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Geographical Media

     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 [...]

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Do you enjoy reading… news?

     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 [...]

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Extra! Extra! – Using Online Newspapers in the Classroom

The use of authentic material, such as news articles, in the ESL/EFL classroom has turned the newspaper into a powerful tool for encouraging participation and effective sharing of opinions and knowledge, since it covers a wide range of current topics. In addition, online newspapers provide a unique opportunity of getting inmediate issues of interest to [...]

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