Christina Koch to Become Acting Deputy Chief Engineer
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
Astronaut Christina Koch gets a new job.
- A2
Astronaut Christina Koch will get a new job.
- B1
Astronaut Christina Koch will become the acting deputy chief engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- B2
Astronaut Christina Koch will become the acting deputy chief engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on 1 November 2026.
- C1
Astronaut Christina Koch is preparing to trade the spacecraft cabin for a desk.
- C2
Having circled the Moon and logged nearly a year in orbit, astronaut Christina Koch is preparing to trade the spacecraft cabin for a desk.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- acting
- temporarily doing the duties of another person
- deputy
- a person who is the second most important in an organization
- retire
- to leave your job and stop working, usually because of age
- maintain
- to make something continue at the same level or standard
- management
- the control and organization of something, like a business or a team
- specialist
- someone who has a lot of skill or knowledge in a particular subject
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.