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Title: Late Learner Date: 5 July 2018 Topic: Read about school for the elderly in Thailand and a Cameroonian man who dropped out of school in 1940 has gone back and passed his primary school exam at the age of 75. (Education system, school, Past Simple / Present Simple / Present Perfect.) Level Elementary
Title: Shadow Boxer Date: 15 May 2018 Topic: Behind the apartment’s curtain, a tough guy is boxing, throwing left and right hooks and jabs. But a Japanese apartment management company hopes that the image of the boxing man will help protect women living by themselves. (Being alone at home, security systems.) Level Pre-Intermediate
Title: Psychic Cat Date: 11 June 2018 Topic: Like many soccer fans trying to predict the results of the World Cup, Achilles the cat is busy studying the teams heading to Russia this month for the sport’s biggest global showdown. But he has one advantage: cat sense. (FIFA World Cup, Soccer, psychics, animals.) Level Intermediate
Title: Hunting The Monster Date: 17 June 2018 Topic: A global team of scientists plans to scour the icy depths of Loch Ness next month using environmental DNA (eDNA) in an experiment that may discover whether Scotland’s fabled monster really does, or did, exist. (Loch Ness monster, scanning, adverbs.) Level Upper-Intermediate
Title: Plastic Free Shopping Date: 1 June 2018 Topic: “Over the past 15 years clothing production has doubled, while the amount of time we wear those clothes before throwing them away – usually to be landfilled or incinerated – has fallen dramatically,” Souchet told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. (Sustainability, fashion industry, plastic free labels and plastic free packaging.) Level Advanced

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