News for Classroom Use

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News for Classroom Use is a weekly resource designed to bring current events into your lessons. Each edition includes a short news story and ready-made activities you can use as a warm-up, filler or wrap-up. You’ll also get extras like a glossary and links to related ESL Brains lessons. We try to cover various topics, from breaking news to timeless themes, so you can revisit them whenever they suit your students’ needs. You can read more about it here.

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Musk liable for misleading investors

Business brief
C1 and higher
Open

Oscars 2026 highlights

Culture vibes
A2 and higher
Open

Satellite images and emperor penguins

Nature now
B2 and higher
Open

Evidence for alien life?

Life trends
B2 and higher
Open

Vanishing coastlines

World explorer
B2 and higher
Open

Soaring gold prices

Business brief
B2 and higher
Open

The Grammys in focus

Culture vibes
B1 and higher
Open

George Clooney and family granted French citizenship

Celebrity scoop
B2 and higher
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Best wildlife photographs of 2025

Nature now
B1 and higher
Open

Retro Christmas decorations make a comeback

Life trends
B2 and higher
Open

Prices of computer memory soaring

Tech talk
B2 and higher
Open

Australia’s social media ban for under-16s

Life trends
B2 and higher
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Weather extremes in Australia

Nature now
B1 and higher
Open

Farewell to the penny

Business brief
B2 and higher
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Word of the year 2025: vibe coding

Life trends
B2 and higher
Open

The world’s first $5tn company

Business brief
B2 and higher
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A 13-year-old inventor helps older people

Tech talk
B1 and higher
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Taylor Swift’s record-breaking week

Culture vibes
B1 and higher
Open

Google Skills – a new era of learning

Tech talk
B2 and higher
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Shein to open first physical stores

Business brief
B1 and higher
Open

Record-breaking bridges

World explorer
B2 and higher
Open

September equinox

Nature now
B1 and higher
Open

Spotlight on the Emmys

Culture vibes
A2 and higher
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Lunar eclipse

Nature now
B2 and higher
Open

What Burning Man can teach you

Culture vibes
B2 and higher
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Accidental summer hit

Culture vibes
B1 and higher
Open

GPT-5 now available

Tech talk
B2 and higher
Open

When jeans spark outrage

Celebrity scoop
C1 and higher
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Matcha craze

Life trends
B2 and higher
Open

Caught on kiss cam: CEO scandal goes viral

Celebrity scoop
B2 and higher
Open

City from 1,800 BC opened to public

World explorer
B2 and higher
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One engineer, four jobs

Life trends
B2 and higher
Open

Bezos and Sánchez wedding in Venice

Celebrity scoop
B1 and higher
Open

China’s EV Revolution

Tech talk
B1 and higher
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The next level of AI video generation

Tech talk
B2 and higher
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Lilo and Stitch beats Tom Cruise

Culture vibes
B1 and higher
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