Eng 6 - News of the World

There are English newspapers on the web from all over the world. Today you will each find two articles to read from one newspaper. One article should be about international news and one should be about something local. You will be assigned a newspaper to read.

This is your assignment:

1. Read the newspaper; skim the articles until you find something interesting.
2. Copy each article and paste it in a Word document. Do not forget to copy/past the URLs.
3. Highlight all the words you do not know.
4. Look them up and write the explanation/translation as a footnote for each word.
5. If you know all the words, the article is too simple for you. Find another one!
6. Write a summary of each article.
7. In groups of one from each continent, you will tell each other about your news items.
7. Hand in your copied articles, with words highlighted and explained/translated, and your
    summaries, via Vklass. It will not be graded. This is an opportunity for you to learn more words.
8. Learn the words. They will be your homework for next Monday.

Europe

Malta 
Scotland
Ireland
Wales

North America

Toronto, Canada
Anchorage, Alaska
Washington D.C., the US
Mexico

Australia & New Zealand 

Victoria
Tasmania
New Zealand
Indonesia

Asia

India

Japan

China

Thailand

Africa

South Africa

Tunisia

Morocco

Kenya