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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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    Do you live to eat or eat to live? Do you have a complicated relationship with food? Read this article to find out more about food.

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    Our journey started at Lomonosov underground station. Behind the station we could see about 30 people waiting for a bus to the IKEA shop. This bus is unusual: it is free, and it has a timetable.

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    This is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page. Now, I just like books. I'm reading about six simultaneously.

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    Cornish is a language that is listed as 'extinct' in the UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages but which has experienced a remarkable revival in recent years.

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    A new concept in old people's homes in France. The idea is simple, but revolutionary: combining a residential home for the elderly with a crèche/nursery school in the same building.

A - Z list

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    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.

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    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.

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    Let's look at some different styles of dance.

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    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.

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    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?

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tharaka123
Sri Lanka

i like to say some thing about rice. our country use rice as a main food too. some people eat...
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Singapore

Rice is the staple food in my country too. We eat rice most of the days and it become an...
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amit201036
Nepal

Though it is a age of technology with advance gadgets i recommend you to keep in touch with...
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