Students are more than eager to discuss current events, which you have reported to us in the recent survey. In response, we are going to help you introduce the news into your classroom. Keep reading to discover what we’ve come up with.🙂
You request – we provide!
We’re happy to introduce News for Classroom Use: a weekly post with a selected piece of news and activities based on it, which you can use as a warm-up, a filler or a wrap-up task. The posts include: the news summary, discussion questions, tasks around headlines and images, comments to respond to, glossaries, links to related ESL Brains lesson plans, and many more.
Where to find the posts
They are very easy to find! Just go to the menu tab called ‘News for Classroom Use’.
You’ll be taken to the page with the posts and you will find the most current news at the top. When browsing the posts, use the images to find the category that is likely to interest your students. Are they into Tech talk, Celebrity scoop or Culture vibes? Or perhaps they’d go for World explorer, Sports beat and Science buzz? Remember that the news covered in the posts range from breaking news to more evergreen content which you will be able to go back to according to your students’ needs.
How to use News for Classroom Use
The post has several parts:
SUMMARY: A short paragraph with the news which helps you decide if it’s something your students might be interested in. It’s also the text you read out to students and the activities below specify when to read it exactly.
ACTIVITIES: Tasks for students to work on. Each post contains a set of questions related to the news. You might ask students to discuss all of them or just some of them. Other activities include completing headlines, commenting on pictures or a short video, simple guessing games, reporting what students have heard about the news, etc.
EXTRA: Each post contains a link to an article in which the news is covered. Use it as a reference to learn more details if needed. Ask students to use the vocabulary from the glossary while talking about the news. The post might also provide a link to an ESL Brains lesson connected with the topic, which you might decide to follow up with.
Browse News for Classroom Use
If you are an Unlimited or a Premium user, you can immediately jump to ‘News for Classroom Use’ posts. And make sure to check what’s new every week!
If you are a Free user and want to see what the posts look like in detail, check out these two:
Enjoy discussing the news with your students!
This is amazing! Thank you!
Wow, that’s great! It can become a stand alone lesson! Thanks!
We’re happy you find this idea useful 🙂
Great idea! Thanks a lot!
This is a fantastic addition to our materials! Thanks a lot!
Hope it makes your life easier 🙂
Fantastic, Looking forward to using it with my students
Perfect! We’ll send the newsletter weekly so remember to check them out for fresh news 🙂
Hello,
Can you please tell me where I can find these lessons on the home page.
Thank you,
Barbara
Hi! You can’t find these activities anywhere on the website. We send them by email only every Wednesday.
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
Hi, I sent my subscription, however, I’ve not received the confirmation e-mail since:/ I’m an Unlimited Plan user..
Anna, you didn’t have to do it, because you were already subscribed to the newsletter and so you were already getting these emails 🙂
Thank you so much, Stan 🙂
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
Love this! it’s so hard trying to find news articles for our students. This could even be a section on the website like “lesson sets” “news”
Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll think about it 🙂
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
This is great but how do I access the article. The dynamic link in the email didn’t work for me. Thanks!
Hi Dedene! Can you paste the link that didn’t work for you here or send me an email? This way I can help you figure this out.
Hi Stan, I’ve just sent you an email with an example from today’s (May 20th) news. Thank you!
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
These are excellent resources. Thanks.
This is a brilliant addition I can’t wait to start using them in the classroom. Thank you!
Happy to hear that you find it useful!
I can’t find a link to sign up for the newsletter!
Hi! You can find the link in this blog post. Just scroll up and you’ll see the button ‘Subscribe to the newsletter’ 🙂
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
Eventually!
That’s such a great idea!!!
Thanks!
Wow! Great idea! Thank you very much
What an awesome idea! Thank you for always providing us with the highest quality content 🫶 honestly, I can’t thank you enough!
Thanks! We really appreciate that 🙂
That’s great! Is it already available? Where can I find the material?
It’s a newsletter that we send weekly. To get it, you need to subscribe to our newsletter. If you’re not subscribed, you can scroll up and you’ll find a button to do that 🙂
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
Super! Thank you so much!
I already have a subscription so how can access this material? I can find the links.
You also need to be subscribed to our newsletter. If you’re not, scroll up and use the green button to do that 🙂
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
Hello, I haven’t received any of the News lessons and I’m an unlimited user. I get the regular newsletter but still waiting for the latest addition of the News lessons. Thanks.
Ingo, apologies for this issue. I’ve fixed your data in our mailing system and from now on you will be getting these emails! First one coming next week!
Thank you.
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
Hi, I’ve tried to subscribe but don’t get the conrmation mail. Help!
That’s because you are already subscribed and so you are getting the News for Classroom Use newsletters as well.
Hi! Just to let you know, News for Classroom Use posts are now available on the website. Click here to find them 🙂
cool
Spectacular! The ESL Brains’ Team is the best!!
Thank you so much 🙂 We appreciate that!
Good article, i like it.
This is really great – what I’m missing or can’t find is the CEFR Level for the news. Can you create it for different levels? Or at least specify the ones you share.
My students want to discuss the news!
Thank you!
Hi Sheila! We’re not adding any CEFR levels at this point as we only publish one version of them each time. Things may change in the future but to be on the safe side you should assume that these activities are for B2 (or higher) learners. Personally, I think some of the news items can be discussed with B1 students too but it all depends on your students 🙂