Kenyans Build Sand Dams to Keep Water In southeastern Kenya earlier this year, people from Kasengela village built a special kind of dam. The barrier is called a sand dam. It reduces water flow and increases the amount of wet sand behind it. Sand dam...
Ship Crash Collapses Major Highway Bridge in Baltimore A container ship smashed into a major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland early Tuesday, causing it to collapse. The accident sent several vehicles and people into the river and closed one of the busie...
Hungry Gazans Eat Wild Plant to Survive The United Nations Security Council is demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Some members are concerned that a famine might have begun. The territory's civilians are reportedly eating a wild plant...
In Vietnam, People Leave Mekong Delta to Find Jobs in City Eleven-year-old twins Dao Bao Tran and her brother Do Hoang Trung live on a houseboat in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. But their dreams take them far away. Tran loves K-pop. She watches videos at n...
Symbols of Easter Spring has begun in the northern half of the Earth. For Christians, a major springtime holiday is Easter. This year, Easter falls on March 31. In this week's Everyday Grammar, we learn how to talk about holidays and the foods, objec...
Talking about Your Dreams In an earlier Everyday Grammar, we talked about Fast Car, a song about young people who had dreams of making their lives better. Then, we asked our readers and listeners to tell us about their own dreams. In today's lesson,...
What Is Your Countrys National Dish? Consider a time when you sat down to share a dish with family or friends. What was the dish? Is the dish special in your country or area? In today's lesson, we will explore how to talk about foods. We will learn a...
Learn Indefinite Pronouns with 'Fast Car' On today's Everyday Grammar, we are going to look at things that are different from each other: in other words, contrasts. Let's start: At the 2024 Grammy awards, one performance got the attention of many dif...
Breaking the Rules with Miley Cyrus Flowers Every year, the Recording Academy in the United States gives awards to the performers and songwriters with the most outstanding achievements from the year before. The Academy calls those awards the Grammys....
What Is Popular in Different Countries? In a recent lesson, we asked our readers and listeners to write to us about what is popular in their country. In today's lesson, we will explore some of what was written to us. Our audience will be the guides o...
