ReadWorks. Tutoring Tips: Reading Comprehension Strategies. IELTS – 3 Reading Strategies. Brokeback Mountain. Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter the years of things unsaid and now unsayable—admissions, declarations, shames, guilts, fears—rose around them. Ennis stood as if heart-shot, face gray and deep-lined, grimacing, eyes screwed shut, fists clenched, legs caving, hit the ground on his knees. “Jesus,” said Jack. “Ennis?” But before he was out of the truck, trying to guess if it was a heart attack or the overflow of an incendiary rage, Ennis was back on his feet, and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they’d said was no news.
Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved. What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger. “He buried down there?” Short Stories - A-G. Download and read short stories from acclaimed writers and authors. Some stories were orginally published in other publications, some were shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Awards and some are exclusive to the Book Trust website. The list below features writers from A to G. The 10 Best Short Stories You've Never Read | Arna Bontemps Hemenway. One thing that's great about short stories is how quickly they can ruin your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it's the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then rebuilt, and nothing is quite the same again.
This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this violent beauty on you in a variety of ways: some by making an absurd world familiar (or vice versa), some with a slow burn, some with a voice that colonizes your thoughts. Some do it quietly, almost without you even noticing, and some do it with high wire acts of imagination or intellect that make you into a breathless witness. The trick, then, is finding the right story, one that is capable of such a thing. This is no easy task. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Short stories: teaching resources. The Study Rooms at East of the Web are a place where teachers can create custom word list and quiz-based games for their students. You can create your own word lists for your students or use a growing list of word lists that come with your study room. The study rooms also provide an extensive set of reports so students and teachers can monitor progress.
Setting up a study room Setting up a study room simple. Once you have created the new study room, you will be logged in - or you can come back later and log in using your new study room name, user name and password. After you have created the new study room, you can log in here: Help with using the study rooms - how to add word lists and games, how to give access to your students - is available when you are logged in. The following games are available for use in the study rooms: "ESL English as a Second Language Listening and Reading Audiobooks".
Reading Comprehension - Free Worksheets. Home- English- Math - Reading - Research - Keys - Newsworthy - Links - Contact Reading Comprehension, Volume 5: Number 32, Word Meanings From Context Number 31, The Painting Number 30, Word Meanings From Context Number 29, Charity, Poem Number 28, Word Meanings From Context Number 27, Mysteries Number 26, As I Awake, Poem Number 25, Democracy and Freedom Number 24, Modest Requirements Number 23, Martin's St. Number 22, Word Meanings From Context Number 21, Word Meanings From Context Number 20, Word Meanings From Context Number 19, You, Poem Number 18, Word Meanings in Context - Antonyms Number 17, Winter Heat Number 16, Word Meanings From Context - Synonyms Number 15, Word Meanings From Context Number 14, The Presidential Campaign Number 13, Memories, Poem Number 12, Word Meanings From Context Number 11, Campaign Finance Reform Number 10, Simple Math Number 9, Fashion Blues Number 8, Word Meanings From Context Number 7, Thank You Sincerely, Poem Number 6, Treasure, Part IV Number 5, Treasure, Part III.