Assignment C - Part 2.i
Authentic Text
Check the Class Description and Notes on Part 2 on the assignment platform before you begin.
The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
Ensure the text is referenced, and if you have selected a listening text or video, provide a link.
If you choose a reading text, you can shorten and/or adapt it slightly.
Please supply a copy of the original and your adapted version.
If you have adapted the text, briefly explain the decisions you've made about changing the text
in section b) of the essay.
Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach.
Authentic Text - Jeff Bezos launches to space aboard New Shepard rocket ship – BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57849364
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has made a short journey to space, in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship,
New Shepard.
He was accompanied by Mark Bezos, his brother, Wally Funk, an 82-year-old pioneer of the space
race, and an 18-year-old student.
They travelled in a capsule with the biggest windows flown in space, offering stunning views of the
Earth.
When the capsule touched back down after the 10-minute, 10-second flight, Jeff Bezos exclaimed:
"Best day ever!"
New Shepard, built by Bezos' company Blue Origin, is designed to serve the burgeoning market for
space tourism.
Amazon founder Mr Bezos - and other participants in the "billionaire space race" - have been
criticised for offering what some see as joy rides for the super-wealthy. Critics say the money could
be spent on pay rises for employees or fighting climate change.
However, Mr Bezos insists he has an environmental vision: "We need to take all heavy industry, all
polluting industry and move it into space, and keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it
is," he told MSNBC.
"It's going to take decades and decades to achieve, but you have to start, and big things start with
small steps... that's what this sub-orbital tourism mission allows us to do, it allows us to practice
over and over."
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Authentic Text
Check the Class Description and Notes on Part 2 on the assignment platform before you begin.
The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
Ensure the text is referenced, and if you have selected a listening text or video, provide a link.
If you choose a reading text, you can shorten and/or adapt it slightly.
Please supply a copy of the original and your adapted version.
If you have adapted the text, briefly explain the decisions you've made about changing the text
in section b) of the essay.
Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach.
Authentic Text - Jeff Bezos launches to space aboard New Shepard rocket ship – BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57849364
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has made a short journey to space, in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship,
New Shepard.
He was accompanied by Mark Bezos, his brother, Wally Funk, an 82-year-old pioneer of the space
race, and an 18-year-old student.
They travelled in a capsule with the biggest windows flown in space, offering stunning views of the
Earth.
When the capsule touched back down after the 10-minute, 10-second flight, Jeff Bezos exclaimed:
"Best day ever!"
New Shepard, built by Bezos' company Blue Origin, is designed to serve the burgeoning market for
space tourism.
Amazon founder Mr Bezos - and other participants in the "billionaire space race" - have been
criticised for offering what some see as joy rides for the super-wealthy. Critics say the money could
be spent on pay rises for employees or fighting climate change.
However, Mr Bezos insists he has an environmental vision: "We need to take all heavy industry, all
polluting industry and move it into space, and keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it
is," he told MSNBC.
"It's going to take decades and decades to achieve, but you have to start, and big things start with
small steps... that's what this sub-orbital tourism mission allows us to do, it allows us to practice
over and over."
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