Unit 1 Readings; Civil War - Chapter the Civil War

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Advanced English reading texts - average level C1

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American themes

British themes

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Advanced English reading texts: while the bulk of texts in this resource are at CEF levels C1, a few are harder (level C2) and a few are easier (level B2). All the texts in this collection are written in normal English; however in order to maximize their language teaching potential, most accept been specifically written for students of English as a foreign or second language, or else for loftier schoolhouse students. Texts are accompanied by advanced reading comprehension worksheets designed to prepare students for the Cambridge Avant-garde English (C1) certification or for the international TOEFL or TOEIC tests.
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1. Reading comprehension - articles on life and issues in North America

Life in America

NEW (Technical) The electric automobile revolution, realistic or optimistic? With interactive worksheet. Tin the globe really catechumen to electric vehicles by the middle of the century?
NEW Marker Twain and the frogs of Calaveras County. With audio and interactive worksheet. A California festival is a tribute to Twain'south famous brusque story.
NEW The American way of eating. With audio and interactive worksheet. A brusque await at the origins of fast food.
Steaming on the Mississippi. With audio and interactive worksheet. The Mississippi's famous paddleboats.
Aeroponics. Agriculture for tomorrow's world. (Technical English)
Nevada and its Extraterrestrials. Have aliens from some other planet really been seen near the township of Rachel ?
Log cabins and the White House. Many Us presidents accept come from humble roots.
Gettysburg - the terrible battle. A dark folio in U.s. history - with four exercises and activities
Awaiting the Big One. Some other massive earthquake could hit California very before long
The story of Ellis Island, Withaudio - The gateway to America through which millions once passed.
Skyscrapers Now found in cities worldwide, skyscrapers were once symbols of America.
Wall Street Civilization - 1 could call information technology America'southward well-nigh pop street culture.
Thanksgiving Withaudio - a very American festival.
Mardi gras in New Orleans - the near colorful festival in the Usa, by John Robillard
College sport USA - Sport is function of Us campus life, but at what toll?
Rodeo - the sport of the American Due west .
The Yukon Quest - The thou mile race that is the toughest race in the world..

America : people and gild

NEW Thinking it over with baby. Withaudio and interactive worksheet. Being a teenager and a mom at the same fourth dimension is unremarkably not a good idea.
NEW The Human being who changed America. Withsound Henry Ford did more than anyone else to shape 20th century life.
Hillary Clinton - the early years . by Nicole Bernheim.
Citizen Welles - a short biography of Orson Welles, the greatest unsuccessful Holywood director.
Who killed Martin Luther King? Withsound Mystery nonetheless surrounds the bump-off of America's greatest civil rights leader.
Rosa Parks - the young lady whose defiance helped outset the Civil rights movement
So just who is Angelyne ? - the Hollywood celebrity who'due south famous just for being famous
America's Amish; model order? A look at some Americans with an unusual lifestyle
America's teen courts - Where teenage offenders are judged by other teens..
Crime-time Basketball - Midnight basketball aims to keep young people off the streets..
Topical America's Drive-in Movie theaters - how much longer will they concluding?
Americans fat and thin - A third of Americans are seriously overweight.
The Mormons, a curiously American phenomenon. One of America's biggest fringe religions.

American music

Woodie Guthrie. The Dustbowl baladeer.
The Story of the Blues - with audio - by Robert Springer
Interview with Leonard Cohen . A Linguapress exclusive.
Jewel, the voice from Alaska - the singing sensation from America's far north.
Mississippi music - Jazz, blues, soul and rock 'north' curl, they all originated in the Mississippi valley.
John Lennon- Remembering the expiry in New York of the Beatle who inverse the world..

U.s. : places and environment

Highway 66 revisited -- with audio - A trip down America'southward legendary "Road 66"
Mighty Mississippi - the river that links and divides the USA
Bodie - where the West was one time wildest - Visiting a ghost town in the mountains of California.
America's bald eagles - a story of success . How the emblematic bird of the USA has been saved from extinction.
Salvage the Everglades - Florida's unique wetlands are in serious danger.
California's Water Wars - Larry Wood reports on a critical upshot facing Californians.
Deserts of America - A large part of the western United states is covered by desert, and it is getting larger.
A boondocks called Sturgis - Mecca for Harley Davidson riders.

International themes, language

NEW The electric car revolution, realistic or optimistic? With interactive worksheet. (technical English language)
NEW A rose by any other proper noun. - withaudio - Words, pregnant and political definiteness
NEW Accents and dialects. - withaudio - An introduction to varieties of spoken English
Aeroponics. Agriculture for tomorrow'south world. (Technical English)
Globalization? What globalization? It's here to stay, but changes are needed

2. Reading comprehension - articles on life and issues in the United kingdom and Ireland

NEW Just who are the English ? Trying to define Englishness is not a very easy task.
NEW Uk - at any cost ? Human traffickers are waiting to exploit people who want to come up to the Great britain.
English language pub signs What lies backside the sometimes strange names of English language pubs ?
Tea and the British - with sound - Tea has been Britain'due south favourite drink for more than ii centuries
Life in Umbridge - Finding a place to live in rural Britain tin be hard for ordinary folk.
London's Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's biggest street carnival
Britain's Chinese come out on top - they are the nearly successful group in modern Britain
All you need is Love - A true story from Ireland, by Leanne Meyer
Smugglers - an onetime action enters a new phase - Smuggling has long been an illicit activity on England's south coast
Nature / wildlife: the Bird Human of the Isles - an interview from the Scottish island of Skye.

U.k. : people

NEW Charles Darwin - a genius remembered with audio and interactive worksheet. A scientific text for full general readers.
NEW The Queen who almost wasn't with sound and interactive worksheet. Queen Elibath Two was not built-in to be Queen...
Agatha Christie - She died in 1976, but she's even so a worldwide bestseller.
Stephen Hawking - the world'southward greatest scientist - who died in 2018
J.R.R. Tolkien - the creator of the Hobbit
Shakespeare'southward enduring heritage With audio and interactive worksheet. Shakespeare died over 400 years agone, then why is he still so important ?

Interview

NEW Drugs: Days in the decease of Francis X - interview with a heroin aficionado

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iii. Technical English, brusque stories and word games

Technical English

NEW The electric car revolution, realistic or optimistic? With interactive worksheet. Can the world really catechumen to electric vehicles by the middle of the century?
NEW Aeroponics. Agriculture for tomorrow's world.
Fox Talbot and the origins of photography , The get-go photo was taken in... 1835 !
GM crops: Frankenstein food? Are genetically modified crops a huge risk, or the future of agriculture?
Skiing in the wind How science and technology help skiers become faster
The story of the jet plane
Charles Babbage, the begetter of the figurer (brusque text).
Meet Robodog (difficult):

Avant-garde English brusk stories and games

NEW A few good reasons - by Sue Quinn. A short story from the United states of america with audio
NEW For Elise - by Pamela Garza. A brusque story from the USA with audio
Short story: The Car - by Andrew Rossiter. A brusk story in advanced level English language with audio
Curt story: Blue Gum Tree - by Pat Boyle. A short story from New Zealand with audio
Brusk Story: Lucky Jim - by Walda Cameron. A curt story from the USA.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain (Appendix to Mark Twain and the frogs of Calaveras County)
Language games and puzzles
Quiz: Famous Americans

English forB2, C1 and C2 levels. Advanced English language reading resource

CEFR / TELC - Proficiency

IELTS - levels 6 - 9

ACTFL - levels Advanced-high – Superior.

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Unit 1 Readings; Civil War - Chapter the Civil War