Elementary News Lessons – Page 2

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Elementary news lesson: The world's fastest car is ... electric

April 2019: The speed of the new Italian Pininfarina Battista is amazing and it looks fantastic. But it will cost you $2.6 million.
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Elementary news lesson: Australia suffers from record-breaking high temperatures

March 2019: In January, the weather in Australia broke 17 records and temperatures reached 49 degrees Celsius in Port Augusta.
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Elementary news lesson: Dog finds rhino horn worth more than one million dollars

February 2019: A sniffer dog called Lizzie found 116 kilograms of the illegal product at the international airport in Johannesburg.
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Elementary news lesson: Chile bans the use of disposable plastic bags

January 2019: Chile is the first country in South America to ban the plastic bags, but some people are unhappy that they won’t now be able to reuse the bags for rubbish.
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Elementary news lesson: Swimmer completes incredible long-distance swim

December 2018: Ross Edgley’s 2,800 kilometre swim around the island of Great Britain lasted for 157 days, and he swam for 12 hours every day.
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Elementary news lesson: Is tourism killing Venice?

November 2018: Huge numbers of tourists cause big crowds and a lot of pollution but don’t spend much money in Venice, according to local people.
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Elementary news lesson: Woman survives after ten hours in the sea

October 2018: A British woman fell from a cruise ship in the Adriatic sea, but survived because the sea was warm and she is a good swimmer.
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Elementary news lesson: Scientists find water on Mars

September 2018: Scientists wonder if the enormous, salty lake under the thick ice of the south pole on Mars contains bacteria.
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Elementary news lesson: The NHS celebrates its 70th birthday

August 2018: ‘Born’ on 5 July, 1948, The United Kingdom’s National Health Service was the first ‘free’ health service in the world.
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Elementary news lesson: The world’s biggest supercomputer

July 2018: ‘Summit’ started working in June and processes medical data so quickly that scientists hope it can help find cures for diseases like cancer.
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Elementary news lesson: Historic meeting between the presidents of North and South Korea

June 2018: Last month, after 75 years of very bad relations between North and South Korea, the two leaders met and shook hands.
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Elementary news lesson: Train travels 11 kilometres backwards without an engine

May 2018: More than one thousand passengers in India are safe after railway workers stopped their train by putting stones on the track.
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Elementary news lesson: The Shape of Water wins the Oscar for best film

April 2018: Oscars are given for many different areas of film-making, including the best actress, best actor and best director.
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Elementary news lesson: The first car in space

March 2018: Elon Musk sent a red Tesla sports car into space on board the Falcon Heavy rocket, with the car playing David Bowie’s ‘Starman’.
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Elementary news lesson: Ice and snow bring problems for travellers in the USA

February 2018: Eighteen people have died in accidents and more than 80,000 others had power cuts because of the bad weather.
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Elementary news lesson: Only 24 people a year use Britain's quietest railway station

January 2018: Barry Links station has no ticket office or ticket machine, and trains only stop at the station once a day - but never on Sundays.
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Elementary news lesson: Louvre art museum opens in Abu Dhabi

December 2017: The museum cost 100 million euros and was opened by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in November 2017.
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Elementary news lesson: Fifty-eight die in shooting in Las Vegas

November 2017: The shooting of people at a music festival was the worst mass killing by one person in American history.
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Elementary news lesson: Hurricane Irma – the worst Atlantic storm ever

October 2017: It will cost around $120 billion to clean up and rebuild houses, schools, hospitals and roads in the USA and Caribbean.
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Elementary news lesson: Is it safe to eat eggs?

September 2017: The Netherlands produces millions of eggs each year, but some are found to contain a chemical which could be harmful.