wd: September 2009 Archives

Some links to start your search for news articles.

General:

• Google news - New Zealand
• Google news - Australia
• Google news - South Africa
• Google news - United Kingdom
• Google news - United States
• Google news - Canada

National news sources:

• New Zealand Herald
• Sydney Morning Herald
• New York Times
• The Guardian
• BBC

Easier stories:

• Ananova

In order to improve your English skills, you need to read the English press on a regular basis.

So, every 5 weeks you must hand in a folio with five articles including the following:

• a copy of each news article - see "reading log resources"
• 15 key and new words and their translation
• a summary of the article (50 words)

Please note that:

• the articles must be published after the 1st of September 2009
• they must be written in English and taken from an English language site/magazine...
• you must include the publishing date and source

French-English dictionary: wordreference.com
Definitions, synonyms, antonyms: dictionary.reference.com/
Bulk translators: Google translation ; Reverso