The Reading / Listening - Retirement - Level 0

Many people want to retire overseas. A lifestyle magazine said Greece was the best place they found for 2026. The magazine looked at what was important for people who wanted to retire overseas. These included the climate and the cost of living. It is the first time for Greece to be the number-one choice.

Greece is "beautiful, welcoming, and affordable". A Greek website said people love Greece because of its beauty. It has a beautiful coastline, lots of sunshine, great countryside, mountains, and paradise islands. A woman who moved to Greece four years ago loves the Greek way of taking life slowly.

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Sources
  • https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/01/greece-named-world-number-one-retirement-destination/
  • https://www.newsweek.com/greece-worlds-top-retirement-destination-how-americans-can-move-there-11124134
  • https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/01/travel/worlds-best-retirement-destinations-2026


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. Many people want to retire
  2. a lifestyle
  3. Greece was the best place they
  4. The magazine looked at what
  5. These included
  6. the cost
  7. It is the first
  8. the number-
  1. time for Greece
  2. was important
  3. one choice
  4. the climate
  5. overseas
  6. found
  7. of living
  8. magazine

Paragraph 2

  1. Greece is beautiful, welcoming,
  2. people love Greece because
  3. It has a beautiful
  4. lots
  5. paradise
  6. A woman who moved
  7. the Greek
  8. taking life
  1. to Greece
  2. coastline
  3. slowly
  4. islands
  5. way
  6. of sunshine
  7. of its beauty
  8. and affordable

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Many people want (1) _________________________________________________. A lifestyle magazine said Greece was (2) _________________________________________________ they found for 2026. The magazine (3) _________________________________________________ was important for people who wanted (4) _________________________________________________. These included the climate and the (5) _________________________________________________. It is the first time for Greece to be the (6) _________________________________________________.

Greece (7) _________________________________________________, and affordable". A Greek website said people love Greece (8) _________________________________________________ beauty. It has a beautiful coastline, (9) _________________________________________________, great countryside, mountains, (10) _________________________________________________. A woman who moved to Greece (11) _________________________________________________ loves the Greek way of (12) _________________________________________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Manypeoplewanttoretireoverseas.AlifestylemagazinesaidGreecewa
sthebestplacetheyfoundfor2026.Themagazinelookedatwhatwasim
portantforpeoplewhowantedtoretireoverseas.Theseincludedthecli
mateandthecostofliving.ItisthefirsttimeforGreecetobethenumber-
onechoice.Greeceis"beautiful,welcoming,andaffordable".AGreekwe
bsitesaidpeopleloveGreecebecauseofitsbeauty.Ithasabeautifulcoas
tline,lotsofsunshine,greatcountryside,mountains,andparadiseislan
ds.AwomanwhomovedtoGreecefouryearsagolovestheGreekwayoft
akinglifeslowly.

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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