The Newsstand
Issue — September 2026
In this issue
24 lessonsA2 — Elementary
6 lessons- Back to School Around the World From new uniforms in Japan to colorful cones in Germany, students start the year in different ways.
- Autumn Arrives: Cooler Days Ahead A simple look at the season when leaves change colour and mornings feel chill.
- Oktoberfest: More Than Beer A simple guide to Munich's most famous festival — its tents, music, food and friendly traditions
- School Words: In the Classroom Let's learn the names of the things you see and use every day at school.
- Telling the Time and Talking About the Day Learn how to say the time and describe parts of the day in everyday English.
- Quiz: My Town Test what you know about common places in a town — bank, bakery, bus stop, and more.
B1 — Intermediate
6 lessons- The Gap Year: A Break Before What's Next More students are pausing between school and university — and discovering what they really want from life.
- Inside the United Nations: Where the World Talks Every September, world leaders meet in New York — but what does the UN really do all year?
- The Subscription Life: Why We Rent Almost Everything From streaming music to driving cars, paying a little each month is changing how we live — a B1 culture feature
- Education Idioms: Talking About School Like a Pro Learn 12 useful English idioms about studying, learning, and school life.
- Future Perfect: What Will Have Happened Learn how to talk about actions that will be finished before a future time — by 2030, by tomorrow, by the time you arrive.
- Quiz: Inventions and Inventors Who invented what, and when — an intermediate innovation quiz.
B2 — Upper Intermediate
6 lessons- AI Tutors Enter the Classroom Personalised, patient, always on — the debate over machine teachers is moving from science fiction to school reality.
- Reading the World: The Global Fight Against Illiteracy From rural classrooms to refugee camps, communities are rewriting the future through literacy programs.
- Food Halls: The New Town Square How old market halls are being reborn as vibrant, communal dining destinations.
- Wishes and Regrets: The Language of What Might Have Been Master the words and phrases English speakers use to dream about the past and imagine different choices.
- Wish and If Only Expressing unreal presents and pasts with the grammar of regret and imagination.
- Quiz: The Classroom of the Future AI, VR and lifelong learning — a quiz about education's next chapter.
C1 — Advanced
6 lessons- The UN Veto: Five Powers, One Blocked World A 1945 mechanism still paralysing the Security Council — can it survive the 21st century?
- Microcredentials: The Unbundling of the Degree Short, focused certificates are quietly dismantling the four-year university model — and reshaping how we hire, learn, and grow.
- Post-Truth: When Facts Become Optional A decade after Oxford crowned 'post-truth' Word of the Year, we examine how a single adjective rewired our relationship with reality — and what thoughtful readers can do about it.
- The Art of the Polite No: Diplomatic Language for Sensitive Moments Mastering the linguistic choreography of refusing without offending — phrases that preserve relationships while drawing clear lines.
- Discourse Markers: The Glue of Argument Master the connectors — moreover, granted, hence — that turn scattered ideas into persuasive, flowing arguments.
- Quiz: Words That Changed Meaning An advanced C1 quiz on semantic drift — the strange, centuries-long journey of everyday vocabulary.