Using CNN learning website

http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/

  

What is it about?
CNN students news is an amazing website that has various entries such as politics, weather, entertainments, economics and sport. Each entry provides news from different parts of the world,e.g. politics covers the world political news. It can be displayed in English and other different language. It can be used in different purposes not just as a tool for language learning.

Why is it good for language learning?
It offers a different range of authentic materials
It is very interesting and learners can choose to watch or read what they want.
Language is used as a tool. Learners can know information on different topics by using language.
Language is used in an interactive and communicative way.
It enhances language skills; learners can listen, read and write comments.
Learners can use it at home.

How it can be used in classrooms?
The teacher, for example; can group students into pairs and tell them to search in the entertainment entry about the latest Jennifer Aniston's news. Then he asks each group to report the information that they collected to the whole class. After that he can ask each group to write a newsletter on Jennifer Aniston as a homework and then to post this letter on the class wall to be available to the other students to read.

Limitation
It is for high proficiency students. Students with lower levels find it difficult to understand the speech and the articles.