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New from the BreakingNewsEnglish.com website suggests that news is for students. A researcher asked many teachers and students in an class their on using the news to learn English. Almost everyone said it was very important. One student said he enjoyed using news because the story is . He said he remembered many times when the teacher put a on the whiteboard and he was surprised that it was that day's breaking news. Another student said she thought news was a lot more interesting than other of topics in her . She said she felt good when she understood the news in English. She also learnt a lot of useful "international ".

Teachers were also about using news in the classroom. Many said students had with listening, so they made the recording to help their students. Teachers also liked news stories because they encouraged . Many teachers said their students talked -stop about news of their own country or city. Teachers also said news was useful because students already had a lot of knowledge from listening to or reading about a news in their language. Teachers also liked the fact that they could do many kinds of activities, such as role , debates, surveys, quizzes and language games. One teacher said he thought listening to news was "unhealthy students".

 


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