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Michael Jackson – Beat It
 
     Michael Jackson, an incomparable figure in music, dance and culture whose ever-changing face graced the covers of albums that sold more than half a billion copies, died Thursday, shortly after going into cardiac arrest at his rented Holmby Hills mansion. He was 50. He spent much of his life [...]

     Geographical Media is a news monitoring tool designed to make it easy to follow news and find statistics about the people, places and other things you are most interested in. We read thousands of news articles a day from news sources from all around the world and identify who, what and where they are [...]

 
     The Japan’s lunar explorer “KAGUYA”, which is now in the extended operational phase, has been carrying out observations of the Moon from lower altitude since February 1, 2009, to continue observations in more detail.
     The “KAGUYA” will conclude its scientific mission to the Moon through a controlled impact on the lunar surface.
 

English History by Period

     This Wikipedia Selection for Schools is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).
     This selection of topics [...]

     This is the time of the year when students feel overwhelmed with work and are usually in a hurry for learning the properties of chemical elements.
     If they are studying in a center where Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is being carried out, these two webs will be undoubtedly of big help.  

     Portsmouth’s D-Day Museum is Britain’s only museum dedicated solely to covering all aspects of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944. D-Day was a turning point in the Second World War, and a moment when the course of world events depended on the Allied troops taking part.
 
     What does the “D” [...]

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“Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition”

     In a previous post, we analysed the different activities we can arrange to include in a lesson plan dealing with newspapers, news articles, and headlines.  

Diversity win Britain’s Got Talent

     Perhaps, the hardest aspect when choosing real material is that of the linguistic adecuacy to our students’ level of competence.
     In such a case, real texts intended [...]