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Louvre Shuts Down

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 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

on strike
tourist
security
crowded
stressful
limit
overlook
damaged
A spinning paper plane