Discuss the following warm-up questions:
- Why is the news important? Why should we know about current events?
- What is the most important news story from your lifetime? Why?
- What is good about the news? What is bad about the news?
- Would you ever like to be a professional journalist? Why or why not?
Work in a group of 2-4 students.
- Open this link: cnn
- Choose a news story that looks interesting. You may choose from the main page, “US,” or “World.”
- After you choose a story, check with your teacher to make sure it is about current events.
- Begin reading the news story with each other. When you come to a word that is unfamiliar, write it down in the course vocabulary document (your teacher will share the document with you). You will define these words later.
- When you are finished, you will read the story again with the rest of the class, and define the vocabulary words.