Beginner English News

Do you like tennis?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/rafael-nadal-wins-the-australian-open

Rafael Nadal wins the Australian Open tennis tournament Rafael Nadal is a top tennis player from Spain. He won the Australian Open tennis tournament this week. The Australian Open is one of the world’s biggest tennis tournaments. There was a prize of $2 million for the winner of the tournament. The Australian Open is considered a ‘Grand Slam’. Ther...

Do you like fake snow or real snow?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/fake-snow-to-be-used-at-the-winter-olympics

Fake snow to be used at the winter olympics The Winter Olympics will commence next week. The Winter Olympics will be held in the mountains near Beijing, China. Beijing hasn’t received as much snow as previous years, and therefore, they are using fake snow machines to pump snow onto the mountains before the start of the Olympic Games. Some a...

What do you think about the robot?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/tesla-designs-robot

Tesla designs robot Tesla is an electric car company based in the USA. Tesla is a well-known company for technology innovation. The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, said that this year Tesla is working on creating a ‘human robot’. The ‘human robot’ is a robot that looks like a human. The robot will do all the ‘boring...

What activities do you do in lockdown?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/new-zealand-enters-lockdown

New Zealand enters lockdown New Zealand has had no new coronavirus cases since February. However, a man in New Zealand was infected with coronavirus yesterday, so now the whole country is entering a lockdown. The man who caught the virus lives in the capital city of New Zealand, Auckland, and he had been travelling around the....

Do you work from home?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/google-reduces-pay-for-working-from-home

Google reduces pay for working from home The technology company, ‘Google’, has told its staff that they have to start working from the office again. If they don’t, their pay will be reduced by around 10% to 20%. There is one exception, employees can work from home as long as they live close to the office. If they live close to the of...

Which club should he go to?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/lionel-messi-leaves-barcelona

Lionel Messi Leaves Barcelona Lionel Messi is leaving the Barcelona Football Club this week. There are new regulations in Spanish football that limit how much clubs can spend on their players. For this reason, Barcelona could not continue paying Messi his full salary in 2021. Lionel Messi has won the ‘world’s best player’ ...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/rihanna-officially-a-billionaire

Rihanna is Officially a Billionaire The magazine ‘Forbes’, estimates that Rihanna has become the world’s richest female musician. She is estimated to be worth $1.7 billion. However, most of her wealth doesn’t come from music. Rather, her wealth comes from a cosmetics company called Fenty Beauty. Rihanna has over 100 million fo...

Would you stay here?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/star-wars-hotel-opens

Star Wars Hotel Opens A new Star Wars themed hotel is opening inside Disney World Florida. Fans of the Star Wars films will be able to visit the hotel, which provides a ‘two day Star Wars adventure’ for Star Wars fans. Guests will dress as Star Wars characters and will stay in a room on a spaceship. During their stay...

Did you watch the race?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/italian-man-wins-the-olympics-100m-running-race

Italian man wins the Olympics 100m running race A man from Italy, Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the 100m running race at the Tokyo Olympics. He won the race with a time of 9.80 seconds. He is the first man from Italy to win the 100m running race. He was very happy to receive his gold medal. The previous champion, Usain Bolt, retired from athletics af...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/nasa-sends-squid-to-space

NASA will send Squid to space NASA will send squid to space, on the next spaceship going to the International Space Station. NASA flies spaceships to the International Space Station every couple of months. NASA wants to find out how squid are impacted by being in space. This is because there is no gravity in space, and when ther...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/naomi-osaka-withdraws-from-french-open

Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open The French Open is a famous tennis tournament, held every year in France. Naomi Osaka is a tennis player from Japan, she is ranked #2 in the world, and she won her first game of the tournament earlier this week. Naomi Osaka didn’t go to a ‘press conference’ after her first tennis match, saying...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/nba-player-not-happy-with-crowds

NBA player not happy with crowds An NBA basketball player, Kyrie Irving, said that he feels like basketball games are turning into a ‘zoo’ because crowds are behaving so poorly. Someone threw a water bottle at Kyrie Irving during a game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Boston Celtics. The Brooklyn Nets won the game, but the ga...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/british-prime-minister-gets-married

British Prime Minister gets married The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, got married on Sunday afternoon in a surprise ceremony. The wedding is being called a ‘secret wedding’ because Boris Johnson only told a small number of his friends and family that the wedding was going to happen. It was a small wedding ceremony held in...

Did you watch it?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/friends-actors-meet-in-reunion

Friends actors meet in reunion The actors on the popular TV show ‘Friends’ have reunited in a one-off episode. The last episode of Friends was made 17 years ago, and the actors in Friends haven’t made a new episode since then. In the episode, the actors used their real names rather than their character names. They re-watche...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/atletico-madrid-wins-spanish-league

Atletico Madrid wins Spanish League On the weekend Atletico Madrid won the 2021 Spanish Football League, known as ‘La Liga’. This is the first time Atletico Madrid has won the title since 2014. Usually, Barcelona and Real Madrid win La Liga. However, this year they both lost some crucial games, which gave Atletico Madrid a chance ...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/plane-lands-in-belarus

Plane lands in Belarus An airplane landed in Belarus because the ‘air traffic controller’ told him there was a ‘bomb threat’. When the pilot landed the plane, a journalist was taken off the plane, and no bomb was found. The plane was flying from Greece to Lithuania. The airline was ‘Ryanair’, an airline based ...

Which internet browser do you use?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/internet-explorer-is-finished

Internet Explorer is Finished Today Microsoft announced that they will no longer offer Internet Explorer (‘IE’) as an internet browser. Internet Explorer was Microsoft’s first successful internet browser, it started 26 years ago. In 2002, 95% of people used Internet Explorer. Microsoft said that since 2010, other companies...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/us-pipeline-hacked

US Pipeline Hacked A pipeline in America which pumps fuel across many cities was shut down last week. The pipeline was shut down because some computer hackers hacked their computers and shut down the pipeline. The computer hackers asked the fuel company ‘Colonial Pipeline’ for $4 million before they would unlock t...

People evacuated the building.

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/building-wobbles-in-china

Building wobbles in China A building in Shenzhen, China, started wobbling, causing an evacuation of the building. The building, named the ‘SEG Plaza’ started shaking at around 1pm. People outside the building filmed the incident. Usually, earthquakes are the cause of wobbling buildings. However, experts have already chec...

Have you seen a UFO?

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/us-government-to-release-ufo-videos

US Government to release UFO videos The US Government will soon release all of it’s Unidentified Flying Object (‘UFO’) videos. Until now, these videos have been kept in secret. In January, the US Congress made a law which forces the US government to release all of its UFO files. A UFO is an object in the sky which can’t be ide...

Residents are still searching for the missing cat.

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/cat-survives-5-story-jump

Cat survives 5 story jump On Friday, a fire started in an apartment block in Chicago. Two of the apartments caught on fire and all of the residents had to leave the building. In one of the apartments was a cat, the cat’s name is ‘Hennessy’. The owner of Hennessy escaped the fire but Hennessy was stuck in the apartment ...

Business news

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/airbnb-bookings-increase

Airbnb bookings increase People in America and Europe are making Airbnb reservations for their next holiday. Airbnb said that the number of bookings is higher now, than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. America and many European countries have been in a ‘lockdown’ since the start of 2021. Now, many of these countries...

Where do you think it will land? https://www.beginnernews.com/post/chinese-rocket-falls-from-space

Chinese rocket falls from space A Chinese rocket will fall from ‘outer space’ this weekend and land somewhere on the planet Earth. China used the rocket to launch a satellite a few years ago. Now it’s falling back down to Earth. No one knows where the rocket will land. ‘Space experts’ will only know where it will land ab...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/uk-war-ships-go-to-jersey

UK war ships go to Jersey The United Kingdom (UK) sent war ships to Jersey, an island which is only 22km from France. They did this because there is a dispute over fishing rights in the sea between France and the UK. The UK wants French fishermen to do less fishing in parts of the sea owned by the UK. Jersey is an island whi...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/bill-gates-gets-divorced

Bill Gates gets divorced Bill Gates gets divorced Bill Gates is one of the world’s richest men. He created the company ‘Microsoft’ with his friend in 1975. Yesterday he announced that he is getting a divorce with his wife Melinda Gates. In 1987, Melinda joined Microsoft as a product manager and was very successful. Ev...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/man-leaves-island-after-32-years

Man leaves an island after 32 years There is a small island in Italy called Budelli. It is close to the larger island of Sardinia. The island of Budelli is famous because of its pink beach. Only one person lives in Budelli, Mauro Morandi. His boat broke down 32 years ago, and he landed on Budelli. He loved the island so much that he n...

Ouch!

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/baseball-player-gets-hit-in-the-face

Baseball player gets hit in the face A baseball player got hit in the face by the ball during a baseball game in Philadelphia. In baseball, the person who throws the ball is called the ‘pitcher’ and the person who hits the ball is called the ‘batter’. The batter ‘Bryce Harper’, who plays for Philadelphia, was waiting for th...

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/joe-biden-promises-investment

Joe Biden promises investment Joe Biden has been president of the United States for 100 days. On his 100th day as president, he announced a new project to ‘re-start’ America after COVID-19 has finished. In his speech on television, Joe Biden promised to invest in new roads, bridges and tunnels. He said that Americans need be...

Some good news for summer holidays.

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/spain-welcomes-tourists-for-summer

Spain welcomes tourists for summer Tourists will be allowed to visit Spain from June. The Spanish government said that tourists will be allowed to visit if they: Have been vaccinated Recovered from COVID-19 Got a negative test result for COVID-19 Visitors will have to prove this by giving a ‘travel certificate’ to police when the...

The yacht only just fit!

https://www.beginnernews.com/post/yacht-travels-through-small-canal

Yacht travels through small canal The Netherlands is famous for building boats. They build fishing boats, transport boats and leisure boats in the Netherlands. Leisure boats are those used for enjoyment. This week, a company finished building a large yacht. Yachts are large boats which people use to sail around the ocean and relax.....