The core programme entitled "Improving Your English With the Bangkok Post" appears from Tuesday through Friday in the classified section of the newspaper, and here on the Internet updated six days a week.

The Friday column - post tips - is designed especially for teachers. Its main purpose is to acquaint teachers with a wide variety of methods for teaching reading based on authentic material found in a daily newspaper.

Acharn Terry briefs the teachers about the aims of the lesson. Acharn Phatcharaporn, second left, then shared with the other teachers what her students had done in the week before the educational services team visited.

A big thank you to the teachers and students of the school for helping us to fine-tune the lesson.

Emphasis on life skills

There were prizes for students who shared what they had learned about the Bangkok Post.

During the week they had worked in groups to find and cut out a variety of different information: the most interesting story of the day, pictures with good captions, information about the stock market, weather reports and cartoons. They gained a good understanding of what was in a daily newspaper and how to find it in the Bangkok Post.

Activity One: A group competition

First, the students got ready for the competition by taking a quick look through the paper to make sure they remembered where each kind of information is found.

In their groups, they had to work as quickly as possible because the first group to answer all the questions corrrectly would be the winners.

The groups learned to arrange themselves so that it was easy to work together.

Cooperation is the key to getting the task completed quickly.

Acharn Terry has a final wrap-up with the students and there are applause for all groups for work well done.

Students and teachers ended the day with a new appreciation of ways that a daily newspaper can be used in the classroom to help everyone improve their English. the staff of educational services also learned a lot and had a good time.

Acharn Terry talks with Acharn Phatcharaporn about writing the Teacher's notes for the lesson.

You can see those notes and the whole lesson by returning to
post tips for June 16, 2000.