The Newsstand
Issue — July 2026
In this issue
24 lessonsA2 — Elementary
6 lessons- Holiday Time: Where the World Goes in July Beaches, cities and mountains — the most popular places to travel this summer.
- At the Airport: A Journey in Words From check-in to landing — a simple guide to airport words and steps.
- Ice Cream Around the World: A Sweet Journey From gelato in Italy to mochi in Japan — discover frozen treats that bring people together.
- Holiday Words: Suitcase, Passport, Beach The travel vocabulary every learner needs for summer.
- Going To: Plans for the Future Use 'going to' to talk about your plans and to predict what you think will happen.
- Quiz: Summer Fun Sun, sea and sandals — a light quiz about summer activities.
B1 — Intermediate
6 lessons- Slow Travel: Why Tourists Are Taking Their Time A new trend is changing how people explore the world — and where they choose to go.
- Bastille Day: France Remembers a Revolution Every July 14th, France celebrates freedom, fireworks, and the day a famous prison fell in 1789.
- Van Life: Home on Four Wheels How thousands of people traded apartments for the open road — and what they found along the way
- Travel Idioms: Words for the Road Discover useful English idioms about journeys, exploring new places, and the joy of seeing the world.
- Past Simple + Past Continuous One tense shows what was happening, the other shows what suddenly happened — together they tell a clear story.
- Quiz: Famous Landmarks From the Pyramids to Petra — how many world landmarks do you know?
B2 — Upper Intermediate
6 lessons- Overtourism: When Paradise Gets Crowded From Venice to Bali, beloved destinations are saying 'enough' to endless streams of visitors.
- Cooling the City: Fighting the Urban Heat Island From white roofs to urban forests, how cities are using simple and smart ideas to stay livable in a warming world.
- Logging Off: The Global Movement for the Right to Disconnect How France, Portugal and beyond are rewriting the rules of after-hours email
- Complaints and Persuasion: Speaking Up Without Burning Bridges Master the language of firm but polite disagreement — and the art of getting what you want.
- Narrative Tenses: Telling a Great Story How the past simple, past continuous, and past perfect work together so you can time-travel through a story.
- Quiz: How the World Travels Trains, planes and rickshaws — a quiz about global transport.
C1 — Advanced
6 lessons- Who Owns the River? A Western Water Crisis The Colorado River sustains 40 million people, but its future hangs in the balance as states, tribes, and cities face shrinking supplies.
- Data Sovereignty: Nations Want Their Cloud Back Governments worldwide are pushing to keep citizens' data inside national borders — reshaping the digital economy.
- Can Travel Shrink? Inside the Post-Growth Tourism Debate As overtourism reshapes cities and climate targets tighten, a new movement asks whether the future of travel lies in fewer trips, longer stays, and a lighter footprint.
- Corporate Speak: Decoding the Language of the Office From 'synergy' to 'rightsizing,' a guide to the polite masks modern workplaces wear.
- Concession and Contrast: The Hinges of Advanced Argument How markers like albeit, notwithstanding, and granted let writers acknowledge a point before pivoting to their main claim.
- Quiz: Water, Energy and Power An advanced exploration of how rivers, aquifers and electricity grids shape global politics.