Reading lessons for EFL and ESL learners using newspapers (NiE)

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Post Tips
June - September 1999

This series of lessons using the Bangkok Post in your EFL/ESL classroom is based on talking with the people who put our newspaper together each day. The aim is to

help your students become familiar with the various types of reading material available in our newspaper;
give your students a taste of what the journalism profession is really like;
help your students learn to read the newspaper -- not just one story, but to learn patterns for regular reading;
help your students learn to think, a crucial aim of our new curriculum.

Below is our schedule for this term.

Post Tips interviews the people who write the news
June 7	The Bangkok Post is a buffet: a look at why the newspaper is so big
June 14	The news in focus: pictures add drama and understanding to a story
June 21	What is news, anyway?: looking at the guidelines for chosing the stories that get published
June 28	Writing the news: following a story from beginning to end with a student writer as our guide.
July 5	Get on with it! We talk with those who write the headlines and look at lead paragraphs
July 12	Focusing on the environment: Deputy News Editor for the Environment and Urban Affairs talks about how environment stories are written.
July 19	Taking advantage of news style: using the style to help you with words you don't know
July 26	News Summaries: Meet the man who writes the back page summaries of the day's news.
August 2	Writing opinions: a top commentator talks with us about how topics are selected and how commentaries are written
August 9	Our readers speak out: an assistant editor talks about letters from readers
August 16	What do they think?: What do foreign visitors and residents think about Thailand?
August 23	Job hunting: tips for answering employment recruitment advertisements in the classified section
August 30	The feature story - part 1: a look at how feature stories are written
September 6	The feature story - part 2: we talk with one of our bright young feature writers and look at his work
September 13	Busy Term: a review lesson
September 20	Can you read the Bangkok Post? Final test

These are the other lessons in the post tips series of lessons:

a series of classic lessons which can be adapted by using recent stories and pictures from the newspaper;

a thematic list of post tips lessons.

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