Science writing
Reading · C2 · 9 printable sheets, each with an answer key.
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- Sheet 1 · 20 minScience writing: explaining a processFollow a popular-science explanation of how tiny tardigrades survive extreme conditions, and check key facts and ideas.Free
- Sheet 2 · 20 minScience writing: hedging claimsRead a report on sleep and memory and notice how careful writers signal exactly how sure they are.Premium
- Sheet 3 · 20 minScience writing: judging evidenceTest a headline about music and tomato plants against the study behind it, and learn the key terms of research design.Premium
- Sheet 4 · 20 minScience writing: explaining by analogySee how a science writer uses everyday analogies to explain why satellite navigation depends on Einstein's relativity.Premium
- Sheet 5 · 20 minScience writing: academic vocabulary and word formationBuild precise scientific words from stems, learn research collocations and choose appropriately cautious language.Premium
- Sheet 6 · 20 minScience writing: paper to headlineA challenge: judge which headlines fairly report a research abstract on walking and mood, then write an accurate news summary.Premium
- Sheet 7 · 45 minScience writing: bird navigationHow migrating birds navigate by sun, stars and the Earth's magnetic field, with questions on explanation, evidence and hedging.Premium
- Sheet 8 · 45 minScience writing: the whale pumpHow whales fertilize the ocean and why their loss mattered, with questions on meaning, evidence and the writer's stance.Premium
- Sheet 9 · 50 minScience writing: what gratitude research can and cannot tell usA critical article on the science of gratitude, from the gratitude-journal studies to brain scans and the popular claim that thanks 'rewires the brain'; students evaluate the evidence, learn research terms, fix misleading headlines and write a letter to the editor.Premium
