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CURRENT EVENTS and the "WORLD" IN THE EFL CLASSROOM

Current events are a great way to learn English and prompt discussion. (see my presentation). Particularly for intermediate and advanced students. Find here many materials for using news articles and other "news" resources in the classroom. Click below to go to Breakingnewsenglish and the wonderful resources there for many of the videos examples. Please discuss below any ways you've used these or your own resources. Upload something and share!

CURRENT EVENTS RESOURCES ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
BREAKING NEWSENGLISH	News Predicts the Future Beckham Moves Healthy Pizza $100 Laptops Exercise Pill Internet and the Family Namdaemun Fire - Seoul Keyboards, Dirtier than Toilets Gaza War of Words Winnie The Pooh Comeback GOOGLE (Brand PPTS - Lesson #17) Michael Jackson Dies Barack Obama McDonald's Closes Nelson Mandela Day Korean Woman passes 950th Driving Test World's Tallest Building Holocaust Memorial Day The Winter Olympics Youtube 5th Anniversary P. Diddy's son's Party ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Presentations	What People Eat Best Photos All Time Africa on 1 Day Nat. Press Photographers Slideshows Time Magazine Slideshows All About Africa How Americans spend their day 2010 in Images Chernobyl - would you stay? We are the 99% World Where We Live Images of Korea North Korea Countries of the world ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Links / Sites	Project Peace N.Y. Times Daily Quiz Livestation (World News/TV) [Windows] [Mac] Use our ID/PW - eflclassroom@mail.com / eflclassroom Newseum The National Archives The World Sunlight Map Scribble Map BBC NEWS MAP 10X10 Pictures&News World Records What's Happening on the Web National Geographic Readers! I Spot A Story 12 Events that will Change the World BBC World News podcasts / scripts World Clock World Statistics Clock MORE World Statistics Live Social Media stats up to the minute. Newser Where does US oil come from? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Activities/Resources	N.Y. Times Lesson of the Day Rich Wilson - Sailing around the World Columbus Zoo!All Systems Go - The Body 3D model of the human brain Foreign Policy Lesson Plans Blank World Map Modern Farming Interactive ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Videos+	Geography at the Movies The 5 Senses Touch Taste Smell Sight Hearing HOME - HD Earth - The Pale Blue Dot Foli Rhythm (Africa), One in 8 million (authentic listening) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Geography / Resources / Games	GUESS THE GOOGLE Don't Gross Out the World The Amazing Race The World Capital Cities Flags Asia Latin America Europe Photos Africa USA Canada Unesco Sites Geography Challenge Quiz Test your Knowledge of Europe World Cup Geography Game WORLD INFO INTERACTIVE MAP MSU Headline Clues Flags of Every Country MAP ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Planets / Space	Video - Cosmic Zoom The Planet Game Planet Info. The Solar Symphony Game Planet Sizes Video - Race to Space The Solar System Song All the Nat. Anthems ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Science	Tsunami Earthquakes Volcanoes Tornadoes Hurricanes Handouts 1 2 3 FISH SPACE SHUTTLE AVERAGE FOOD CHAIN THE HUMAN BODY ECLIPSES HURRICANES iNTERNATIONAL DATE LINE LASERS SNOWFLAKES ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Comment by Tran Thi Minh Phuong on October 11, 2009 at 9:38am: Please help me to upload the video to my PC so that I can play it when the lineoff.

Supporter Comment by ddeubel on October 13, 2009 at 3:39am: Tran,

It depends what kind of video. Many you can download in our A/V player. Hit the arrow on each video - on the right.

Also, if it is a youtube video you can go to http://keepvid.com and put in the video url/address for example: http://youtube.com/Ax5p436dc . Then press download. It will download to your desktop so you can play it without being on the internet.

Supporter Comment by ddeubel on January 26, 2011 at 4:19am: Newspaper map and Neweum

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