Bridge October 2026

CONTENTS

4 HOLIDAY / LANGUAGE
Halloween Quiz, Seasonal Idioms

6 USA
Route 66

8 POLITICS
Understanding the US Midterms

9 LANGUAGE
Express Your Feelings

10 DINING CULTURE
Rules of the Table

12 CULTURE
Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico

14 LITERATURE
The Best Bad Guys of English Literature

16 MATURITA
Reading Part 5

18 ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES
Map of the United States of America

20 NATURE
Nature’s Scariest Bites

22 FILM
Daisy Edgar-Jones

23 NEWS
Cooliosities

24 COMPETITION
“Fusion Food” & “Abandoned Village Stories” Winners

25 PUZZLES
Word Spiral

26 TEST
B2 First for Schools: Reading and Use of English, Listening

EXTRA ARTICLE ONLINE
COMPETITION Abandoned Village Stories: Complete Texts of the Winning Entries

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CAMBRIDGE OFFICIAL PRACTICE TEST

B2 FIRST FOR SCHOOLS

Get more teaching resources for Cambridge English Qualifications.
More useful information here. 

Materials for the Listening and Reading and Use of English tests were published in the October 2026 unit of BRIDGE (pages 26–35). Materials for the Writing and Speaking tests will be published in the January-February 2027 unit. Here’s the answer sheet.
B2 First for Schools: Answer Sheet (pdf)

KAHOOT 1

October 2026 BRIDGE: „Understanding the US Midterms“; p. 8

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KAHOOT 2

October 2026 BRIDGE: „Rules of the Table“; pp. 10-11

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Route 66; p. 7:

Rules of the Table; p. 11: link zde

Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico; p. 13: link zde

Maturita Cheat Sheet: The USA; p. 19: link zde

Nature’s Scaries Bites; pp. 20-21:

Competition Winners: Abandoned Village Stories; p. 24:

  • Texts of all four stories: link zde
  • Lamplight by David Moudrý (audio): link zde
  • The Plague by Adriana Vystavělová (audio): link zde
  • Oil Town by Dorota Ostatková (audio): link zde
  • The Puppet Show by Vlada Cotaga (audio): link zde

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