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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.

Newsy.com is a multi-source online video news site that monitors, analyzes and presents the world's news coverage. Videos with subtitles.

News article - global english/ google translate

New English File online

Lessons using the news

One MInute Headlines

learning second language good for your brain!

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.

Improve your listening skills and hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice.

Listen to a story/news item etc, and write what you hear. Stories are organised by level. There is something weird about how it deals with punctuation, so do have a go first yourself.

Internet resources, review, news, tips and trivia for learners and teachers of English.

BBC's technology programme

Learn new words, play games, explore language - links to Visual Thesaurus, Spelling Bee and VocabGrabber.

"New Media Literacies Blog"

Interesting videos, pictures and news stories - something different every day - might inspire you?

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

Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.

official site - text, videos, images, latest news views facts figures etc

Internet resources, reviews, news, tips and trivia for learners and teachers of English

New - Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus online, and free.