A New Digital Platform for Shellfishing
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
MIT Sea Grant is a research group.
- A2
Researchers at MIT Sea Grant made a new system.
- B1
Researchers at MIT Sea Grant have created a digital platform called Seashell.
- B2
Researchers at MIT Sea Grant have created a digital platform called Seashell to help manage and share shellfishing information in Massachusetts.
- C1
In Massachusetts, shellfisheries are a highly valuable resource.
- C2
In Massachusetts, shellfisheries constitute a highly valuable resource, woven into the daily rhythms of coastal life.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- shellfishing
- the activity of catching shellfish, such as clams or oysters
- supply
- an amount of something that is available to be used
- launch
- to start something new, like a product or a business
- gather
- to collect things or information together
- harvest
- to collect crops or animals from nature
- adopt
- to start to use a new method or idea
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.