Newsademic nr 260 - British and American English edition (with activities)

Newsademic is an easy-to-understand international newspaper, written and edited in a style that assists English Language teaching and learning. Newsademic is a fortnightly publication (20 articles) and associated website. Both British and American English versions of the newspaper are available. The easy-to-read newspaper features the top world news stories that have made headlines during the previous two weeks.

Issue 260 - 15.10.2015

The winners of the 2015 Nobel Prizes have been announced. In this issue we look at the history of these important awards and explain why the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet was a worthy winner of the Peace Prize.

Elsewhere, there are new verses of Gilgamesh's epic adventure, aurochs-like cattle are reintroduced into the Czech Republic and Ada Lovelace's achievements celebrated. Dell wants to buy EMC, the popular moose hunt in Sweden has begun and the exclusion zone around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor is teeming with wild animals.