Get the daily news

Objectives

• The learners might understand and feel more connected to the society when they understands the daily news.
• Giving interest and motivation towards following the local news.
• Raise awareness for the daily news towards integration.
• Use the daily news towards being active part of a democracy.

Preparation

The facilitator needs to watch the news and collect pictures, key words and headlines from the news and print them.
The participants can help with cutting in order to save time.

Instructions

Non-readers and new readers

The participants watch the daily news together, using an online newspaper or a broadcast.
Key words are translated or explained by the facilitator.

The facilitator hands out pictures, key word and headlines to the participants. The news is simultaneously displayed e.g. on the board.

The participants mingle and stop in pairs.

They ask and answer each other what is on their respective cards.
Then they switch cards and continue mingling.

Afterwards the participants sit in small goups, pair pictures with correct headline or key word.

Readers

The participants watch or read the daily news together, using a newspaper, an online newspaper or a broadcast.
Key words may be translated or explained by the facilitator.
The facilitator hands out pictures and headlines to the participants.

The news is simultaneously displayed e.g. on the board.

First the participants mingle and stop in pairs.

They ask and answer each other what is on their respective cards.
Then they switch cards and continue mingling.

Next the participants sit in small groups with pictures and headlines, pair up and talk about the content in the news.

Int the end the participants can sort news into categories: local news, politics, economics, international, sports, cultural …