READING · Module 2
Summary Completion
71 lessons · 23h 30m · part of Reading Mastery
Strategy & Tips
Beginner Practice
PracticePassage 1 — The Stone Granaries of MehrgarhPracticePassage 2 — Where languages meetPracticePassage 3 — The long road of the wind turbinePracticePassage 4 — The long afterlife of VoyagerPracticePassage 5 — The making of the Mercator mapPracticePassage 6 — Reading a medieval cathedralPracticePassage 7 — Turning plastics back into plasticsPracticePassage 8 — The biology and reputation of the coral reefPracticePassage 9 — The long road of teaPracticePassage 10 — The origins of modern wheatPracticePassage 11 — The library as institutionPracticePassage 12 — How plants split waterPracticePassage 13 — The journey of the monarch butterflyPracticePassage 14 — What lives in a handful of soilPracticePassage 15 — Machines in the fieldPracticePassage 16 — The hidden complexity of coffee farmingPracticePassage 17 — A coast in retreatPracticePassage 18 — The work of translationPracticePassage 19 — The urban park as a public inventionPracticePassage 20 — What elephants knowPracticePassage 21 — Bacteria that have stopped listeningPracticePassage 22 — Damming the river
Intermediate Practice
PracticePassage 1 — Why do whales strand?PracticePassage 2 — The use and misuse of first impressionsPracticePassage 3 — A short history of pepperPracticePassage 4 — Why music seems to move usPracticePassage 5 — The kindergarten and its inheritorsPracticePassage 6 — Living on the edge: life near volcanoesPracticePassage 7 — Rivers put back in their banksPracticePassage 8 — The invention of the modern postal servicePracticePassage 9 — How desert animals save waterPracticePassage 10 — Before the alphabet: reading cave paintingsPracticePassage 11 — Before the compass: seafaring in the PacificPracticePassage 12 — Water in the modern cityPracticePassage 13 — The camera before the filmPracticePassage 14 — Salvaging ships from the seaPracticePassage 15 — The endurance of the street marketPracticePassage 16 — Birds in the cityPracticePassage 17 — The brief age of the airshipPracticePassage 18 — Why Roman concrete outlasted its successorsPracticePassage 19 — The electrical grid learns to listenPracticePassage 20 — What children drawPracticePassage 21 — Before electricity: the age of the windmillPracticePassage 22 — Reading icePracticePassage 23 — Storing the crops of the worldPracticePassage 24 — Fuel from water
Advanced Practice
PracticePassage 1 — The Quiet Transformation of FreiburgPracticePassage 2 — Rediscovering woodPracticePassage 3 — Sleep and the teenage brainPracticePassage 4 — Giving wolves back their spacePracticePassage 5 — The minute physiology of elite sprintingPracticePassage 6 — The dances of the honeybeePracticePassage 7 — The colour of old glassPracticePassage 8 — How sound shapes a cityPracticePassage 9 — The long span: bridges across wide watersPracticePassage 10 — Watching weather from spacePracticePassage 11 — Two languages, one mindPracticePassage 12 — The promise and difficulty of tidal powerPracticePassage 13 — The bodies of high-altitude climbersPracticePassage 14 — The hidden grammar of gesturePracticePassage 15 — What we remember of being smallPracticePassage 16 — Fibres and the long history of clothPracticePassage 17 — Why sleep is good for memoryPracticePassage 18 — Fire and the forestPracticePassage 19 — A fish under pressurePracticePassage 20 — Listening to the universePracticePassage 21 — Spotting a fakePracticePassage 22 — The brain on the dance floorPracticePassage 23 — Languages on the edgePracticePassage 24 — Collecting sunlight from orbit