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Fire at Heathrow Airport

That's News to Me

Low Int
Teens & Adults
Grades 6–12

In this lesson featuring modified content from The Associated Press, students read about how a fire near London's Heathrow Airport interrupted travel plans for hundreds of thousands of people. This lesson includes vocabulary and comprehension questions as well as a speaking task.

Focus

current events
authentic materials
reading
fire
Heathrow

Vocabulary

explosion
firefighter
damaged
crime
delay
transportion
debate
emergency
A spinning paper plane