Breaking News English

 

 

 

 

 

BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH

 

Breaking News English is a really useful website for English teachers . It provides interesting activities which can make an interesting lesson plan.

 

 

Sample lesson plan :

 

1. Go to http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/.

 

2. Choose a topic for your lesson. For example, ' Sandy asks new climate change questions'.

3. Play the recording. Ask students to listen and understand the gist of the recording.

4. Jumble up activity. Test students' ability to connect sentences.

5. Missing letter activity. This can be done in pair. Each pair needs to guess the missing letter of the recording text.

6. Interview questions. Teacher elicits ideas from students.

7. Students discuss their interview questions in pair.

8. Students discuss their questions with another pair.

 

 

 

 

Advantages :

 

1. Promotes autonomous learning among students. Students work in pairs in order to accomplish the activity.

2. Improves students' speaking and listening skills.

3. FREE website.

4. A new lesson will be uploades every three days.

5. Lessons are on the current issues.

6. Photocopiable lesson.

7. Lessons based on interesting themes such as health, enivironment and lifestyle.