The Newsstand
Issue — March 2026
In this issue
24 lessonsA2 — Elementary
6 lessons- Spring Around the World: Flowers, Festivals, and Fresh Starts How people in different countries welcome the first warm days of the year.
- A Very Special Month: Ramadan Learn about the holy month when many Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sunset.
- Nowruz: The Persian New Year How families around the world welcome spring with old traditions
- Spring Words: Blossom, Breeze, Bloom Learn twelve easy spring words to talk about flowers, weather, and fun outside.
- Present Simple: Things We Do Every Day How to talk about your habits and routines in English
- Quiz: Food and Meals Around the World A fun quiz about breakfast, lunch, and dinner in different countries.
B1 — Intermediate
6 lessons- Women Who Changed Science: Five Pioneers You Should Know For International Women's Day, we celebrate the scientists whose discoveries shaped our world.
- Japan's Cherry Blossom Season Draws Record Crowds Pink petals cover the country as millions of visitors and locals enjoy the famous hanami tradition.
- Holi: When the World Turns Into a Rainbow Why millions throw coloured powder every March — the ancient story and the joyful celebration
- Idioms About New Beginnings Fresh starts, clean slates, and turning over a new leaf — the language of starting again.
- Future Plans: be going to vs Present Continuous How to talk about your intentions and fixed arrangements without mixing them up.
- Quiz: World Festivals in Spring Test what you know about Holi, Nowruz, Hanami and more colourful spring festivals around the world.
B2 — Upper Intermediate
6 lessons- The Rise of Rooftop Gardens How cities are turning empty roofs into farms — and why it matters
- Beyond the Road: The Second Life of EV Batteries As millions of electric cars reach the end of the road, their batteries are starting new careers in homes, factories and power grids.
- Fasting Around the World: Sacred Hunger, Shared Meaning How Ramadan, Lent, and Yom Kippur turn an empty plate into a spiritual practice — a B2 culture feature
- Green Words for a Cleaner Planet A practical guide to the essential vocabulary of sustainability, climate action, and eco-friendly living.
- Reported Speech: Telling Stories Secondhand How to pass on what someone said — without losing the meaning.
- Quiz: How Green Is Your City? Test your knowledge of environmental vocabulary and ideas shaping the cities of the future.
C1 — Advanced
6 lessons- Water Diplomacy: Rivers That Cross Borders How the Nile and the Mekong became testing grounds for one of the 21st century's most delicate political challenges.
- AI Writes the News — Who Checks the Facts? As machine-generated journalism spreads, the race is on to verify what algorithms produce.
- The Language of Protest: Words That Move the World How slogans, chants and signage have shaped — and reflected — the social movements that change history.
- Soft Words, Hard Truths: Euphemisms in Politics and Business From downsizing to collateral damage, how the powerful dress up brutal realities in polite language.
- Inversion for Emphasis Flip the normal word order after certain adverbs and structures to give your writing and speech a dramatic, emphatic edge.
- Quiz: Global Affairs This Decade A challenging quiz on the geopolitics, crises, and trends shaping the 2020s.