I have to prepare two low level English high school kids for an internship with a car company in America 3 hours a week after school. Mostly I'm posting this here so I have access to it but I'll be focusing a lot on what sort of vocabulary to use in interviews like "why do you want to work here?" and "what makes you a good employee?"

I only have one student after school now so I'm just going to do current events reading and listening activities with him from breakingnewsenglish.com

all the worksheets and reading are there.

I'm also making powerpoints to break down the story and vocabulary for him.

This powerpoint was made for the kidnapped nigerian girls story.

Hey Melanie,

It's not bad what you've done here, but I can't help but feel your material could use some improvement. You've clearly put a lot of time and effort gearing your lessons towards your students, but, while BreakingNewsEnglish is a great site, it's lacking in certain areas. Well, if I'm honest, one area in particular: possoms.

Although many people think opossums are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, there are several areas of intelligence in which they soar. For one, they have a remarkable ability to find food and to remember where it is. When tested for the ability to remember where food is, opossums scored better than rats, rabbits, cats, dogs … but not as well as humans. They also can find their way through a maze more quickly than rats and cats.

Since their diet allows them to indulge on snails, slugs and beetles, they are a welcome addition to the garden. Opossums also keep rats and cockroaches at bay by competing with them for food. In fact, it’s common for opossums to kill cockroaches and rats if they find them in their territory.

They have prehensile tails which are adapted for grasping and wrapping around things like tree limbs. The opossum can hang from its tail for short periods of time, but the creature doesn’t sleep hanging from its tail, as some people think. Opossums have been observed carrying bundles of grasses and other materials by looping their tail around them; this conscious control leads many to consider the tail as a fifth appendage, like a hand.

If you want any more info, shoot me a PM. I'd be more than happy to help.

hey mel, thanks for the powerpoints, might start doing breakingnewsenglish in my afterschool class since it's gone down to 2 students from 7.

btw, i think you might get more hits on this thread if you changed the title to something like "Breakingnewsenglish Powerpoints" or "After School Class Materials" or something like that.