading texts

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This index covers the A2, B1 and B2 intermediate English reading texts available on Linguapress.com.
You may also like more information on CEFR A2 level and   CEFR B2 level
For a full list including other resources return to the Intermediate resources index

For levels A2-B1, see also: Présentation en français.   Presentación en español

In addition to the main 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.

Exercises shown as interactive can be completed on screen, either by students working online or in the classroom using an interactive whiteboard.
MCQ =  Multiple choice questions (cloze exercises).
Audio versions of texts - podcasts - can be streamed as MP3 files.

Intermediate reading texts - by level

► For more advanced texts, from harder B2 texts to C2 resources, see Advanced texts by CEFR level
Title CEFR level Theme Grammar points Worksheet, main exercises and activities
The origins of football and rugby - A2 Article / Sport Verbs - the past Interactive  MCQ cloze exercise - choose the right word
Ed Sheeran with audio A2 People Verbs - the past Interactive missing words exercise: missing three letter words
Princess Kate – from Kate Middleton to Queen Catherine  - with audio A2 People
Interactive exercise: replace the missing words.
Creative writing: questions to ask Kate.
Vocabulary: family relations
The place where money has no value  with audio A2 Places – UK Prepositions and adverbs
Expressing negatives
 Interactive MCQ with dropdown lists - Prepositions and adverbs
English ghost stories A2 B1 Life - Britain Irregular verbs The second part of the rticle is A2 level.
Interactive Grammar exercise: irregular verbs
Marathons - what are they about?  with audio A2  B1 Interview- Britain Questions, time and numbers.
 Interactive missing words exercise, for listening practice
Martin Luther King - American hero  with audio A2  B1 Life - USA Verbs - the past Interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise, mainly based on past tenses.
Living underground - past and future - with audio A2  B1 Technical Nouns   Interactive Replace all the missing nouns..
Vocabulary: opposites
Dance Macabre  - short story with audio B1 Short Story Prepositions Interactive grammar exercise: replace missing prepositions Interactive comprehension exercise: answer the questions.
Alcohol, Prohibition and Al Capone B1 Life - USA Negatives, modal verbs, quantifiers. Interactive MCQ - words.
America's oil - a love affair B1 Life - USA Verbs: Present tenses
Past tenses		 Interactive exercises: Mismatched sentences.
MCQ cloze verb tense exercise
Black and British B1 Life - Britain 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.
Britain - a nation of cat-lovers Text including interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise with audio B1 Life – Britain
Interactive MCQ gap-fill / cloze exercise replace the missing words (from a list)
Britain, that island: with audio B1 Life - Britain
Comprehension: complete the sentences using information from the text.
Charles III Britain's new king
with audio		 B1 People – Britain Verb forms and tenses Interactive exercise - Imagine questions from answers given Interactive Grammar exercise: verb forms and tenses.
Charles III, his coronation and the future   with audio B1 Life - Britain Verbs: the future
Expressing negation
Not, no, nor etc		  Interactive MCQ  Grammar exercise: the future, negation
Interactive Anagrams
The end of the world?   with audio B1 Life in general Future events
 Interactive vocabulary exercise.
Interactive True/false comprehension exercise.
Christmas shopping B1 Life - Britain Prepositions Interactive grammar exercise: prepositions.
Question forming.
Climate change: can we stop it ? - with audio B1 Technical Modal verbs Interactive MCQ  Choose the correct word from the lists provided. Covers vocabulary, grammar, collocations
Dialogue: Talking about   "culture" B1 Discussion Tag questions   Interactive MCQ  grammar exercise: choose the right tags
Dialogue: Talking about  fashion B1 Discussion Tag questions
Verbs: present tenses		 Interactive MCQ  grammar exercise: choose the right tags
 Interactive comprehension exercise: explain meanings.
Creative writing activity.
Dialogue: Talking about  school uniforms  with audio B1 Discussion Negation. Negative structures Two exercises covering vocabulary and creative writing.
George Washington with audio B1 Life - USA Verbs: the passive Interactive MCQ - expressions. Write questions from answers.
Holidays in space    with audio B1 Technical Articles - the, a an or no article Interactive MCQ  grammar exercise. Choose the correct article when needed.
Keir Starmer - Britain's new prime minister  with audio B1 People - Britain Articles - the, a an or no article.  Question forming. InteractiveMCQ  grammar exercise. Choose the correct article when needed.   Form questions starting...
Life in Umbridge-
The problems of country life in England		 B1 Life – Britain Complete the sentences
London in the Sea ? -
with 20 missing words to select (interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise)		 B1 Life – Britain Prepositions.
Verbs: - expressing the future (will, going to etc.)		 Interactive grammar exercise: replace missing prepositions.
Activity: pair work - imagine an interview
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.
Moving to the Country - with audio B1 Life - Britain Verbs: - tenses 1. Comprehension questions true or false. 2 Interactive Grammar exercise: missing verbs.
Music : the Beatles B1 British icons
Comprehension questions true or false.
Paused reading suggestion.
My name is Bond. B1 People - Britain Adjectives: comparison and gradation Interactive exercise: correct the mistakes in the resumé
Polluting for pleasure - a dialogue B1 Technical 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 Technical
Interactive exercise: word order. Put the words in the right order.
Some of the words in the copied dialogue are misplaced.
Remembering Queen Elizabeth B1 People – Britain Verbs:. The simple past (preterite) - historic narrative Interactive 1. Cloze exercise - replace the missing verbs.  2. Comprehension questions - true or false.
One Foggy Night  - short story with audio B1 Short Story Prepositions and adverbs
Modal verbs
Tag questions.
Verbs: tenses		 Interactive grammar exercise: replace missing prepositions and adverbs.
Listening activity: note the small differences between the written and recorded versions.
Part 2: Interactive  Retelling the story
Interactive  Prepositions
Past tenses (past perfect / pluperfect)
The path to High Crag  - short story with audio B1 Short Story 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
The Trap - short story with audio B1 Short Story 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.
Dr. Trelew's Encounter  - short story with audio - with  audio B1 Short Story
True or false comprehension questions.  
Word search.  Direct and indirect speech.
Short story: the Wimp.   with audio B1 Short Story Informal conversational style Interactive exercise – complete sentences using info from the story.
The car of the future?- short story with audio B1 Technical
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.
The legendary Mini Cooper B1 Technical 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 men who guard the King  with audio B1 British icons Questions Interactive - Complete an imaginary interview - Questions without question words. Interactive - Find the missing words
Will there be life after oil?   with audio B1 Technical 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. 
New life for Big Ben. with audio B1/ B2 British icons Voices - active and passive MCQ – select the correct word / information.
Convert active to passive and vice-versa.
Britain: sport cuts crime.  I B1/B2 Article / Sport
Interactive cloze exercise – complete an extract from the text
Canada An introduction B1/B2 Life - Canada Prepositions Interactive Grammar cloze exercise: replace the missing prepositions.
Dialogue: Talking about   drugs B1/B2 Discussion Agreeing and disagreeing
Tag questions.		 True or false comprehension questions.
Creative writing exercise
Dialogue: Talking about work   B1/B2 Discussion Tag questions.
Conditional clauses.  If		 Interactive grammar exercise: add the missing tags
MCQ  Exercise: words and meanings
Hollywood & Superheroes Text including interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise B1/B2 Life - USA Verbs: MCQ gap-fill / cloze exercise mostly on verbs.
Activity: imaginary interview.
Exercise:answer the questions.
I would if I could Sing along song   with audio B1/B2 Song Modal verbs: Sing along to learn the modal verbs.
Interactive gap fill exercise: modal verbs
The story of London B1/B2 Life – Britain Adverbs and function words Interactive MCQ exercise: adverbs and function words
Interactive Comprehension questions.
True or false questions
Winter sports USA B1/B2 Life - USA
Interactive cloze exercise: MCQ – select the correct word.
 The story of Silicon Valley B2 Technical Questions Interactive  Write questions to fit the answers given and using the prompt words given.
  
American Indians - The original inhabitants of the USA with audio B2 Life - USA
Interactive Missing words, questions from answers.
Big red London buses  with audio B2 Life – Britain Prepositions. Interactive grammar exercise: replace missing prepositions
True or false questions.  Text contraction
Black taxis going green. B2 Technical One and all Interactive exercise: complete the half sentences,
Charlie Chaplin and the Little Tramp. B2 British icons
Write questions to fit the answers given.
Interactive - Word families: find words in the same family as...
Christmas in England  with audio B2 Life – Britain Quantifiers.  - less, few,  fewer, many, more, most, etc. Verb forms and tenses Essential comprehension questions .
Interactive grammar exercise - verbs
Close encounters with a Twister - A tornado strikes. B2 Life - USA Prepositions.
Verbs: Present participles and the past progressive		 Interactive Grammar exercise: replace the missing prepositions. MCQ exercise on synonyms.
Make up questions.
Dialogue: Talking about  fast food  with audio B2 Discussion
Interactive memory exercise (vocabulary)
Elvis - he's still the "King" B2 Music - USA Demonstratives Interactive exercise – complete the interview.
Hollywood - its life and times B2 Life - USA Expressing time Interactive exercise: complete the sentences.
Living in the Highlands. B2 Life - Britain Articles
Adjectives: and epithets		 1. Interactive MCQ  Grammar exercise: articles
2. True/False comprehension questions.
3. Word order exercise.
Living without energy   B2 Technical Articles - the, a an or no article Interactive MCQ  grammar exercise. Choose the correct article when needed.
London Fashion B2 Life – Britain Conjunctions and connectors (and, but, yet, however, while,  although etc.) Interactive MCQ exercise: conjunctions and connectors
Mystery : The Titanic and the Temple of Doom   B2 Short Story Verbs: Interactive grammar exercise: verb forms.
Memory testing: paused reading.
Creative writing: imaginary letter
No more Fish 'n' Chips? B2 Life - Britain Nouns and articles Comprehension exercise: pick out the mistakes.
Interactive MCQ grammar exercise: articles
Profession : Cowboy  with audio B2 Life - USA
Interactive Answer the questions.
Vocabulary - antonyms
Robin Hood B2 British icons
Interactive exercise: replace missing words. Pair work: interviews with Robin Hood.
Sherlock Holmes is growing old - B2 British icons Adverbs, conjunctions, Verbs:.
Verbs:: past tenses		 Interactive exercise: replace missing words (grammar based). Activity: pair work - discussions.
The Girl in the Denim Jacket -- short story with audio B2 Short Story 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.
Driftwood  -- short story with audio B2 Short Story Gerunds and other -ing words Two types of comprehension exercise based on the story.
The Box  - - short story with audio B2 Short Story 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.
The story of football and rugby - B2 Article / Sport
Interactive Fun MCQ cloze exercise
Reusing information: complete the sentences in the first person.
Find synonyms.
The story of the Derby   with audio B2 Article / Sport Prepositions Interactive grammar exercise: replace missing prepositions
True or false questions.   
Listening activity : spot differences between the recording and the written text.
Still looking for Gold B2 Life - USA Indirect speech, Quantifiers.  - few, a few, much, many etc Imaginary interview: answer the questions.
Storing electricity - the big challenge. B2 Technical Indefinite pronouns (everywhere, anywhere etc.) Interactive exercise: replace the missing words using the list provided. Tests vocabulary and grammar.
Team sports, American style B2 Article / sport Verbs: present simple passive, present perfect Interactive cloze exercise – complete sentences using info from the article.
The Commonwealth. B2 Places
Interactive exercise – Reading for information.
Comprehension questions True or False
The Loch Ness Monster B2 British icons Prepositions Interactive grammar exercise: replace missing prepositions.
The story of Blue Jeans. with audio B2 Life - USA
Interactive  cloze exercise: complete the summary (missing words).
Listening exercise. Pick out the small differences between the audio recording and the written text.
The story of Coca-Cola. Text including interactive MCQ gap-fill exercise. with audio B2 Life - USA Use of Articles Interactive  cloze exercise: missing words.
Interactive MCQ cloze exercise: missing articles.
What and where is Silicon Valley ? B2 Places - USA Questions Interactive exercise - Imagine questions from the answers given.
The story of the BBC B2 British icons
Imagine questions from answers (Questions with question words).
The tradition of Christmas cards. B2 Life – Britain 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.
Who is James Bond ? B2 People - Britain Word endings Interactive exercise. Fill in the missing word endings.
Pair work: imaginary interviews.
Who was Buffalo Bill? with audio B2 People - USA
Listening activity: differences between the written and the recorded text. Exercise: write questions from answers.
The story of the bicycle - B2+ Technical
True or false comprehension questions.  
Pair work: imaginary interview.
The wind farm controversy - B2+ Technical
Expressions and meaning. Out of eleven expressions explained, which four explanations are incorrect?
Leaving home B2 Life - Britain Various points are illustrated in this extended document.
1. Word search. 2. Comprehension questions true or false. 3. Interactive : complete the missing middle part of sentences.
London : Madame Tussaud's -  
Life – Britain Modal verbs Match up sentences: connect the correct part B to each part A.
London: the Great River Race  B2 Life – Britain
 Interactive : Reusing information. Complete the postcard
London: the Lord Mayor's show.
Life – Britain
Reusing information. Complete the sentences.
Scouting moves ahead.
Life - Britain
Reusing information write sentences starting..
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