The News

• Magazines

• Newspapers

• Newseum

• Headlines

• videos

• Search engine

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• Learning with the news

• Teaching with the news

News on video 

Magazines Online

http://www.themagazineboy.com/

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Search engine

for news

http://www.rocketnews.com/2corporate/searchengine.html

Short News

http://www.shortnews.com/

for papers or magazines

The Paperboy [Quite possibly the web's finest newspaper search engine,
constantly updated and now featuring 4871 newspapers from 172 out of the 190
different countries on the planet!!]
http://www.thepaperboy.com

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Newseum

http://www.newseum.org/cybernewseum/index.htm

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Today's news

Headlines

The daily headlines grouped by themes

http://news.google.com/

US

http://news.google.fr/news/en/us/main.html

UK

http://news.google.fr/news/en/uk/main.html

Australia

http://news.google.fr/news/en/au/main.html

Canada

http://news.google.fr/news/en/ca/main.html

New Zealand

http://news.google.fr/news/en/nz/main.html

Today's Front Pages

 Select a region and see the newspapers that are available. 

Click on the paper you are interested in and see the front page.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

uk dailies

http://www.sky.com/skynews/home

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UK newspapers

 British papers or magazine on line  

http://www.zen.co.uk/wrx/britnews.htm

National daily newspapers

Daily Express

Daily Record

Financial Times

Electronic Telegraph

Guardian Unlimited

The Independent

MegaStar

The Mirror

Racing Post

The Scotsman Online

The Sun Online

The Times

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Using the news to teach

The English press

Reading and writing newspaper articles

This lesson focuses on calling students' attention to newspaper writing style. It ends with students writing up their own short articles 

http://esl.about.com//od/writinglessonplans/a/lp_news.htm

Create your  own tabloid frontpage

http://www.firstnews.co.uk/Your-First-News.aspx

activities based on the news

http://ndaeuro.rapnouil.net/teachers/media/newslesson2.htm

 Linotes UK 

is a website for teachers and students studying AQA
English Language and Literature and Media Studies.  Sections
include Glossary of Media Terms, Mass Media & Culture, Reading Media,
Reality & Representation, Audience Theory and British Newspapers.

http://www.litnotes.co.uk/

Worksheets

worksheets to help you prepare some lessons based on the news.

Covers newspapers, sport journalism, TV news

Very good resources indeed! 

(a useful search engine will help you find what you're after)

http://www.teachit.co.uk/

Topical news items (based on articles published in the Guardian weekly)

 edited to three levels with worksheets 

for each level for you to use in the English class.

Each worksheet contains vocabulary, speaking and grammar work as well as reading practice. 

http://www.onestopenglish.com/Magazine/news_lessons/index.htm

New York Time (lessons plans, news summaries , news quiz., what happened on this day.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Online news extra

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/

Pencil News for Kids

Short texts perfect for lower intermediate/intermediate students

Weekly News Quiz (it's not interactive, you'll need to print it out) and a
monthly calendar of interesting historic anniversaries.

http://www.msnbc.com/local/pencilnews/

Scholastic Newszone

interactive news quiz (ten multiple-choice questions about the week's current

 events), a News Zone Real Audio Radio broadcast, and an opinion poll …
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/

Time for Kids

 teachers section and lesson of the day (some short texts good for lower

 intermediate/intermediate students)

http://www.timeforkids.com/

First news

http://www.firstnews.co.uk/home.aspx

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Learning English in the news

Read, listen and learn the English in this week's stories. Also, understand global

 issues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/news/

Breaking news 

Current events and business English lesson plans contain a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html 

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