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Where Can We Find Authentic Materials? 
Authentic materials can be found easily in different places. You can find junk mail of your own or 
your friends’. Catalogues, novels, short stories, newspapers and magazines can be easily obtained from a 
library. You can easily assign students to go to the library to find out the intended materials. When you go 
to supermarkets and malls, you can also get the catalogues for products and prices and sale fliers. 
Postcards from your friends can also be used to teach English. Songs now can be easily found in cassette 
counter or downloaded from the internet. You can also record radio and TV shows. YouTube also 
provides a range of authentic materials.
 
 

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How to Use Some Authentic Materials? 
Some possible ways of using authentic materials to facilitate students’ learning adapted from 
LAPIS-ELTIS 92008c) are as follows.
Newspapers 
Newspaper can be used for different purposes.
The following is among the example of how to use it in an English class.
• Use the advice column to work on modals. Have students write answers to the questions asked in 
the advice column. They also make great discussion points- re values, customs etc. 
• Have students use the first paragraphs of a story to complete who, what, where, when (sometimes 
why) grids. Then give them a headline and have them write their own stories. 
• Use graphs and charts
• Read a book or movie review aloud and have students do global listening to determine if the 
reviewer liked it or not. 
• Ask students to choose a job or an ad from a paper- they then interview each other.