
	Magazine A selection of recorded articles covering a wide range of topics of interest. They are suitable for intermediate to advanced learners.

Magazine

A selection of recorded articles covering a wide range of topics of interest. They are suitable for intermediate to advanced learners.

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Environmental Protest Groups

Facts about the state of the global environment read like quotes on a poster for an epic Hollywood movie. However, many people feel that governments are not taking the environment seriously enough.
Student Power

Who goes on strike? Is it factory workers? Miners? Bus drivers? How about... University or even school students?
Danger: bird bath!

In Britain, 1,207 people had to visit hospitals after accidents with chainsaws in 1999. However, in the same year, 16,662 people, more than twelve times as many, were injured by their sofa.
Tobacco

Tobacco is grown in more than one hundred countries. Tomatoes and tobacco are both members of the same botanical family. Tobacco smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals.
Hallowe'en

Find out some more about the traditional festival of Hallowe'en.

"Feeding the world" why we need rice

Rice is low-fat and high in energy, and you can mix it with just about anything to make a wide variety of tasty nutritious dishes, ranging from sushi in Japan to risottos in northern Italy.
A beach

Imagine a beach: a quiet place, with only the noise of the sea and the gulls in the background. It’s a hot day. There is just the sea, the sun, and the beach: a little paradise.
A Quick Guide to Dance

Let's look at some different styles of dance.
Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a treatment for pain and illness. Thin needles are positioned just under the surface of the skin at special nerve centres around the body.
Aeroplanes and global warming

Have you ever looked out of the window of a plane at 30,000 feet at the vast expanses of empty ocean and uninhabited land, and wondered how people can have any major effect on the Earth?


You can visit British Council Cubed to read science stories on the latest innovations in fashion and music, design and digital, film and life! There is also a language activity to go with each story.


"Feeding the world" why we need rice
A beach
A Quick Guide to Dance
Acupuncture
Aeroplanes and global warming
Amelia Earhart
An HIV/AIDS success story
Animal conservation
April Fool's Day
Archaeology
Assassination
Asthma
Awards
Be your own investigative journalist
Bilingualism
Biotechnology
Building bridges
Calendars
Charities
Christmas – the good, the bad and the ugly


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