[jbyrne]

Hello

What is best. News and Sports from your own country or News and Sports from UK and USA newspapers? Which would you prefer to read?

EDIT: Please keep site promotion in your signature.

Thanks

Jason

[livinginkorea]

Hi,

Persoanlly I perfer to read RTE news (Ireland's number one broadcasting system) and also I can watch the news there with Real Player. For sports I mostly check Sky Sports 'cas I'm a big soccer fan.

In regards to students, I used to use Yahoo News and go to the Odd news. That's the one with interesting stories. I copy that and then edit it to suit my students level. I do it with the students then and they can learn new words and discuss the article afterwards. It's a bit of work, rather than buying a specific newspaper style book but it depends on your students' level.

BTW, isn't Jason Byrne a famous Irish comedian?

[jbyrne]

HI

Thanks for your opinions.

Yeah there is a famous Jason Byrne. I think he is fairly big in Ireland and the UK. I have never seen him.

I googled Jason Byrne once and was a bit depressed to find there are many of us. Growing up in the suburbs of London, Jason is a common name, but Byrne is a bit unusual. So I was always a little unique. You`d be amazed at how many English speakers can not pronounce BYRNE. BYron, Biren, Bernie, they can`t figure out what follows BY. But of course they should have had pronounced BYR not BY.

Anyway thanks to TV`s Jason Byrne that is all changing, uniqueness gone, although you are the first to mention it. He can`t be that big yet!

cheers

Jason

[emile]

I like the BBC world service, both the radio version and the online version. great resource, too