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From https://musicuentos.com

 

Sarah-Elizabeth Cottrell writes, "For students approaching or solidly sitting in Intermediate Land, a unit focused on news reporting can add some real power to world language class. Consider what pops up in the news:

 

• high-interest stories (engagement!)

• narration

• interviews (multiple voices!)

• culture (practices + perspectives!)

• the perfect tenses (“17 people have gotten sick after a strange school lunch mishap” – a tense that’s fairly elusive in high-interest authentic resources)

 

"I spent half the spring semester (remember, seeing learners once a week) on a news unit, and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Several of my learners reported (haha) it was the most engaging unit last year. Thanks to some good habits I’d already developed and a session on news at the Central States conference, I landed on some powerful ways to supercharge my news unit, both to make it more fun and to make it super easy to plan. I mean super easy. Let’s talk through how you can build and pull off a more successful news unit."

 

Read the full blog post for great ideas: https://musicuentos.com/2019/08/supercharge-a-news-unit/