A worksheet about global warming to practice reading for intermediate ESL students. (Free download available.)
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Global warming
My name is Amy, and today I gave a talk on global warming. I had been wanting to speak about this topic for several years, as it’s something I feel very passionate about. I presented the statistics of various factors such as pollution, rising sea levels etc, and I feel like this helped give credibility to what I was saying. I had butterflies in my stomach as I went in, but as I left the stage I felt invincible! I hope that the presentation made a difference.
The response was fantastic. Everyone was saying what a good job I did, and some even wanted to do more talks. So, now I have two more talks to give this week and now that I’ve done the first one, it should all be downhill from here (I hope!)

I. Exercise one – Fill in the blanks
1. My name is __________________________________.
a. Andy
b. Amish
c. Alan
d. Amy
2. I had __________________________________ in my stomach
a. butterflies
b. caterpillars
c. bees
d. spiders
3 .So, now I have __________________________________ more talks to give this week
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
II. Exercise two – Answer the questions
1. What did Amy speak about?
________________________________________________________________
2. How long had she wanted to speak about this topic?
________________________________________________________________
3. What is some of the information she spoke about?
________________________________________________________________
4. How did she feel when she started the presentation?
________________________________________________________________
5. How did she feel when she finished the presentation?
________________________________________________________________
III. Exercise three – Talk about yourself
1. Do you think global warming is real?
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
2. What can be done to combat global warming?
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
3. Do you do anything to fight global warming?
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
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Very useful. An update topic and a lovely text that fits the intermediate level of my students.
Really useful, thankyou.