I’d always assumed that the reason why I hate teaching current affairs lessons is pure laziness, given how quickly the lesson generally becomes impossible to use with later classes. Recently, though, I’ve started to think that maybe my lack of motivation to teach such classes has as much to do with how little useful long term learning such classes tend to lead to. Have attempted to deal with both of those problems in a new article and page of worksheets:

How to make news-based lesson less temporary

Current affairs/ News worksheets page