About this site
This website is intended to help learners of English to make full use of the Bangkok Post, both to improve their English and to gain a better understanding our modern world. Learners of all ages are welcome, from five to 105. Teachers are welcome too. Our weekday lesson plans are an important feature of our programme.
At the moment, most of our lesson material is very current. Each weekday morning, we normally cover one to three stories from various sections of the latest issue of paper. We give learners guidelines for reading stories, lots of vocabulary and sometimes we provide exercises and activities as well. In addition, we also provide sound files for the stories in the popular mp3 format, so learners can listen as well as read. Check out the left-side bar in the "timely" section for the different categories of material we have made available.
The section of the website you have entered is open to anyone. Our about-to-be-opened subscribers section will be restricted to Bangkok Post and Post Today subscribers and to teachers who use the Bangkok Post regularly with their classes. It is very possible that it will eventually open up to fee-paying customers as well once we get e-commerce component up and running. The subscribers section includes a huge store of lessons for reading practice at all levels of proficiency, vocabulary archives, and a variety of on-line courses on different aspects of newspaper reading.
All it takes is time
In short, you can learn to read the Bangkok Post. All it takes is some time on your part. You’ll need about 15 or 20 minutes several days a week with this website. Then, when you feel confident enough, you’ll need an equal amount of time with the newspaper itself. Depending on your language level at the beginning, it may take a year or two to get really good, but you definitely can do it. And if you can read the Bangkok Post, you can read just about any English-language newspaper in the world. That means your English is very good indeed.
