CHARACTER ROLE PLAY: Each student takes one of the central characters in the article. The teacher can add more. Students with the same roles discuss their characters and plan what they will say in the role play. The teacher sets the scene for the role play.
STUDENT DECIDED ROLES: The teacher outlines the nature / situation [...]

Pre-reading and pre-listening ideas to ease students into interaction with the article, expose them to vocabulary and ideas and thus make the article easier to negotiate.
TRUE/FALSE CHOICE: Create a series of true/false sentences. For each proposition, include one sentence that is true and its false partner.

Circle the sentence that you think is correct
Google wants to [...]

Many of these activities are intended for five- to ten-minute bursts of activity, although many could be used for extended fluency practice.
WORDS BRAINSTORM: Teacher writes a keyword related to the news article on the board. Students spend one minute brainstorming all of the words they associate with that keyword. Students talk about the words in [...]

English Skill Level: All
Grade Level: All
Also Called: Learner-Centered Curriculum
Background
The learner-centered approach is a general orientation toward language teaching that has evolved since the 1970s in reaction to teacher-fronted, top-down language teaching classrooms and curriculum. In general, a learner-centered approach focuses on the background, needs, and expectations of students to create a more effective, authentic, and [...]

English Skill Level: Advanced Beginning to Advanced
Grade Level: Elementary to Adult
Background
Instead of teaching reading through traditional, bottom-up approaches using basal readers, students are given the opportunity to explore reading through the use of authentic texts. There are various methods
within the parameters of this approach, including literature-based discussion groups outlined here.