This week most of us have found the same pearl :) I guess: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ .
Actually, I liked this site a lot because it has almost everything I'd like to see in an online material.
1.up-to-date news stories shortened, and simplified
2.have a taped version of the story
3. miscellaneous post reading activities
4. recycling vocabulary practice
5.discussion questions to be used both for oral or written practice
I have already used one of the stories in my class. And to be honest, I decided to use the story spontaneously, our class discussion brought us there ...the story was about "Wall Street Occupation" and for the first time, with an online material, I had a great class without any preparation beforehand.
Later, I decided to use this site with one of my project classes. I had already created a Nicenet class for my project. But I was having difficulty finding discussion topics for the students. Now, what I am doing is that I assigned them to read one news story and at least answer 2 of the following discussion questions provided on the site after the comprehension exercises on our conferencing board on the Nicenet. I'll see what will happen this this time...because none of them answered my first question before :(
Aren't students the same everwhere, their characteristics are free of location, time and space :) I believe.
Hello Sebnem,
ReplyDeleteYou are right when you said that students tend to be the same everywhere in the world. I sometimes get dissapointed because I work hard to do new things and they continue being indifferent.
Good luck!
Letty
Hi Sebnem,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that BreakingNews English is a real pearl. I use it quite a lot in my classes, too.
Donna