Reading News for improving english.

   
     Today's class topic is news, and Rick send us a paper which is extracted from http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal. And he just do a simple survey by giving each of us a question which manner we mostly know the news. Almost the same answer, through the website, and often in Chinese. And he inquiry why we're not approaching English news, the habitual answer--A lot of unknown and professional words.
    And he let us read through the news, and we found although there are do exist some unknown words, but there is no trouble for us to  understand the whole news, often we can guess the words meaning according to the context.
    May be we should change our mind. We often fear the new, long, professional words, and consider, the more new words, the harder for us to understand and master it. This will cause a vicious circle.
    And also, due to most of the news is interesting, or something you are very familiar with, so compared to other technical article, reading news can improve your English more efficiently than by reading some original article, or fiction.
    I hope we can improve together by sharing the interested news.