Workbook Lessons

Offline Weekly Rosetta Stone or Printable Workbook Lessons

Overview

Every week you finish these 4 things:

• An online Reading Circle topic and discussion.
• An online Self-Study Site activity.
• An offline Rosetta Stone or Printable Workbook Lesson.
• Your Weekly Report and Work Plan.

Weekly Offline Self-Study Assignments: Rosetta Stone or Workbook Lesson

This section of the website has two choices for offline self-study activities. You should choose one of these things to do each week:

1. Rosetta Stone Software: If your school has Rosetta Stone and if you find this software useful, you can choose to do one or more lessons every week. You can choose from Levels 1, 2 or 3.
2. Workbook: If there is no Rosetta Stone available to you or if you do not want to do it, you can complete a workbook lesson each week.

Workbook Lessons

Print and do the Spring 2009 workbook lessons (answers included for self-checking at the end of each lesson):

• Internet Helps Families Stay More in Touch.
• World Record for 80 Years of Marriage.
• U.S. Woman Gives Birth to 8 Babies.
• Hip-Hop is History at American Museum.
• Abu Dhabi (UAE) Camel Festival.
• Tom Cruise’s Son Makes Movie Debut.
• Keep Warm to Avoid Colds: Scientists.
• Vegetarian Diet Reduces Cancer Risk.

Print and do the Winter 2009 workbook lessons you which interest you below. Check your work with the answer key when you are finished with each one.

Articles in simplified format with answer keys:

• The Computer Mouse Turns 40. Check your work with the answer key.
• Television Shoes. Check your work with the answer key.
• Romantic Love Lasts Only 1 Year. Check your work with the answer key.
• World’s Heaviest Man Plans to Marry. Check your work with the answer key.
• London to Ban Plastic Bags. Check your work with the answer key.
• Disappearing Rivers. Check your work with the answer key.
• Acupuncture (Stop Smoking). Check your work with the answer key.

Articles in simplified format with answer keys, plus audio (listening) files and listening exercises:

• Oprah Winfrey Most Powerful Woman. Check your work with the answer key.
  You can also download an audio file for that reading and the related listening exercise.
• Australians Happiest People in the World. Check your work with the answer key.You can also download an audio file for that reading and the related listening exercise.
• Internet Trade Threatens Exotic Animals. Check your work with the answer key.
  You can also download an audio file for that reading and the related listening exercise.
• Scientists Test Wi-Tricity – Wireless Electricity. Check your work with the answer key.
  You can also download an audio file for that reading and the related listening exercise.
• Irish Woman in $135 Million Lottery Win. Check your work with the answer key.
  You can also download an audio file for that reading and the related listening exercise.

Articles in both simplified and original formats with answer keys, plus some with interactive activities:

• Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. Vocabulary Quiz. Check your work with the answer key.
• MLK Jr. Workbook Lesson, Keeping the Dream. (You can also read the original article Volunteers Keep the Dream Alive.) Check your work with the answer key.
• 7 Wonders of the World. (You can also read the full original article if you would like.) Check your work with the: Answer key.
  Also available for “7 Wonders of the World…”
  Gap-fill (cloze) exercise (right-click to download, or click to do online), or in printable PDF format. Check your work with the answer key.
• New Year’s Resolution – Simple (version 1, simplified). Check your work with the answer key.
  New Year’s Resolutions – Original (version 2, not simplified). Check your work with the answer key.
  Also available for “New Years Resolution…”
  Cloze exercise (right-click to download, or click to do online).
  Crossword puzzle (right-click to download, or click to do online), or in printable PDF format. Check your work with the answer key.