Our Next Project

As most of you know, I’m an English teacher.  Back in the days when Watson’s School of English was a booming enterprise, at any rate more than now, we started publishing a newspaper called “Watson’s World News.”  (It was originally called “Watson’s Weekly World News” but that was an insane amount of work.)

It’s a collection of stories mostly of the “News of the Weird” meets TMZ variety, which probably reflects my tastes more than my students’, rewritten into simplified English, with some of the harder words defined or translated.  There’s also a crossword puzzle, a recipe, the monthly horoscope, a couple of other things.

It’s always been popular with students but about a year or so ago we stopped putting out a print version and just do it online.  So, it’s amazing that we didn’t actually realize the next,  obvious step until now.

I’m going to start doing voice recordings of the articles.  So, those of you who are my language students can listen to the article and get the pronunciation as well as reading the articles here.

I hope it works out well.  We’re going to try and figure out the technology this weekend.

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