Name: ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on Los Angeles
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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on Los Angeles

Enhance your English Second or Foreign Language Classes with this amazing ESL resource focused on "Los Angeles" (City in the State of California). In this fantastic teaching resource there are included 3 PDF slides designed for reading comprehension + writing activities, making it perfect for developing language skills in English. Ideal for middle and high school students (from 7th grade to 12th grade) and suitable for newcomers or any ESL learner, this resource is tailored for intermediate English learners.

This ESL EFL TESOL Teaching Resource on "Los Angeles" (Worksheet; 3 PDF Printable slides) can be ideal for intermediate English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners.

Within this fantastic ESL EFL TESOL Reading Comprehension + Essay Writing Activity Worksheet on Los Angeles (City in the state of California), English Second or Foreign Language Teachers and educators can find the following ESL activities:

1 text on Los Angeles (city in the state of Califronia)
15 Questions (with space for answers)
1 Essay Prompts (imagining to go to visit Los Angeles for a weekend and to write about your experience in 3 pages of diary; one each day)

This ESL, EFL, and TESOL teaching resource is a Reading and Writing activity focused on "Los Angeles" (city in the state of California) and comes in three printable PDF slides. It's designed for intermediate learners of English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) to enhance their reading comprehension and writing skills.

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What's included

A two-page informational article on Los Angeles with a Student's Name line at the top (pages 1-2)
Passage sections on the city's location in a Southern California basin, its 502 square miles, its beaches, hills and mountains, and its Mediterranean climate of mild wet winters and hot dry summers
A history section running from the Tongva and Chumash tribes through Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542, the 1781 Spanish founding as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles, Mexican independence in 1821, the 1848 cession to the United States, and the oil and railroad boom
Landmark sections on Venice Beach, the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry, Hollywood Boulevard with its 2,600-plus Walk of Fame stars, and the Griffith Observatory
A food and activities section naming Olvera Street, the Grand Central Market, Malibu, Runyon Canyon, the Santa Monica Pier, the Getty Center and LACMA
Two short interview quotations closing the article - Maria, a tourist from Spain, and Jake, a lifelong Angeleno
Fifteen comprehension questions on page 3, each with a ruled answer line
Two vocabulary-in-context questions among them, on the verb "to soak" and the noun "awe"
A true-or-false question carrying the instruction to argue the answer from the text
A closing writing task: imagine a weekend in Los Angeles from Friday to Sunday and write a page of diary for each day, covering sights, activities, hotel, food, experiences and emotions

Resource types: Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Retrieve specific facts from an informational article, including dates, place names and the people connected with them
Work out the meaning of a word from its surrounding context rather than from a dictionary, using "to soak" and "awe" as they appear in the passage
Judge a claim as true or false and support the judgement with evidence taken from the text
Explain a cause given in the text - why Los Angeles grew into a flourishing city - rather than only naming an event
Produce a three-part narrative diary describing an imagined weekend, with sights, activities and personal reactions

Teaching tips

The fifteen questions follow the passage in the order the article presents its material, so students can work down the page alongside the text rather than searching back and forth
Questions 9 and 15 are the vocabulary items and depend on the surrounding sentences, so they are worth modelling first - "soak in the lively atmosphere" and "expressed her awe" both need the whole phrase to make sense
The true-or-false question about US dominion asks students to argue from the text, which makes it the natural one to take as a whole-class discussion before the written answers
Two named speakers close the article, which gives a ready route into reported speech or opinion language for a follow-up lesson
The diary task specifies three separate days and a list of details to include, so it works as an extended homework piece rather than an end-of-lesson add-on
Several questions and the writing prompt carry non-standard English - "What touristic attraction", "Imagine to spend a weekend" - which is worth checking before the sheet is handed to learners working on accuracy

Skills covered

Reading for specific information - questions ask what borders the city, which climate it has, who the native peoples were and who designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall, each answerable from a named part of the passage.
Vocabulary in context - two questions ask what "to soak" and "awe" mean where they appear, rather than in isolation.
Evidence-based judgement - the true-or-false item about Los Angeles always having been part of US dominion carries the instruction to argue the answer from the text, which the history section contradicts.
Reading a historical sequence - the passage moves from the Tongva and Chumash through 1542, 1781, 1821 and 1848 to the 20th-century film industry, and three questions test points along that line.
Narrative writing from a prompt - the closing task sets a page of diary for each of three days with named elements to include, from sights and activities to hotel, food and emotions.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Which of the fifteen questions go beyond straight retrieval?

Three. The true-or-false item on whether Los Angeles has always been part of US dominion tells students to argue their answer from the text. Two others ask what "to soak" and "awe" mean in the context they appear in, so they test inference from surrounding wording rather than recall of a fact.

What does the writing task ask students to produce?

A three-day diary. Students imagine a weekend in Los Angeles from Friday to Sunday and write a page for each day, saying what they would do, which sights they would visit and which activities they would take part in, with details such as hotel and food alongside their experiences and emotions.

Does the article include any voices from the city itself?

Two, near the end. Maria, described as a tourist from Spain, says Los Angeles is "like a movie set come to life" and names Hollywood Boulevard and the Griffith Observatory. Jake, a lifelong Angeleno, praises the blend of cultures and the food from every part of the world. One comprehension question works directly from Maria's comparison.