Current Events/News (News). An unstructured approach to language teaching
material features current news items for reading and discussion. The content coverage of
these materials, which are for the most part English language newspapers and magazines
such as NewsWeek or Time, differs from both business simulations and general English.
The primary difference is in language selection. Newspapers and current events magazines
are not edited for non-native readers, and thus may feature a wider range of idiomatic and
specialized usage not common to international English, or to business domains of language
use. No interface to language functions is provided in news materials.