Comprehensive....ready to go site!

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

About it:

• A great site! Inclusive with up-to-date news articles accompanied by audios, exercises, quizzes and handouts. 
• What makes this site so amazing is the amount of planning and activities that has been prepared.
• Teachers can select any article that goes with the lessons theme and everything is ready!
• Great tasks throughout all the listening and reading processes.
• Pre-reading tasks, post-reading, while listening, after listening, warm ups, quizzes etc. are all geared-up! 
• Listening, reading, speaking and writing skills will definitely be enhanced with the activities offered. 

Significance:

• Concerning its relevancy, i believe that it is more than adequate.
• It provides tools that work greatly in task-based language classes. 
• Allows interaction among students since that almost all activities and quizzes work best when done in groups. 
• I also believe that it works superbly in learner-centered classes, where students would do most of the job and teachers might interfere occasionally. 
• I  believe that this site with all its activities encourages autonomous learning.

Suggestions:


In Classroom:

• Great activities that can be done in groups.
• Students may at the start respond to the warm-ups introduced by the teacher. Then, listening to the audio or reading the article individually or among groups is a choice. 
• However, I believe that pre-reading/listening tasks can be monitored by the teacher to be able to examine the students general reaction towards the passage.
• Activities after having listened to the audio could be done in groups since the level is quite high.
• Teachers can choose some of the activities available, because there are lots of materials.

Outside Classroom: 

•  At home, students can follow-up with the activities that were not done in class . 
• A "homework" is available for teachers to assign to students with every article that is covered. 
• Loads of quizzes can be done at home.

Shortcomings: 

• In my opinion, i think that breakingnewsenglish.com wouldn't be a great choice for new teachers, because figuring out what to use in the class from activities would be quite difficult. I believe  some experience is required to be able to select what would actually work, be fun and benefit the students.
• Teachers could search for certain topics/themes, but there isn't any grouping of student levels only a limited grouping of themes which i thought would make things harder.
• Definitely not for beginners.