Ever given a student a newspaper article and found that they do not seem to find it that interesting? Yes, perhaps the article itself may be at fault, but perhaps it also has something to do with the fact that young people are simply not that into newspapers.
One way I have found to get around this is by using Google Translate. Here's a way you could use this tool in any classroom:
1. Visit the website and type the name of a topic you are currently studying into the translate field in order to translate it into a language of your choosing.
2. Copy and paste this translation into Google and run a search to find articles on that topic in your chosen language.
3. Provide students with an electronic version of your chosen articles and ask them to copy and paste them into Google Translate for translation into English.
4. Students are to interpret the translation and re-tell the article in their own words to the class.
The reason why this process is a good one is that Google Translate doesn't always provide a perfect translation. Requiring students to make sense of this imperfect translation allows them to interact with the text in a unique way, as they are now becoming the story teller as opposed to the reader of a boring old newspaper article. This process goes a long way in embedding ideas into the pupils' minds as they have created something with the given information as opposed to being passive readers or listeners.
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