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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Advanced reading. Telling about news with a fun twist

Level: upper intermediate/advanced

Materials:

Students need to read online news in teams. Therefore for this task, teacher will have to use either a personal computer per team or allow students to use their mobiles.

If you do not have any of these devices available, you can choose the "Weird" pieces of news to print.

Procedure:

Divide classes in teams of 3 to 4 ss
Give each student a different source of strange news. I suggest these: (some of the news may contain adult content)

You will find more sources by typing "Strange news" or "weird news" on any browser

Each group picks a piece of news
Each group invents a piece of news
Each groups presents both pieces of news. Make ss explain difficult vocabulary first.
Groups decide which piece is true,

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