Newstalk weblog
First class weblog of the new term, the NewsTalk weblog will allow students to post about the articles we will be discussing in class, and eventually they will put up other articles they have found as well as what they have found out in a small group project that they will do. It's a project in its infancy.This class has always used only reality as its textbook; it has a headline exercise (match the headline and the paragraph) and news clips from live television. This time of year, it's hard to stay away from Kerry-Bush-hype-etc. as our students aren't generally that interested in it, but there's plenty of other stuff they are interested in, and this site will keep an ongoing record of it.
For the record, this class might appear to be teaching any number of things, but is mainly focused on discussion skills, vocabulary development, and using life as a schema for picking up culture and language....it's always been fun, and I hope it stays that way!
posted by tom @ 2:17 PM
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