English Skills in Use – Secondary Students

The workbook is designed to help the student improve their reading and writing skills at the lower to middle stage of secondary school. All passages have a science or social studies base and are designed to improve skills in reading, comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure.

Answers provided.

Contents

• Why do earthquakes happen?
• Can fish fly?
• What was the phoenix?
• What is artificial silk?
• When did newspapers first appear?
• What is a cataract of the eye?
• What are fingerprints?
• Do plants go to sleep?
• What was the sword of Damocles?
• What happens when we become tired?
• How was steel first made?
• What was the Mayflower?
• What is a virus?
• Why were Salamis and Marathon important?
• What is nature’s most wonderful food?
• Who was La Perouse?
• What is a sloth?
• What is a volcano?
• What is the ‘missing link’?
• What is radar?
• Can metal become tired?
• How did the piano evolve?
• What are the cedars of Lebanon?
• What is a folk song?
• How fast do animals travel?
• What is the great hole in the Kalahari Desert?
• What happens to all the gold in the world?
• What was the most epic voyage of discovery?
• Why do humans have a large skull?
• Which animal is most like an army tank?
• When was the first atomic bomb used in war?
• What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
• How was fire discovered?
• What was the Magna Carta?
• Who were the first sea travellers?
• Who was Holland’s greatest portrait painter?
• Who was Samson?
• Why did Venice become famous?
• What can we learn from old diaries?
• What is a sceptic?
• Why is electricity so remarkable?
• What happened to all the wild bears?
• Who was Rip van Winkle?
• Where did fairy-tales come from?
• What was the French Revolution?