The Reading / Listening - Elon Musk - Level 1

TIME magazine has announced its Person of the Year for 2021 is the business leader Elon Musk. TIME said: "Few individuals have had more influence than Musk on life on Earth, and potentially, life off Earth too." It added that Mr Musk is the world's richest person, with more than $255 billion. He is also an example of the great changes in our society. He is helping to save the world and our future. He is working to explore space and get to Mars.

This year has been amazing for Elon Musk. He went into space in his own rocket. His company SpaceX might take us to Mars. His car company Tesla has two-thirds of the electric car market. It is valued at around $1 trillion. Musk is also an engineer, inventor and pioneer in technology companies. He started the e-payments company PayPal. He has companies in robotics, solar technology and artificial intelligence. TIME called him a genius.

* ERROR: Elon Musk has never been into space.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Elon Musk - Level 0,  Elon Musk - Level 2   or  Elon Musk - Level 3

Sources
  • https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk/
  • https://www.npr.org/2021/12/13/1063792887/elon-musk-time-person-of-the-year
  • https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/13/media/slug-time-person-year-elon-musk/index.html


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. the business
  2. Few individuals have had
  3. life
  4. Mr Musk is the world's
  5. more than
  6. great changes in
  7. save the world
  8. He is working to
  1. $255 billion
  2. and our future
  3. more influence
  4. explore space
  5. leader
  6. richest person
  7. our society
  8. on Earth

Paragraph 2

  1. He went into space
  2. SpaceX might
  3. two-thirds of the electric
  4. It is valued at
  5. an engineer, inventor
  6. solar
  7. artificial
  8. TIME called him
  1. and pioneer
  2. car market
  3. intelligence
  4. in his own rocket
  5. take us to Mars
  6. a genius
  7. around $1 trillion
  8. technology

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

TIME magazine (1) ___________________ Person of the Year for 2021 is (2) ___________________ Elon Musk. TIME said: "Few individuals have had (3) ___________________ Musk on life on Earth, and potentially, (4) ___________________ too." It added that Mr Musk is the world's richest person, with more than $255 billion. He is also an example of (5) ___________________ in our society. He is helping to save the world and our future. He is working to (6) ___________________ get to Mars.

This year has (7) ___________________ Elon Musk. He went into space in (8) ___________________. His company SpaceX might take us to Mars. His car company Tesla (9) ___________________ of the electric car market. It is valued at around $1 trillion. Musk is also (10) ___________________ and pioneer in technology companies. He started the e-payments company PayPal. He has companies (11) ___________________ technology and artificial intelligence. TIME (12) ___________________ genius.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

TIMEmagazinehasannounceditsPersonoftheYearfor2021isthebusin
essleaderElonMusk.TIMEsaid:"Fewindividualshavehadmoreinfluenc
ethanMuskonlifeonEarth,andpotentially,lifeoffEarthtoo."Itaddedtha
tMrMuskistheworld'srichestperson,withmorethan$255billion.Heisal
soanexampleofthegreatchangesinoursociety.Heishelpingtosavethe
worldandourfuture.HeisworkingtoexplorespaceandgettoMars.Thisy
earhasbeenamazingforElonMusk.Hewentintospaceinhisownrocket.
HiscompanySpaceXmighttakeustoMars.HiscarcompanyTeslahastw
o-thirdsoftheelectriccarmarket.Itisvaluedataround$1trillion.Muskis
alsoanengineer,inventorandpioneerintechnologycompanies.Hestar
tedthee-paymentscompanyPayPal.Hehascompaniesinrobotics,sola
rtechnologyandartificialintelligence.TIMEcalledhimagenius.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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Free writing

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Answers

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