About us

Welcome to the English Express website! It has articles from a newspaper called English Express.

On this website, you can read articles on your computer screen. You can print articles too. Would you like to listen and read along to articles? Press the listen buttons. Some articles have videos to watch too.

You can read news stories. You can read about people, animals and holidays. Try one of the recipes and laugh at the cartoons. You can print word games to do. You can read stories from our readers.

Teaching notes

The website has copies of the Teaching Notes that go with each issue of the English Express newspaper. Click on the menu button for teachers and tutors. Print the notes that you want to use.

English Express newspaper

Alberta Advanced Education and Technology publishes English Express eight times a year, from September to May. There are three levels of articles in each issue.

The English Express newspaper is for adults who are improving their English reading skills. Children and youth enjoy reading the newspaper too.

Did you know that English Express is 26 years old? The first issue was in 1982. Alberta Advanced Education and Technology started the website in December 2006.

Who can order the English Express newspaper?

We do not send English Express to individual readers. We send free copies to educational programs for adults, to libraries and to agencies in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon.

Click on the menu button for teachers and tutors for more information about subscriptions. Note: We can no longer accept new subscriptions from K to 12 schools for use by children and youth under 18.

Special thank you

Alberta Advanced Education and Technology wants to give a special thank you to the Edmonton Journal and the Calgary Herald newspapers. They let us adapt their stories and use their photos in the English Express newspaper and on the website.

Many volunteers help with English Express. For example, they pose for photos. They read stories for the website. And they help package the newspaper for mailing. Thank you, volunteers!

We hope that you enjoy the website!