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Lessons from real news: Easily create English Language learning material from an enormous pool of ever growing English Language news sources from around the world. LINGLE automatically identifies grammar, vocabulary, topic and complexity from international English Language news sources including The New York Times, The Guardian and China Daily. You can rapidly find authentic, interesting articles at the right level, with the vocabulary and grammar for your learners. Rapidly build and manage lesson plans with exercises, key-word glossaries and news stories automatically generated from any article. FREE TRIAL for only 2 weeks or 6 documents.

interesting and good idea, but not sure I'd want to pay for it (I don't like anything that uses teachers for an income stream)

http://wp.me/p1VP4o-K I made a GRAMMAR GAP FILL using Lingle - have a look and see what you think. It was very easy, the lesson you'll see on this link took me about 15 mins from start (working out how it all works) to finish.

"New lifestyles in changing societies" - should be some interesting articles / listenings here.

In the first instalment of his brand-new series, Nik Peachey looks at podcasting and how it can be used to help students develop their listening and speaking skills both inside and outside the classroom. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on podcasting, a downloadable lesson plan, a video screencast tutorial and a printable how-to guide.

News article - global english/ google translate

Series of articles and usually videos which focuses on aspects of life in countries and cities around the world. What may seem ordinary and familiar to the people who live there can be surprising to those who do not (apparently).

Fun classroom activities, How to use Audacity, how to use Voxopop, ideas for songs for teaching. Also a call for articles from teachers! This is a new webzine for language teachers worldwide. It has an emphasis on practical teaching ideas with a global/ universal appeal. The aim is to provide an counterbalance to the largely Eurocentric cultural bias of many the materials available today.

Any students who aren't sure whether good spelling is useful might be interested in reading this.