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Table of Contents
- Online Dictionaries
- Readings with Gloss
- Poems with Gloss
- Readings with True/False Quiz
- Readings with Multiple Choice Quiz
- Story-Building
- Text Reconstruction
- Cloze Exercises [Fill in the blanks (gaps) in a text]
Reading Excerpts with Textual Gloss
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Each excerpt is taken from the readings below. By putting the cursor over an underlined word, you can see a definition of that word.
By clicking on the Related Audio button, you can see a list of audio selections related to the readings.
Nonfiction
- Coffee Plants Yield More if a Forest is Nearby
- Genetic Engineering
- Snow Melting on Kilimanjaro
- Thirsty? How 'bout a cool, refreshing cup of seawater? [Advanced]
Fiction
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Poems with Textual Gloss
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Difficult words in each poem are glossed. By putting the cursor over an underlined word, you can see a definition of that word at the top of the page.
- Maya Angelou - I know why the caged bird sings
- e. e. cummings - somewhere i have never travelled
- Emily Dickinson - In the Garden
- Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
- D. H. Lawrence - Self Pity
- Vachel Lindsay - The Moon's the North Wind's Cookie
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Christmas Bells
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Arrow and the Song
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Rainy Day
- Edwin Markham - The Man with a Hoe (excerpt)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay - City Trees
- Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee
- Ezra Pound - In a Station of the Metro
- Ezra Pound - The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
- E. A. Robinson - Richard Cory
- Carl Sandburg - Fog
- Carl Sandburg - The Junk Man
- Wallace Stevens - The Man with the Blue Guitar (excerpt)
- William Carlos Williams - This Is Just To Say
- William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Historical Context of The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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Readings with True/False Quiz
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Each exercise consists of a timed reading and a quiz.
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Readings with Multiple Choice Quiz
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Each exercise consists of a reading and a quiz.
Intermediate
- California Man's Unexpected Boat Trip
- Electric Guitar Music
- Genetic Engineering
- Snow Melting on Kilimanjaro
- Marlon Brando
- Elvis Presley
- Bob Dylan
- Albert Einstein
- Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Icon, Dies at Age 92
- Geothermal Energy -- Energy from the Earth's Core
- One of the World's Natural Wonders: the Grand Canyon
Advanced
- Thirsty? How 'bout a cool, refreshing cup of seawater? [This reading is also available as a glossed reading.]
- The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- The Great 1915 Eruption of Lassen Peak
- Vitamin D Deficiency Common
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Story-Building Exercises
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These exercises contain fragments of sentences which you have to put in the correct order to make a complete story.
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Text Reconstruction Exercises
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In these exercises all the letters have been replaced by asterisks. You must guess each word. If your word appears in the story, it will appear in the text. You can also press "Hint" to get only one letter at a time. The fewer incorrect answers, the higher your score. It is easier to do these exercises if you do the exercise in Story-Building format (above) first.
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Cloze Exercises
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Fill in the blanks in a reading with the missing words.
- Genetic Engineering
- Snow Melting on Mount Kilimanjaro
- The San Francisco Earthquake - Cloze Exercise 1
The gapped words in this exercise are taken from
the AWL Groups 1--10.
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Online Dictionaries
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