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I'm teaching English in France and would like to know if there are any free publications such as newspapers & articles so my students could see actual English texts??? Please let me know if you can help. Also any good project ideas to use in an ELL/ESL classroom???

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Two off the top of my head are:
www.breakingnewsenglish.com
http://www.voanews.com/english/ where the special english section is pretty handy.