Hand each student in your class a copy of the blank front page (below) and ask them to create a front page for a newspaper in their country.

Ask your students to base the front-page on a topic that teaches fellow classmates a little about their country.

As this is a writing exercise you should remind students of the 'TAR technique'.

T- Think
A- Act
R- Repair

Remind them that they need to think about what they are going to write and make notes. Then they should put their notes together and write down what they have prepared. Lastly they should check for any mistakes and ways of improving what they have written down.

This writing exercise normally takes up a whole hour and a half lesson so make the following lesson a class discussion. Get every student to explain their front-page news to other students and allow class members to ask each other questions relating to the news that they discuss.

This encourages 'class debates' and therefore makes for good speaking practice.

Students normally come up with some great front pages and use lots of pictures that they find from the Internet and take a real pride in this exercise.

Awareness in the world is an important issue to address!