All articles by Tim Bowen
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ArticleElementary news lesson: 2020 Eurovision Song Contest postponed until 2021
June 2020: On 18 March, Eurovision said that it had to cancel the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in its 64-year history.
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ArticleElementary news lesson: The country where football continues
May 2020: With fans really missing live games, the Belarussian league has signed TV deals with several countries.
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ArticleElementary news lesson: The 2020 Olympic Games will not take place
April 2020: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Japan has postponed the 2020 Olympic Games until 2021.
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Elementary news lesson: American astronaut breaks space record
March 2020: Christina Koch spent 328 days in space, and also took part in the first all-female space walk with Jessica Meir.
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Elementary news lesson: Some UK cities are planning to ban cars from city centres
February 2020: London was first to introduce the ‘congestion charge’; now other UK cities want to take action to reduce pollution.
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Elementary news lesson: Was this the longest ever non-stop flight?
January 2020: Airline Qantas hopes to show that regular non-stop flights between major European cities and Australia are possible.
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Elementary news lesson: 196 marathons in 196 countries
December 2019: A British man, Nick Butter, ran a total of 8,270 kilometres and visited all seven continents, making £65,000 for a cancer charity.
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Elementary news lesson: Tickets for the Glastonbury Festival 2020 are all gone in 34 minutes
November 2019: More than 2.4 million people registered to buy the 50th anniversary tickets, but only 135,000 people were able to buy them.
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Elementary news lesson: More than 80,000 fires are burning in the Amazon rainforest
October 2019: This year, there are 77% more fires than in 2018, the largest number since official records began in 2013.
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Elementary news lesson: A French inventor flies across the English Channel on a hoverboard
September 2019: The former jet-ski champion made his ‘Flyboard’ using 1.3 million euros from the French army.
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Elementary news lesson: Halep and Djokovic are the 2019 Wimbledon champions
August 2019: The women’s final was a very short match, but the men’s match was the longest Wimbledon final ever.
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Elementary news lesson: A woman opens the emergency exit door on a plane by mistake
July 2019: The evacuation slide opened and the plane couldn’t take off. It arrived at its destination more than seven hours late.
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Elementary news lesson: US explorer reaches the deepest place in the ocean
June 2019: Victor Vescovo filmed some interesting creatures in the Mariana Trench. Sadly, he also filmed some plastic waste.
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Elementary news lesson: London introduces an ultra low emission zone
May 2019: People driving into the new zone whose vehicles do not meet Euro 4 or Euro 6 standards will have to pay an extra charge.
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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.