Timeline Projects: Listen to News

Happy New Year! Are you looking for an interesting project idea to try with your
English learners this year? Why not try a Timeline project?
Here are a few examples:
world news timeline (e.g., for a birth year or the year that just passed)
personal timeline of my life
personal timeline in comparison to word news
timeline of our class or school
timeline of a famous person or event
prediction timeline (e.g., What might happen this year.)
Timelines can be useful for:
practising the past tense
summarizing information
comparing and contrasting
combining visual and print media
presenting in front of an audience
writing in chart format
organizing information
Be sure to check out Pinterest for timeline presentation and project ideas. Here
are some useful apps for creating timelines. Here are some more useful timeline
tools.
EnglishClub s News Archives
EnglishClub s Listen to News resource has archives that date back to 2007. This re
source can be very useful when it comes to creating timelines that relate to new
s and historical events. Why not have your students compare their own lives to e
vents that happened around the world? Below is an example timeline entry for a c
omparison timeline between a student s life and the world news.
In 2007, the world s tiniest baby was released from the hospital four months after
her birth. Tiny Amelia Taylor weighed 10 ounces at birth. That same year, my co
usin Ellie gave birth to a baby boy. Marco weighed 9 pounds and spent only 5 hou
rs in the hospital. What a difference!
A timeline project can also be completed online on a blog or webpage. Encourage
your students to include links to the media sources they used or to articles tha
t contain more information.
Tara Benwell | 2015/01/14 | Filed under Teaching