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=**Welcome to the WORLD LANGUAGE CURRENT EVENTS TEACHING WIKI!**=

Here you will find resources and ideas for incorporating current events into your unit and lesson plans. Using current events in World Language classrooms can build all four skills areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

1. Rationale for using current events in the WL classroom

2. Kinds of media to use for current events

3. Skills/strategy ideas

French
Info Junior: http://infojunior.com/

Radio France Internationale- français facile: http://www.rfi.fr/

Le Mensuel: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/news/topic_focus/ Scholastic classroom magazines (French): http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/mgm_french.htm

German
Deutsche Welle- news spoken slowly in German: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,2068,00.html

German newspapers: http://www.abyznewslinks.com/germa.htm

Sowieso Zeitung fur junge Leser: http://www.sowieso.de/zeitung/#

Kindersache (Rabatz die Kinderzeitung)- http://www.kindersache.de/rabatz/default.htm

Scholastic classroom magazines (German): http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/mgm_german.htm

Italian:
Italian Media: http://www.kidon.com/media-link/it.php

Corriere del piccoli: http://www.corriere.it/Piccoli/home.shtml

Panorama magazine: http://www.panorama.it/

List of Italian magazines: http://www.ciao-italy.com/categories/magazine.htm

Spanish:
Niños (Es Mas): http://www.esmas.com/ninos/

Somos Jovenes- La revista de los jovenes cubanos: http://www.somosjovenes.cu/

Familia- Entelinternet: http://www.familia.cl/menu_arriba_ninos.shtml

Prensa escrita: http://www.prensaescrita.com/

Reportajes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/news/topic/

[|News spoken slowly in Spanish]

Scholastic classroom magazines (Spanish): http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/mgm_spanish.htm

Multilingual Resources:
[|Wikinews]

Online newspapers: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Today's Front Pages: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

World Newspapers and Magazines: http://www.world-newspapers.com/

Authenik magazines from Delta Publishing (French, German, Spanish): http://www.delta-systems.com/proddetail.cfm?cat=6&toc=85&stoc=0&pronum=3373

Elimagazines.com FREE DOWNLOAD OF 1st ISSUE OF 07-08!!! (French, German, Latin, Italian, Russian and Spanish): http://www.elimagazines.com/

Pedagogical Resources:
High School Newspaper Activities

Making Jigsaw Activities with Newspaper Articles:

Reading Foreign Newspapers: