The Reading / Listening - The Colour Blue - Level 0

Everyone has a favourite colour. A new study from the BBC found the most common favourite is blue. It also said people change the colours they like as they get older. Many people like darker colours the older they become. The BBC said dark yellowish-brown was the world's least liked colour.

Blue has been a favourite colour since the 1800s. We have positive feelings about blue. Many colours in nature are blue. A blue sky makes people happy. A negative feeling about blue is in the English language. In English, people say they are "feeling blue". This means they feel sad. Many people like the colour of their favourite team.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    The Colour Blue - Level 1 The Colour Blue - Level 2   or  The Colour Blue - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220601-what-your-favourite-colour-says-about-you
  • https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40207932/why-blue-is-probably-your-favorite-color/
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/blue-is-probably-your-favorite-color-heres-why-according-to-science/ar-AAY9c7t


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. Everyone has a
  2. the most
  3. people change the colours
  4. as they get
  5. Many people like darker
  6. the older they
  7. dark yellowish-
  8. the world's least
  1. liked colour
  2. they like
  3. become
  4. favourite colour
  5. brown
  6. common
  7. colours
  8. older

Paragraph 2

  1. a favourite colour since
  2. We have positive
  3. Many colours in
  4. A blue sky makes
  5. the English
  6. people say they are
  7. This means they
  8. the colour of their
  1. "feeling blue"
  2. nature are blue
  3. feel sad
  4. the 1800s
  5. favourite team
  6. people happy
  7. language
  8. feelings

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Everyone (1) ___________________ colour. A new study from the BBC (2) ___________________ favourite is blue. It also said (3) ___________________ colours they like (4) ___________________ older. Many people like darker colours the (5) ___________________. The BBC said dark yellowish-brown was the world's (6) ___________________.

Blue has been a favourite (7) ___________________ 1800s. We have positive (8) ___________________. Many colours in nature are blue. A blue (9) ___________________ happy. A negative feeling about blue is in (10) ___________________. In English, people (11) ___________________ "feeling blue". This means they feel sad. Many people like the colour (12) ___________________ team.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Everyonehasafavouritecolour.AnewstudyfromtheBBCfoundthemos
tcommonfavouriteisblue.Italsosaidpeoplechangethecolourstheylike
astheygetolder.Manypeoplelikedarkercolourstheoldertheybecome.
TheBBCsaiddarkyellowish-brownwastheworld'sleastlikedcolour.B
luehasbeenafavouritecoloursincethe1800s.Wehavepositivefeelings
aboutblue.Manycoloursinnatureareblue.Ablueskymakespeoplehap
py.AnegativefeelingaboutblueisintheEnglishlanguage.InEnglish,pe
oplesaytheyare"feelingblue".Thismeanstheyfeelsad.Manypeoplelik
ethecolouroftheirfavouriteteam.

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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