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 Monday August 25 2008

Olympics News

I’ve been using newspaper articles with a couple of adult students for some time now. I thought it was time to share another resource - I just finished preparing an article to use later this week - it’s olympic related and was published today.

If you haven’t milked the olympics to death with your students you might find this useful. Taekwondo fighter kicks referee in the face - I took one article reformated it and found comments on another article and added that two page two - I think it should make for an interesting discussion. If you like it please leave a comment. As usual it’s available both pdf and
publisher.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Aug 25, 2008 at 10:47 AM
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Chris Cotter wrote 55 words  on  Monday Aug 25, 2008  at  12:47 PM Japan

Sean,

Good article. I especially like the comments you provided on the second page. I think that this really gives students a basis to agree or disagree, and an example of how to better formulate their own opinions. I’ll have to try this with my students in the near future.

Chris Cotter
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Sean.

Sean. wrote 44 words  on  Monday Aug 25, 2008  at  12:49 PM Korea (South)

Chris glad you liked it. In the post I linked to above there is a zip file with about 20 other similar articles.

I’ve actually made another 20-25 since I posted that entry and am considering doing a part 2 with an updated zip.

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