The Newsstand
Issue — May 2026
In this issue
24 lessonsA2 — Elementary
6 lessons- May Day: A Holiday for Workers On May 1st, people around the world celebrate workers and their important rights.
- Markets Around the World: A Colourful Journey From Morocco to Tokyo, local markets show us how people shop, eat, and meet every day.
- Mother's Day: Different Dates, Same Love How families around the world celebrate mothers — in spring, in autumn, and with very different traditions
- Jobs and Occupations: People at Work Discover the everyday English words we use to talk about the work people do.
- Present Continuous: What's Happening Now Actions in progress — the tense for this very moment.
- Quiz: Getting Around Town Buses, bikes and boats — a fun quiz about transport.
B1 — Intermediate
6 lessons- Europe's Night Trains Are Back on Track As more travellers swap planes for sleep on the rails, sleeper services are quietly making a comeback across the continent.
- Eurovision: Music, Politics and Glitter Why 160 million people watch a song contest every year
- Coffee Culture: From Istanbul to Melbourne How the world drinks its favourite drink — and what your cup says about you.
- Work Idioms: Speak Like a Pro in the Office From climbing the ladder to burning the midnight oil, these common work idioms will help you sound more natural in English-speaking workplaces.
- Relative Clauses: who, which, that Join two short ideas into one smooth sentence using the right relative pronoun.
- Quiz: Festivals of Europe From Eurovision to Oktoberfest — test your European festival knowledge.
B2 — Upper Intermediate
6 lessons- The Four-Day Week: What the Trials Found From Reykjavik to London, companies shortened the workweek — and the results surprised almost everyone.
- Basic Income: Small Experiments, Big Questions Cities around the world are testing whether giving people money with no conditions can change lives — and the answers are not simple.
- Lights, Camera, Côte d'Azur: Inside the Cannes Film Festival From the red carpet to the deal-making rooms, how a French seaside town became the capital of world cinema
- The Language of Negotiation From leverage and bottom lines to horse trading and deal-sweetening, the words and idioms that turn difficult talks into agreements.
- Conditionals: Real and Imagined Situations A complete map of 'if' sentences — from everyday facts to imagined outcomes.
- Quiz: The World of Work Jobs, money and the future of work — an intermediate quiz.
C1 — Advanced
6 lessons- Europe's AI Act Comes into Force The world's first comprehensive AI law begins reshaping how the technology is developed, sold, and used.
- Microstates, Macro Influence How Monaco, Singapore, and Luxembourg wield global power despite their tiny size.
- Satire: The Sharpest Form of Criticism From Swift to late-night TV — why laughing at power is a serious business
- Formal Register: The Language of Institutions Decoding the precise, archaic vocabulary that powers official documents, decrees, and agreements.
- The Subjunctive and Formal English A 'fossil' verb mood that still rules in demands, recommendations, and hypothetical clauses — and how to use it with confidence at C1.
- Quiz: Big Ideas in Economics Inequality, growth, welfare — an advanced quiz on ideas that shape policy.