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News Links

CNN Newsroom for ESL--This site provides worksheets to accompany CNN Worldview broadcasts.  You videotape the segments at home or school.  The worksheets focus on grammar and vocabulary and are available in two versions: on-line and printable.

Using CNN News Video in the EFL Classroom (I-TESL-J)--Alan Mackenzie provides ideas on using CNN video segments.

Current Events--This discussion activity from Hands-on English is updated monthly.  Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to access old lessons.

Lesson for CNN Interactive: Reading, Discussion, and Writing--In this lesson from Amy Ogasawara, students use the Internet to help develop critical reading and writing skills.

Teaching Tips from the Bangkok Post--The Bangkok Post is a wonderful ESL site for students and teachers alike.  Check out their suggestions for using newspapers in ESL classes.

How Newspapers on the Internet Can Be Used for Language Teaching--Links to useful sites.

The Calgary Herald: Classroom Units--Newspaper in education units.  Although it's a native speaker teacher resource, many of the student activities are adaptable for the ESL classroom.  You can use a lot of different newspapers with these activities.

Teaching the English Newspaper Effectively--This lesson plan and student worksheet from Kenji Kitao introduces students to the format of English language newspapers.

Jigsaw Activities Using Newspapers--David Dycus provides a nicely structured lesson plan for using newspaper articles.

Funny Newspaper Headlines--from Ciaran P. McCarthy, a handout for classroom use.