Until 2001,
Linguapress - founded in 1980 - was an independent EFL (English as a
Foreign Language) publisher and bookstore based in France. Linguapress EFL
newsmagazines had readers in high schools and further education all
over Europe, notably in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria,
Switzerland and Norway. In the pre-Internet era, before the World Wide
Web put worldwide news in any language into every school at the click
of a mouse, Linguapress newsmagazines in graded English offered
teachers and students the unusual ability to keep abreast of the
current affairs from the English-speaking countries.
Linguapress.com
was set up in 1998 to publish, as a free online
resource, articles on contemporary issues from the English-speaking
countries, written in graded English, and accompanied by exercises and
teaching material.
While a lot of the material initially published between 1980
and 2001 in Linguapress magazines was current-affairs based, and is now
largely outdated, the magazines also published a large collection of
background and cultural articles on life and issues in the English
speaking countries – not to mention word games and crosswords
and a number of original short stories.
This archive
of articles, together with the classroom teaching material
to accompany it, will form the bedrock of the new Linguapress.com. In
the course of time, articles will be put up on-line, as free resources
for EFL teachers and students worldwide.
Linguapress.com will also develop as a directory of resources for EFL
teachers and for students and teachers of British, American and French
area studies.
Copyright
notice:
All articles and teaching material published on this website remains
the copyright of Linguapress, except where otherwise stated. Teachers
and students are free to reproduce any material for personal and
in-class use. Within the EU, in schools or establishments that
record the copyright of material photocopied or multi-copied, any
copying of articles from this site, for use in the classroom, must be
attributed to Linguapress, France.
April 2009
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contact
this website, send an email
to
linguapress "at" angleterre.org.uk
