The Reading / Listening - Bluesky - Level 0

The social media site Bluesky is growing quickly. It became popular after the U.S. Presidential Election. Many people are using Bluesky instead of X. Bluesky is the most downloaded free app in Apple's app store. Bluesky looks and feels like Twitter. It has a fresh feel and gives users more control.

Bluesky started as a Twitter project in 2019. It is similar to Twitter. Even the logos are similar. Twitter's was a blue bird; Bluesky has a blue butterfly. The name Bluesky is like free speech. Bluesky users can get posts they are interested in. They can choose to have only posts that have cat photos.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Bluesky - Level 1 Bluesky - Level 2   or  Bluesky - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.cnet.com/tech/bluesky-explained-why-this-social-media-network-is-now-growing-by-1-million-users-daily/
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/17/bluesky-musk-trump-x-twitter-authoritarian-world
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. The social media
  2. Bluesky is growing
  3. It became
  4. after the U.S. Presidential
  5. people are using Bluesky instead
  6. the most downloaded
  7. Bluesky looks and feels
  8. It has a fresh
  1. like Twitter
  2. popular
  3. of X
  4. free app
  5. quickly
  6. feel
  7. Election
  8. site

Paragraph 2

  1. Bluesky started
  2. It is similar
  3. Even the logos are
  4. Bluesky has
  5. The name Bluesky is like free
  6. get posts they are
  7. They can choose to
  8. cat
  1. similar
  2. speech
  3. photos
  4. interested in
  5. as a Twitter project
  6. have only posts
  7. to Twitter
  8. a blue butterfly

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

The (1) ___________________ Bluesky is growing quickly. It became (2) ___________________ U.S. Presidential Election. Many (3) ___________________ Bluesky instead of X. Bluesky (4) ___________________ downloaded free app in Apple's app store. Bluesky (5) ___________________ like Twitter. It has a fresh feel and gives (6) ___________________.

Bluesky (7) ___________________ Twitter project in 2019. It (8) ________________ Twitter. Even the (9) _________________. Twitter's was a blue bird; Bluesky has a blue butterfly. The name Bluesky is (10) ___________________. Bluesky users can get posts they (11) ___________________. They can choose to have (12) ___________________ have cat photos.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

ThesocialmediasiteBlueskyisgrowingquickly.Itbecamepopularaftert
heU.S.PresidentialElection.ManypeopleareusingBlueskyinsteadofX.
BlueskyisthemostdownloadedfreeappinApple'sappstore.Blueskyloo
ksandfeelslikeTwitter.Ithasafreshfeelandgivesusersmorecontrol.Bl
ueskystartedasaTwitterprojectin2019.ItissimilartoTwitter.Eventhel
ogosaresimilar.Twitter'swasabluebird;Blueskyhasabluebutterfly.Th
enameBlueskyislikefreespeech.Blueskyuserscangetpoststheyareint
erestedin.Theycanchoosetohaveonlypoststhathavecatphotos.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

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Answers

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