2018-12-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Farmer Jamie Butler is testing a new worker on his farm in England's Hampshire countryside. Butler hopes the new worker will help the 180-hectare farm produce more wheat and not h

2018-12-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Dan Katt opened his beer company, Good City Brewing, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2016.At the time, it was a presidential election year. He did not think about the possibility of a t

2018-12-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The threat of rising sea levels and erosion have many people worried about the future of lighthouses in the United States and around the world.Lighthouses are built on or near the

2018-12-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Today we will answer a question about two misunderstood modal verbs.Modal verbs are helping verbs. They help us express things like necessity, permission, ability and possibility.

2018-12-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Have you ever been to an airport or train station where the official language was English? What was your experience – easy, difficult or in between?Today, we will explore som

2018-12-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What's Trending Today...Cold, snowy weather has arrived in many places. That means young people are enjoying building snowmen, going sledding and having snowball fights.Bu

2018-12-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

France has suspended planned increases in fuel taxes for six months after violent protests in the streets of Paris and other cities.Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced

2018-12-04 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Monday marked a return to school for thousands of children who lost their homes to a deadly wildfire in Northern California.In Butte County, California, schools have been closed si

2018-12-03 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Indian officials recently approved weight guidelines for children's school bags.The central government said the weight of the bag should depend on the age of the child. It urged a

2018-12-02 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The ruling party in Singapore has named a likely replacement to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Lee is 66 years old and has said he will step down at age 70. He is the son of Singa

2018-12-01 所属栏目:AS IT IS

If you can write or speak even just a little English, you have surely used prepositions -- words like "to," "in," "on," "at" and "by." A preposition is a word or group of words tha

2018-11-30 所属栏目:AS IT IS

It was beautiful in Washington, DC, this morning! I could see the sun shining and hear birds singing. So, I decided to walk to work. As I walked down 6th Street, I smelled a delici

2018-11-29 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Cairo, Egypt's capital, is one of the largest cities in Africa and one of the best known in the world.For more than 1,000 years, it has stood on the banks of the Nile River, the l

2018-11-28 所属栏目:AS IT IS

It was spring 2007 in northern Iraq when 6-year-old Saja Saleem ran home from school with good news about her progress in school. She hoped to receive a gift her father had promise

2018-11-27 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Mexico has begun taking steps to increase security near its border with the United States.Mexican officials announced Sunday that police arrested 39 people after a peaceful march t

2018-11-26 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Scientists are trying to save Puerto Rico's endangered Amazon parrots after Hurricane Maria destroyed the birds' habitats and food sources.El Yunque is a large national forest on

2018-11-25 所属栏目:AS IT IS

New software programs for wireless devices are helping women in India stay safe in public spaces. Developers say these apps, short for applications, make it easier for women to rep

2018-11-24 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Officials in Northern California say a deadly wildfire that began two weeks ago is almost completely contained.The Associated Press reports that the wildfire, known as the "Camp Fi

2018-11-24 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Swiss citizens will vote Sunday on an issue involving cows that has divided the country.Voters will decide if farmers can receive government aid for not removing the horns of their

2018-11-23 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The verbs "let," "allow" and "permit" are part of a group of verbs called "causatives." These verbs express how one person or thing causes something else to happen. For instance, i

2018-11-22 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Forget what you learned about the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. It did not begin with the "Pilgrims and Indians" in 1621, when English settlers invited Native American

2018-11-21 所属栏目:AS IT IS

In the year 1620, Native Americans met the English settlers who arrived in the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Those settlers, known as Pilgrims, helped launch the United States a

2018-11-20 所属栏目:AS IT IS

A new United Nations report finds that opium-poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is now 20 percent lower than it was in 2017. The report noted a lack of rainfall and falling prices of

2018-11-19 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Nine former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, have traded their guns for small visitor boats in Colombia's dense Amazon forest.The former rebel fight

2018-11-18 所属栏目:AS IT IS

In the picturesque Himalayan mountains of northern India, the Book Café looks like a normal cafe. But it is part of a bold social experiment.Jai Chand works at the caf&eacut