30
Listening Rocket
academic passages
30
General Reading
challenges
30
Extra Passages
timed practice
1,350
Vocabulary words
from AI drills
90
Reading passages to complete by the end of the course
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The full course 90 passages
Listening Rocket30 academic passages
- P1·1The Early History of Olive Oil
- P1·2Roller Coaster
- P1·3The Growth of Agriculture
- P1·4Why Good Ideas Fail
- P1·5The Trans-Australian Railway
- P1·6The Baobabs of Madagascar
- P1·7Caral: An Ancient City
- P1·8Rubber
- P1·9The Whale Goes to Court
- P1·10A Survivor's Story
- P2·1The History of Pencil
- P2·2Australia's Camouflaged Creatures
- P2·3Antarctic Research
- P2·4Rebranding Shopper's Stop
- P2·5How Plants Fight Back
- P2·6Multi-tasking and the Brain
- P2·7Coral Reefs
- P2·8Bird Migration
- P2·9Is Graffiti Art or Crime?
- P2·10Intelligent Behaviour in Birds
- P3·1Mother Tongue in Education
- P3·2The Voynich Manuscript
- P3·3Conscious and Unconscious Thought
- P3·4Science and Filmmaking
- P3·5The Geography of Taste Buds
- P3·6When People Are 'Deaf' to Music
- P3·7The Art of Deception
- P3·8Tourism
- P3·9What is Social History?
- P3·10The Cause of Linguistic Change
General Reading30 challenges
- 1Why Do We Need Sleep?
- 2The Science of Shopping
- 3The Art of Deception
- 4A Brief History of Humans and Food
- 5Multi-tasking and the Brain
- 6Investing in the Future
- 7When People Are 'Deaf' to Music
- 8The Remarkable Power of Placebos
- 9Insect Decision-Making
- 10Feeding the World
- 11Blind to Change
- 12Does Class Size Matter?
- 13Sleeping on the Job
- 14Reducing the Effects of Jet Lag
- 15Playing Soccer
- 16The Discovery of a Baby Mammoth
- 17Sleep in Hunter-Gatherers
- 18Children's Comprehension
- 19Keeping the Water Away
- 20New Filter for Clean Water
- 21The Tasmanian Tiger
- 22Extinct: The Giant Deer
- 23Memory in Plants
- 24Beachcombing for Early Humans
- 25Creative Problem-Solving
- 26Too Much Choice?
- 27How Sleep Helps Us Learn
- 28Why Do Singers Lose Their Voices?
- 29The Writer Maurice Gee
- 30War of the Plants
Extra Passages30 extra passages
- P1·1Roller Coaster
- P1·2A Decibel Hell: Living in a Noisy World
- P1·3Australia's Cane Toad Problem
- P1·4Climate Change and Global Biodiversity
- P1·5The Development of the Silk Industry
- P1·6Museums and Family Visitors in Australia
- P1·7Footprints in the Muds of Time
- P1·8The Clipper Races
- P1·9Tea and the Industrial Revolution
- P1·10Early Photographic Processes
- P2·1TV Addiction
- P2·2Farmers: An Iconic NZ Chain Store
- P2·3The Evolution of Criminal Psychopathology
- P2·4Boring Buildings
- P2·5Orientation of Birds
- P2·6Being Left-handed in a Right-handed World
- P2·7Growing More for Less
- P2·8Introvert and Extrovert Characters
- P2·9Bestcom: Considerate Computing
- P2·10The Changing Face of Farming in Canterbury
- P3·1Communication in Science
- P3·2Life on Mars?
- P3·3Inspired by Mimicking Mother Nature
- P3·4Research into Taming a Fox
- P3·5What Makes a Musical Expert?
- P3·6Thinking for Themselves
- P3·7The Role of Accidents in Business
- P3·8Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter
- P3·9Planet Earth's Blue Heart
- P3·10Global Warming in New Zealand
Vocabulary 1,211 words
Every word taught across the course — 601 from the academic passages, 750 from General Reading. 1,351 in total, 1,211 of them distinct.
The complete word list1,211 words