News resources for ESL students

Breaking News English: Current events and business English lesson plans containing a news article, listening (MP3 file), podcast, communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises. Classroom handouts are reproducible in Word and PDF.

This is one of those resources that can turn a motivated, hardworking teacher into a lazy hack. Just print up what you need and hand out the article, complete with vocabulary summaries, questions and an audio companion for the text (I'm assuming read by Sean Banville, creator of the site. Judging by his bio, this guy has waaaaay more energy than me). Comes in Easy and Harder formats.