The CNN podcasts are a perfect length for using in the clasroom (they last about four minutes) .
Listen to the podcast yourself and write down a list of three to five words for each story.
Lesson plan
1 Ask the students what's been happenining lately in the news. Threy then discuss which are the most important.
2 On the board write down three words you have already chosen from the each of the stories on the podcast.
3 Ask students to predict what the story might be about.
4 Play the podcast (on your mp3 player and any handy pair of computer speakers).
5 Student discuss in pairs what they've heard.
6 Play the podcast again.
7 Once more students discuss (perhaps in larger groups this time) what they heard.
8 Ask students to discuss what they think are the top three stories of the day.
As a follow up students could even chose and record their own Greek verson of CNN using English-language news sources e.g. Kathimerini's English page. I know I've talked about this idea before but I thought I'd "recycle" it.
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