Adding context to exam answers

A selection of headlines in the last 24 hours: - Householders hit at mortgage rates rise - Maximum waiting time at Heathrow’s terminal 3 was breached more than 100 times in 15 days - Microsoft has invested $300mn to rival Apple and Amazon in the e-book market - The cancellation of the Badminton Horse Trials due to a rain-sodden course will cost insurers £3mn and local businesses thousands more - Global labour market ‘alarming’ - Double-dip - does it matter? - Rate of pub closures is slowing - Top tax rates hit four million people

......so many news stories at the moment, which students could use as evidence to help strengthen their points in essays. Too many to write up a blog on each one - but I might try to vary the revision lessons at the moment by taking in a selection of cuttings from the newspapers and asking students to imagine essay titles, topics and paragraph points which each one might be used for.