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Louvre Shuts Down

That's News to Me

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Teens & Adults
Grades 6–12

In this lesson featuring 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

endurance
paralyzed
corral
displace
untenable
infrastructure
enigmatic
hypocritical
limbo
watertight
exasperation
A spinning paper plane