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The worksheets provide activities for four of the articles and interviews published in SPEAK UP every month. Though mainly designed for teachers using the articles in the classroom, they can also be used with individual students. Most of the activities in the worksheets are also suitable for autonomous learners or anyone wishing to improve their reading and listening skills in English. The activities, like the articles they relate to, are graded in accordance with the CEF system developed by the Council of Europe, and range from Pre-intermediate Level (CEF A2) to Advanced Level (CEF C1).

Each worksheet contains the following:

- a warm-up activity (Before you start) to get students thinking and talking about the topic. This will stimulate interest in it, familiarise them with some of the vocabulary contained in the article or interview, and make the reading and/or listening task easier.

- reading and listening tasks (Listen and answer/Read and answer) based on the articles and interviews. These are designed to develop various reading and listening sub-skills, like reading/listening for main ideas, reading/listening for specific information, reading/listening for precise details, and so on. As they are authentic, the recorded interviews may sometimes be graded at a higher level than the articles that accompany them. When this happens, the listening activity in the worksheet will require students to do a fairly simple task, like identifying the main points in the interview.