Worksheet designed as a resource to use in Black History month to develop reading skills and to model uses of past simple.  

Make sure that students have English dictionaries if you want to do the dictionary task.

As a prediction task I showed the students a picture of Mary Seacole and asked them to discuss when they thought she lived and what she did.

I also asked them to think about what problems she had.  We then had a short discussion about discrimination.

I followed up with some past simple grammar activities. 

mary-seacole-reading-comprehension-reading-comprehension-exercises_138768.docx

Mary Seacole reading comprehension

mary-seacole-reading-comprehension

Worksheet designed as a resource to use in Black History month to develop reading skills and to model uses of past simple.  

Make sure that students have Engl…