The Newsstand
Issue — October 2026
In this issue
24 lessonsA2 — Elementary
6 lessons- Halloween: Spooky Fun Around the World Costumes, candy, and carved pumpkins — how people celebrate October 31st.
- Autumn Food: Pumpkins, Apples, and Warm Soup The simple tastes of October, made for cold days at home.
- Autumn Markets and Fairs: Where Communities Meet in October A seasonal guide to harvest festivals, market squares, and old traditions
- Clothes Words: What to Wear Coat, scarf, boots — getting dressed for autumn in English.
- This, That, These, Those Near and far, one and many — the pointing words.
- Quiz: Animals in Autumn Discover what animals do to get ready for cold winter days.
B1 — Intermediate
6 lessons- The Nobel Prizes: Stories Behind the Medals Every October, the world watches as a few extraordinary people and organizations receive the most famous awards in science, literature, and peace.
- Day of the Dead: Mexico Celebrates Its Ancestors How Mexico's colorful festival honors the dead with marigolds, sugar skulls, and family memories.
- Haunted Tourism: Why We Love Scary Places From foggy castles to midnight ghost walks, travelers are paying to be frightened — and loving every minute of it.
- Idioms About Fear Discover colourful English expressions that describe everything from small worries to true terror.
- Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses The comma that changes meaning — who vs ,who,
- Quiz: Great Scientists Curie, Darwin, Einstein — a quiz about the people who explained the world.
B2 — Upper Intermediate
6 lessons- Dark Sky Tourism: Chasing the Stars A growing number of travellers are planning their holidays around the absence of light — and discovering the night sky as they have never seen it before.
- Fermentation: The Oldest Food Tech Returns Kimchi, kefir and kombucha are turning ancient preservation into the food world's most surprising trend.
- Who Owns the Past? The Great Museum Debate From the Benin Bronzes to the Elgin Marbles, a culture feature on the global fight over colonial treasures
- Talking About Death — Gently How English softens hard words and why it matters in real conversations.
- Mixed Conditionals: Past Meets Present If I had studied, I'd be fluent now — when time zones collide in one sentence.
- Quiz: Mysteries of the Deep Test your knowledge of the ocean's deepest secrets, from glowing creatures to ghostly shipwrecks.
C1 — Advanced
6 lessons- Living Longer: The Science Rewriting the Rules of Aging Longevity research has shed its fringe reputation — but what does the evidence actually support?
- The Quantum Internet: Unhackable Communication? How physicists are using entangled photons to build networks that no spy can break into.
- Gothic Literature: Why Fear Sells From Frankenstein's laboratory to the flickering glow of streaming horror — a journey through the genre that taught us to love the dark.
- Semantic Drift: Words That Changed Meaning From 'nice' meaning foolish to 'awful' meaning awesome — how meaning quietly slips through the centuries.
- Emphasis: Inversion, Clefts and Fronting Three powerful ways to make one part of your sentence stand out — and how to choose between them.
- Quiz: The Edges of Science Test your knowledge of quantum networks, longevity breakthroughs, and the mysteries of dark matter in this advanced frontier-science quiz.