News articles in simplified English for language learners
The number of people in the US who speak a second language has tripled in the last 40 years, according to a report by the U.S. Census Bureau. About 68 million Americans speak a second language at home – 1 in 5 citizens. Spanish, spoken by 41 million people, is by far the most spoken … Read more
El Salvador has opened a new prison for 40,000 inmates, one of the largest in the world. It has been built to help the country’s overpopulated prisons. The Terrorist Confinement Center, 70 km from the capital, has 37 guard towers and 8 cell blocks. It is said to be among the safest in Latin America. … Read more
The last Boeing 747 jumbo jet has left the factory in Seattle and is now owned by an American cargo company. The famous airplane, often called the Queen of the Skies, was produced for over 50 years. The first jet left the production lines in 1969. The 747 was a revolutionary airplane with four engines. … Read more
A new study shows that students around the world lost about a third of a year’s learning due to the COVID pandemic. 15 countries were examined, most of them in the western world. During the first year of the pandemic, many countries closed down their schools in an attempt to slow the spreading of the … Read more
Rubik’s Cube is a 3-D puzzle game that became famous at the beginning of the 1970s. It was invented by Hungarian designer and professor, Ernö Rubik. At first, he used the cube to teach his students about logical movements. They were thrilled and realized that solving the puzzle was actually fun. A few years later, … Read more
The bones of a father and his teenage daughter have recently been found in a cave in Siberia. According to DNA results, they probably lived about 50 000 years ago. The cave has been under excavation for over 14 years. Archaeologists have discovered 80 bone fragments, the largest number ever found. There were also prehistoric … Read more
Almost 7 million Venezuelan citizens have left their country since the economic and political collapse in 2014. It has been the second-largest refugee crisis in the world. Most of the migrants are fleeing to neighbouring countries, especially Columbia. Thousands are taking dangerous routes through the jungle north to Panama, but many of them do not … Read more