â A precious metal is an expensive metal (such as gold) that is used especially for jewelry. â see also semiprecious. diamonds and other precious stones. precious jewels/jewelry. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples.
Al Jazeera English newsroom, Doha, 2008. News is information about current events. Journalists provide news through many different media, based on word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, and also on their own testimony, as witnesses of relevant events.
Newsela is a data base of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. Use Newsela to differentiate nonfiction reading. Newspaper writers rewrite a story four times for a total of five Lexile levels per story.