English news can be taken as a useful material for language learning. I want to share with you a website--Breaking News English which is pretty good for English teaching and learning.
Here is the link of the website http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
What is this?
This website provides some updated news articles on current events. There are plenty of exercises centering on one piece of news from different aspects of training language skills. It offers insights on the English lesson plan for teachers and as well as gives an opportunity for learners to facilitate self-study.
The advantages of this website
- Every piece of news is attached with a MP3 recording for practicing listening.
- Exercises including gap filling, multiple choice, and questions design, which can be used as pre-reading and post-reading activities in class.
- It offers PDF version for printing handouts.
- The website also provides some interesting exercises including no letters, sentence jumble, and missing words, which strengthen students' memory and improve the ability of retelling the news.
- In the end of various exercises,a survey form for students can help teachers get feedback of the lesson and adjust next lesson accordingly.
- Some homework are suggested to encourage students continue studying after class.
- Teachers can refer to this website when preparing their lesson plan
- It is good for cooperative learning in class, esp. completing the quiz together.
- Students can practice reading skills by reading the news online and do some exercises after reading to check their learning effects.
- The website update the news articles every two days.
- the keys and the exercise are in the same page, so that students are likely to refer to the answers when they have no idea of the questions.
- the quiz only can be done or effective by using computer in class or after class.
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