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News and Articles

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News & articles

 

General news sources

 

 

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

 

 

  • SMH Good Weekend magazine

 

  • Local street press

 

Specific news lessons/articles

 

  • 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
  • "Wi-fi, dual-flush loos, and 8 more Australian inventions" by Phil Mercer, BBC News Magazine, 8 Nov 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20071644 Great article with bite-size chunks and pictures - ideal for prediction, jigsaw reading, and extension activities (great/kooky inventions [from your country], passive, future forms, presentations, interviews, trip to Powerhouse Museum etc)
     

 

 

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