Newsademic nr 262 - 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 262 - 12.11.2015

In this issue we feature the historic election in Myanmar. Our report covers the background and how Aung San Suu Kyi now finds herself at the head of major changes in her country.

The Atacama Desert is blooming, the Trevi Fountain has reopened and NASA scientists now seem to know what happened to Mars' atmosphere billions of years ago. Elsewhere, some prehistoric well-preserved cave lion cubs have been found in Russia's far east and there are proposals for harvesting algae in the Baltic Sea and rebuilding one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossos of Rhodes.

Fancy vivid coloured diamonds
Holiday plane crash
Coyote wolf hybrid
Algae harvesting in Baltic Sea
Trevi fountain restoration
Cave lion cubs
‘World’s Most Powerful People’
Mars’ lost atmosphere explained
Flowering Atacama
Vultures in Africa
Turkey’s second election
Renewables in Austria
Romania’s ‘Colectiv Revolution’
Swimming techniques study
Rhodes Colossus proposal
Guy Fawkes Night
Cyclones in the Arabian Sea
China – Taiwan meeting
Glossary Crossword and Puzzle