esl-lounge.com has joined forces with both published and unpublished fiction and non-fiction authors to bring you a collection of reading comprehension exercises including:

multiple choice questions
sentence gap fill
paragraph gap fill
multiple matching
subtitle gap fill

There are a lot of resources in this section to allow for the higher level classes that would like to explore in more depth a particular topic. So here subjects as diverse as 'English as a world language', 'overpopulation' and 'gun control' are examined from different points of view and students can work in groups or as a whole class to discuss and debate these subjects.

Vocabulary

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Students are often overwhelmed when they reach this level in their English studies to see the sheer volume of new vocabulary that is available to them. Here there are some worksheets to help them in their quest to use ever more natural lexical choices in their spoken and written English.

Sentence Transformations

Higher level students are asked to demonstrate a fine grasp of the finer points of the language in this exercise which requires them to transform a sentence into another with the same meaning, using different word order and one given word. This type of exercise is found in many high level exams such as Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency.

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Cloze

Cloze exercises, or gap-fill as they are often called, require students to fill in missing words in a text. Some multiple-choice cloze exercises can be found in the Vocabulary section higher up this page. The cloze exercises here give the students no choices at all and are more likely to be "grammar" words such as prepositions, quantifiers, pronouns or conjunctions.

Proficiency - Level 6

Reading Comprehensions

Themes and Topics

Vocabulary

Sentence Transformations

Cloze