News

General news sources

• ABC News in 90 seconds

• Behind the News (ABC) - subscribe; use their worksheets; do impromptu who, what, where, when etc.

• ABC local radio – good to refer to places your students know

• SMH Good Weekend magazine

• Local street press

Specific news lessons

• Plain packaging of cigarettes:
• 'Australia First Country to Introduce Plain Cigarette Packets' (Dec 3, 2012) from BBC News & The Guardian, written by @EngNewsLessons. Lower-int level. Includes pre-, while- and post-reading tasks (download the PDF version for a better look) http://www.englishnewslessons.com/lessons/2012/december/03122012a.html#.UL2Cv-2Jued
• There's a Behind the News episode on this too: Cigarette Changes (Sep 4, 2012) with transcript, related links and activities, and lots of student comments on the program. 
• Do you believe everything you read online?
  I heard about this recent April Fools Day joke at the Virtual Round Table (VRT) Conference and thought it would be a great idea for a digital literacy activity:
  Google Street Roo - exploring the outback one bounce at a time