Post-secondary ESL students from colleges and adult schools in the Bay Area check out how their peers find out about news by asking the following questions. 1) Do you follow the news? 2) What interests you? 3) Where do you look? 4) Who do you believe? 5) Are your perspectives being represented? Please identify news sources by name or website where possible.
San Jose State University
Thursday, November 3, 2011
A interview Yumi
An interview with a pretty girl from Belarus

----------- By Ziyan LUO, Palo Alto Adult School ESL Student
Yuliya is a pretty and smart girl from Belarus. She usually wakes up early in the morning around 7:00 am and spends about 30 mins on reading news during the breakfast time. Normally she would skim all titles and headlines of all news from some websites and dig more details on those she is really interested in. The websites she always use for news include www.tut.by in her native language ( a very nice website with a collection of all different subjects of news such as education, politics, society, entertainment, life and arts from different local newspapers and magazines in Belarus) and also http://www.paloaltoonline.com/ and http://www.mv-voice.com/ after she moved to Mountain View. CNN is one of her favorite websites for reading news as well. Most of these websites are just presenting facts and information and hence with an objective view. So she always trusts what they told to the public. Yuliya also made some list of favorite websites which make her easy to get the appropriate website directly for specific purpose. For instance, she always uses www.veetle.com and www.YouTube.com to watch movies online. I am so glad to have this chance to know her more.
An Interesting Boy By Bella Lin CCSF ESL 66 student
My partner Anlai who is
interested in politics, sports, and touched story follows the news every day. He
likes to go to the Internet, radio, or TV to look for news. He doesn’t believe
anything because some people say something that’s fabricated. Anlai thinks his
perspectives are being represented. What he thinks about the government that is
represented in a piece of news. He told me it’s funny to watch news.
My interview
She likes to read Myemama political, San Francisco weather and criminal. And coupons on the
news or web are intersting to her.
Usually she reads news from CNN,BBC,GooGle and Yahoo. She doesn't care about edtor and
writer she reads everythinh she is able to read.
And she reads new from internet.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
New classmate from Japan

Last Monday, i have interviewed with my new classmate who is from Japan. The reason of calling new classmate is that I haven't talked to him in the class before. His name is Yohei.
Do you follow the news?
I am surprised about him because he doesn't like to follow the news on channels, journals, magazines and so forth. He doesn't seems to get up-to-date information from the crucial news.
What Interests you?
He likes to do sports.
Where do you look?
He look Live sports on the television.
Are your perspectives being represented?
No.He doesn't care about the news including the weather predictions, earthquakes,political news,etc.
Who do you believe?
He believes teachers because this is the only way to improve English skills for him. =D
my classmate Thant
