The Newsstand
Issue — June 2026
In this issue
24 lessonsA2 — Elementary
6 lessons- The World's Biggest Football Party The 2026 World Cup is coming — and it will be the biggest one ever.
- Summer Is Here: Fun in the Sun A look at the best parts of the warm season for kids and families.
- Sun, Sand, and Smiles: Beach Life Around the World From Copacabana to Bondi — how people enjoy the sea in different countries
- Sports Words: Team, Goal, Match The essential football vocabulary you need to watch the World Cup.
- There is / There are: Describing Places Use there is and there are to say what you can see in a place.
- Quiz: Countries and Capitals Test your knowledge of capital cities around the world in this friendly geography quiz.
B1 — Intermediate
6 lessons- World Cup 2026: A Big Football Party Across North America The first World Cup with 48 teams arrives in 16 cities across the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
- Midsummer: The Night That Never Gets Dark In late June, Scandinavians dance around maypoles under the midnight sun — a festival that mixes ancient tradition with modern joy.
- Cleaning Up Our Oceans: The People Pulling Plastic from the Sea On World Oceans Day, meet the volunteers, divers, and inventors fighting to save our blue planet.
- Sports Idioms The ball is in your court, a level playing field — sport speaks English.
- Comparing Things: Bigger, Better, Best Learn how to compare two or more things using comparative and superlative adjectives.
- Quiz: Sport Around the World Sumo, cricket, football — how much do you know about world sports?
B2 — Upper Intermediate
6 lessons- Do Mega-Events Help or Hurt Cities? World Cups and Olympics promise glory — but who pays the bill afterwards?
- The Race to Save Coral Reefs From sun-bleached skeletons to underwater nurseries, scientists are racing to give the world's dying reefs a second chance.
- Football: The Language Everyone Speaks How a simple ball game unites fans across every border, dialect, and culture
- Describing Trends: Rise, Fall, Plateau The essential vocabulary for reading graphs, statistics and how things change over time.
- Modals of Speculation: Could, Might, Must Be Guessing about the present and past — how sure is sure?
- Quiz: The Environment in 2026 Climate, oceans, forests — test your knowledge of the planet today.
C1 — Advanced
6 lessons- Sportswashing: Soft Power or Fair Play? When nations host mega-events, is it sport — or reputation management?
- The Melting North: How a Thawing Arctic Is Reshaping Global Trade As polar ice retreats, new shipping routes are redrawing the world's map — and its conflicts.
- The Attention Economy: Your Focus for Sale How apps compete for your eyes — and what it costs your mind.
- The Rhetoric of Protest From chants and slogans to manifestos and polemics — the persuasive language of social movements.
- Nominalisation: Turning Verbs into Nouns How implement becomes implementation — the engine of academic English style.
- Quiz: Geopolitics of the 2020s Power, trade and territory — a challenging world-affairs quiz.