What is this?
Breaking news English is a regularly updated teaching material webpage based on the current news event.
Some ideas of how we can use this website?
- Select some provided warm-up activities to arouse students' interests.
- Select some while-reading/listening exercises to guide students to read the materials.
- Select some after reading/listening exercises to do.
- Let the students to the the sentence jumble /no letter quizzes.
- Ask students to download the mp3 form and listen to the material.
Why is the content good for language learning?
- The webpage provides teachers&students with a wide variety of well designed exercises and activities which deals with listening, speaking, reading, writing,vocabulary and grammar skills.
- The materials are up-to-date and relevant to people's life, so students will find it meaningful and stimulating to learn.
- There are also a wide varieties of high quality quizzes designed in line with the materials, with which the teacher could use to strengthen students' language knowledge.
- The news materials could also be downloaded as PDF files or mp3 form.
- The exercises and activities are well organized into warm-up exercises, while-reading/listening exercises and after-reading/listening exercises, so it would be very convenient to use.
limitations
- The material is always the same genre of news events, so the learners might become unaware of other genres of English.
- It could work better by providing some visuals attached with the news materials.
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