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 newsletter with a piece of news and activities based on it which you can use as a warm-up, a filler or a wrap-up task. The newsletter might include: discussion questions, tasks around headlines and images, comments to respond to, glossaries and links to related ESL Brains lesson plans.
How to use the newsletter
The stories covered in the newsletter range from breaking news to more evergreen content which you will be able to go back to according to your students’ needs. The newsletter itself has several parts.
INTRO: A short paragraph describing what the news is about. You might need to read it out to students or it may also serve as a reference point to you, depending on the activities that go with the particular piece of news.
ACTIVITY: A task or tasks for students to work on in the classroom. Each newsletter contains a set of questions related to the news. You might ask students to discuss all of them or just some of them. If you teach lower-level students, use the easier questions or just ask students to say what they think about the news. Other activities might include completing headlines, commenting on pictures, reporting what students have heard about the news, etc.
EXTRA: Each newsletter contains a link to an article about the news. You can share it with students interested in the topic. You might also see a short glossary – ask students to use the vocabulary while talking about the news or look for an activity designed around the glossary. The newsletter might also provide a link to an ESL Brains lesson connected with the news, which you might decide to follow up with.
Subscribe to the newsletter
If you are an Unlimited or a Premium user and you’re subscribed to our newsletters, the News for Classroom Use newsletter will drop into your mailbox every Wednesday. If you still haven’t subscribed to our newsletters, click below:
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, 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 🙂
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 🙂
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.
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’ 🙂
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 🙂
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 🙂