Earthrise PDF: The 1968 BBC News Article that Changed the World

GRAMMAR VOCAB Advanced Reading Lesson: COLLOCATION BBC News Article shoot (verb) = to film something or take a photo of something Passive Voice form of...

GRAMMAR VOCAB Advanced Reading Lesson: COLLOCATION BBC News Article shoot (verb) = to film something or take a photo of something Passive Voice form of ‘BE’ + past participle verb focus on the object of the sentence, not the person who does the action The 1968 photo that changed the world iconic (adjective) = very famous and represents a very important idea crew (noun) = a group of people who work on a ship, a plane, or a spaceship sight (noun) = something that you can see to orbit (verb) = to travel in a curved path around another much larger object illuminated (adjective) = filled with light More than 50 years after it was shot, Earthrise barren (adjective) = empty, not good enough for plants to continues to be seen as one of the most iconic grow on it environmental photographs ever taken. lunar (adjective) = relating to the moon horizon (noun) On Christmas Eve, 1968 the crew of Apollo 8 = the line where it looks like the land or the water meets the sky captured a spectacular sight as they orbited the Moon: awestruck (adjective) the illuminated Earth appearing above the barren = feeling great respect for how important and amazing something is lunar horizon. The NASA astronauts were Embedded Question awestruck by what they saw. (a question that is included inside another question or statement.) The image was coined "Earthrise". It was the first to coin (verb) = to create a new word or expression colour photograph of Earth taken from space and that many people start to use quickly circulated around the world. to circulate (verb) = to spread and become known by many people The photo is widely credited with propelling the widely credited global environmental movement and leading to the = most people recognize or honor that creation of Earth Day, an annual event promoting someone or something is the reason why something positive happens to propel (verb) environmental activism and awareness, in 1970. = to force a particular situation to happen or progress activism (noun) "It clearly showed the Earth from space but also = the act of working for social or political change put it into a context that we hadn't seen before." awareness (noun) "It showed that Earth was this very vulnerable sphere = knowing that something exists and is important in space." put (something) into context = to provide extra information so that other people can understand something Eighteen months after the Apollo 8 astronauts shot more completely Earthrise, 20 million people took to the streets Past Perfect Tense HAD / HADN’T + past participle verb across the US to protest environmental destruction in vulnerable (adjective) the first ever Earth Day. = easy to damage or harm sphere (noun) The Earthrise photo played a pivotal role in = a round, 3-dimensional object encouraging people to take part in environmental take to the streets activism. = a large group of people go outside on the streets to celebrate something or to protest something first ever (or first-ever) “That's where Earthrise's real strength and importance = for the first time in history lies…it was able to sum up so much in just a single play a role in (something) image in a way that transcended documents and = something is a factor, or something has an effect or an influence on papers." something else pivotal (adjective) = more important than anything else in a COMING SOON: situation to encourage (verb) = to convince or motivate someone to do something JOIN THE COMMUNITY! to lie (verb) = (formal/literary) to exist in or to be caused by a particular Members receive benefits such as... thing/situation/person, etc. to sum up (phrasal verb) = (separable, + object) to describe or Live Classes with Gina show the most important qualities of something in a very short and simple way Exclusive Videos Lessons to transcend (verb) = to go beyond the normal limits of Podcast Episodes something Original BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/ 20230511-earthrise-the-photo-that- Community Chat Group sparked-an-environmental- movement Lessons, Quizzes, PDFs, and more! Classes start in June 2024 Sign up for the waitlist to request EARLY ACCESS (Early Access Members will receive a special offer!) CLICK HERE LEARN MORE at www.yourworldinenglish.com/community