Louvre Shuts Down

That's News to Me

High Int
Teens & Adults
Grades 6–12

In this lesson featuring modified content from The Associated Press, students read about how staff at Paris's Louvre Museum went on strike due to overcrowding, understaffing, and poor working conditions caused by mass tourism. This lesson includes a photo, a vocabulary review, comprehension questions, and a speaking task.

Focus

current events
authentic materials
reading
Louvre
tourism

Vocabulary

unexpectedly
conditions
department
unbearable
protest
attract
ignore
announce
donation
improvement
A spinning paper plane