The Reading / Listening - Squid Game - Level 0

People are trying to buy the green tracksuits and pink jumpsuits from the popular South Korean TV series "Squid Game". They want to wear them as Halloween costumes. Clothes factories in Korea are trying to make enough clothes. One factory owner said her business is better because of Squid Game and Halloween.

Squid Game is helping South Korean culture becoming popular worldwide. It is now Netflix's most watched series ever. Around 142 million people watched it in the 28 days after its release. The series is a contest between players who are in debt. They play children's games to try to win money to get out of debt.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Squid Game - Level 1 Squid Game - Level 2   or  Squid Game - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/high-demand-squid-game-tracksuits-cheers-skoreas-struggling-garment-sector-2021-10-22/
  • https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/squid-game-costumes-at-top-of-childrens-wish-lists-40984336.html
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_Game


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. trying to buy the green
  2. the popular South Korean
  3. They want to wear
  4. Halloween
  5. Clothes factories
  6. trying to make enough
  7. One factory
  8. her business is
  1. in Korea
  2. them
  3. owner
  4. TV series
  5. better
  6. costumes
  7. tracksuits
  8. clothes

Paragraph 2

  1. helping South Korean
  2. becoming popular
  3. Netflix's most watched
  4. Around 142 million people
  5. in the 28 days
  6. players who are in
  7. try to win
  8. get out
  1. series ever
  2. debt
  3. of debt
  4. worldwide
  5. money
  6. after its release
  7. culture
  8. watched it

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

People are (1) ___________________ the green tracksuits and pink jumpsuits (2) ___________________ South Korean TV series "Squid Game". They (3) ___________________ them as Halloween costumes. (4) ___________________ Korea are trying to make enough clothes. One (5) ___________________ her business is (6) ___________________ Squid Game and Halloween.

Squid Game is helping South Korean (7) ___________________ worldwide. (8) ___________________ Netflix's most watched series ever. Around 142 million (9) ___________________ in the 28 days (10) ___________________. The series is a contest between players who (11) ___________________. They play children's games to try to win (12) ___________________ out of debt.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Peoplearetryingtobuythegreentracksuitsandpinkjumpsuitsfromthe
popularSouthKoreanTVseries"SquidGame".Theywanttowearthema
sHalloweencostumes.ClothesfactoriesinKoreaaretryingtomakeeno
ughclothes.OnefactoryownersaidherbusinessisbetterbecauseofSqu
idGameandHalloween.SquidGameishelpingSouthKoreanculturebec
omingpopularworldwide.ItisnowNetflix'smostwatchedseriesever.Ar
ound142millionpeoplewatcheditinthe28daysafteritsrelease.Theseri
esisacontestbetweenplayerswhoareindebt.Theyplaychildren'sgame
stotrytowinmoneytogetoutofdebt.

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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Free writing

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Answers

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