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ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on "Pride Month"

This ESL EFL (English Second or Foreign Language) Teaching Resource on "Pride Month" (3 PDF Slides; Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity) can be ideal to train Language skills in English. Suitable participants for this ESL EFL TESOL Reading + Writing Activity are Foreign Students at middle and High School (7th-12th Grade; teens). Newcomers or any ESL Learner is also more than suitable for this ESL EFL (English as a Second or Foreign Language) Activity on "Pride Month" (Month-long observance dedicated to the LGBTQ+ Community; origins and background with the Stonewall Riots + evolution). This Teaching Educational Resource Product can also be ideal for ESL EFL Centers worldwide or any English second language tutor.

This ESL EFL TESOL Teaching Resource on "Pride Month" (Worksheet; 3 PDF Printable slides) can be ideal for Intermediat Advanced English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL) Learners.

Within this English Second or Foreign Language (ESL EFL) Reading Comprehension + Essay Writing Activity Worksheet on "Pride Month" (Month-long observance dedicated to the LGBTQ+ Community; origins and background with the Stonewall Riots + evolution), ESL EFL TESOL teachers can find the following activities:

1 text on "Pride Month" (Month-long observance dedicated to the LGBTQ+ Community; origins and background with the Stonewall Riots + evolution)
12 Questions (with related space where students can answer)
2 essay prompts for a writing activity (writing an essay on whether your own home country or city organizes a Pride Parade or other events dedicated to the LGBTQ+ Community and whether your own home country or city is open and tolerant towards such issues + writing an essay on whether you believe Pride Month can be an important reminder of LGBTQ+ rights or not and why)

This ESL, EFL (English Second or Foreign Language) Teaching Resource Reading + Writing Activity on "Pride Month" (Month-long observance dedicated to the LGBTQ+ Community; origins and background with the Stonewall Riots + evolution) is great for Intermediate Advanced English as a second or foreign language learners (ESL- EFL). This English Second Language Worksheet on "Pride Month" (Month-long observance dedicated to the LGBTQ+ Community; origins and background with the Stonewall Riots + evolution) aims to train and Reading Comprehension + Writing Skills.

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What's included

A history section covering the Stonewall Inn raid of 28 June 1969, the riots that followed, and the first Pride march held on their anniversary
A first-person report from a Pride parade in San Francisco quoting three named marchers: Sofia Martinez (28, teacher), Michael Wozniak (63, activist at the first New York march) and Jamie Nguyen (19, university student)
Twelve written-response questions with ruled answer lines on a single worksheet page
Three vocabulary items: explaining "reminder", explaining the verb phrase "to raise awareness", and writing three synonyms of "joyful"
Three true-or-false statements, each followed by the instruction "Argue your answer from the text"
Two numbered essay prompts, the first on Pride events in the student's own city or country, the second on whether Pride Month is an important reminder of LGBTQ+ rights

Resource types: Worksheets & Printables, Writing Prompts, Worksheets

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Locate specific facts in a longer informational passage, including the date and place of the Stonewall raid and what happened one year afterwards
Judge a statement true or false and justify the verdict by pointing to the wording of the text
Explain the meaning of an unfamiliar word or phrase in the student's own words and supply synonyms for it
Attribute quoted opinions to the right speaker among three interviewees who take different positions on how Pride has changed
Write an extended opinion essay that states a position and supports it with reasons and examples

Teaching tips

The reading runs across two pages before any question appears, so students can read it uninterrupted first and only then be given the question page
Three of the twelve questions are true-or-false with a written justification, which makes them useful for practising the sentence frames a learner needs to quote and paraphrase evidence
Question ordering follows the passage, so a class can work through the reading and the questions in parallel paragraph by paragraph
The two essay prompts ask for different things - a description of the student's own country and a personal argument - so they can be split between two lessons or offered as a choice
Both essay prompts invite students to write about their own country's attitudes, which is worth previewing with the class where that subject is sensitive

Skills covered

Scanning for detail - questions ask when and where the Stonewall raid took place and what happened a year later, each answerable from a named paragraph of the passage.
Justifying a true-or-false judgement - three statements, including one about the original name of the march, carry the instruction "Argue your answer from the text".
Vocabulary in context - students explain "reminder" and "to raise awareness" in their own words and produce three synonyms for "joyful".
Inference from combined details - identifying which interviewee has marched for a decade means putting Sofia Martinez's age of 28 together with her first Pride at 18.
Opinion essay writing - the second prompt asks students to state whether Pride Month is an important reminder and to support that view with reasons or examples.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Which named speakers does the reading quote?

Three, chosen to span generations: Sofia Martinez, a 28-year-old teacher who first marched at 18; Michael Wozniak, a 63-year-old activist who was at the first New York march when it was still called the Christopher Street Liberation Day March; and Jamie Nguyen, a 19-year-old university student attending a first Pride event.

How do the two essay prompts differ?

The first is descriptive and local: whether the student's own city or country holds Pride marches or other events, who takes part, and how people react. The second is argumentative: whether Pride Month is an important reminder of LGBTQ+ rights, and whether raising awareness is still necessary, supported by reasons or examples.

Do any of the questions need working out rather than copying?

Several do. One asks which interviewee has been taking part in Pride parades for a decade, which requires combining Sofia Martinez's stated age of 28 with her first Pride at 18; the three true-or-false items each require a justification drawn from the text rather than a one-word verdict.