Articles: the empty chair at our Thanksgiving table
Writing · Articles · B2 · 45 min. Read a student's magazine article about her family's Thanksgiving custom of keeping a chair for anyone who would otherwise eat alone, study how it hooks and keeps the reader, practice engaging phrases and spot sentences that sound flat, then plan and write an article about a holiday that brings people together.
About this worksheet
Read a student's magazine article about her family's Thanksgiving custom of keeping a chair for anyone who would otherwise eat alone, study how it hooks and keeps the reader, practice engaging phrases and spot sentences that sound flat, then plan and write an article about a holiday that brings people together.
- Level
- B2
- Category
- Writing
- Topic
- Articles
- Time
- About 45 minutes
- Exercises
- Reading text, True / False, Multiple choice, Gap-fill, Table to fill in, Speaking / writing task
- Answer key
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On the sheet
- Reading text: Read the article that Lucía Ramírez, 16, wrote for her school magazine
- True / False: Read the article. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
- Multiple choice: Read again. How does Lucía make her article interesting? Choose the be
- Gap-fill: Complete these sentences from other students' articles with the words
- True / False: Would these sentences work well in a lively magazine article? Circle T
- Table to fill in: Plan your article. Make notes in the table.
- Speaking / writing task: Your school magazine is collecting articles on the theme "A holiday th
