Newsademic nr 214 – British and American English Edition (with activities) 9th January 2014

Newsademic Features:

- 26 issues in 12 months
- Features stories currently making the international news
- Articles, written in an easy-to-read style, include latest news plus background information and explanation
- Each issue is accompanied by two sets of activities/worksheets and the respective answer keys
- Articles featured reflect no political or religious bias
- Stories are reported factually and every attempt is made to feature both sides of any situation in which opinions differ
- Focus on international news events that shape and affect the world that we all live in today
- Carries no advertising

In this issue:

Shark protest in Australia
Clothing factory strikes in Cambodia
Fiat and Chrysler
Panama Canal dispute
Ivory destroyed in China
Earthquake lights and UFO’s
Mine detecting rats
Roman people’s diet
Chemical weapons leave Syria
Christmas Island’s red crabs
Antarctic rescue ends
Latvia joins ‘eurozone’
Solar cycle ‘flip’
Taiwan’s baby panda
AK-47 designer dies
Marijuana shops open in Colorado
2014 New Year celebrations
Boycott in Bangladesh
Iraq’s Anbar province
Glossary Crossword and Wordsearch Puzzle