Topic outline
Main course page
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GRABAWORD (formerly In The News)
- activities to help low to high intermediate level English students collect and learn high frequency words as efficiently as possible while improving your reading and listening skills and knowledge about a range of topical issues. Activities for each story are designed to be completed in easy to follow, sequential steps within approximately 45 minutes.
- LOW INTERMEDIATE - INTERMEDIATE - Voice Of America (VOA), Behind The News (BtN)
- INTERMEDIATE - HIGH INTERMEDIATE - ABC’s The World Today (TWT)
- includes links to audio tracks and a transcript.
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This is the ABC's website for Behind The News. Some Grabaword lessons (above) are based on these stories.
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This is the ABC's website for The World Today. Some Grabaword lessons (above) are based on these stories.
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- 2 types of online activities - comprehension and grammar
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- some have pre-reading vocabulary exercises as well