A2 English News | Ukraine Hits Russia's St Petersburg Oil Terminal

Improve your English with slow news for A2 listening practice.In this episode: Extreme heat cancels Fourth of July events across the United States. Also: Ukraine says it hit a major oil terminal in St Petersburg.Today’s English focus: was hit and were cancelled = passive forms used when the action is more important than who did it. Vocabulary: cancel (to decide that an event will not happen), humidity (water in the air), heat-related illness (an illness caused by too much heat).Learn more from today’s episode with the full podcast transcript, English translation, vocabulary explanations, and extra learning materials: https://linguawire.com/episodes/english-a2-2026-07-05

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