Level 1 - Absolute Beginner
Amazon is a big online store. It sells many things people can buy on the internet.
Amazon uses small flying robots called drones. The drones carry packages to people's houses.
Right now, drones deliver packages in 11 cities. Soon, Amazon wants drones in almost 500 cities and towns.
A drone can bring a small package to your house in about 30 minutes. The package must not be too heavy.
- online store
- a website where people buy things
- drone
- a small flying machine with no pilot inside
- package
- a box with something inside, sent to a person
- deliver
- to bring something to a person's home
- fast
- quick, not slow
- heavy
- weighing a lot
- soon
- happening in a short time
- robot
- a machine that can do tasks by itself
Level 2 - Elementary
Amazon is planning a huge expansion of its Prime Air drone delivery service, aiming to reach nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026.
That would be about six times bigger than its current service area, which covers 11 metro areas across seven states, including Arizona, Florida, and Texas.
New cities set to get drone delivery soon include Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Boise. Each drone can deliver small packages, weighing 5 pounds or less, in as fast as 30 minutes.
Amazon has already made hundreds of thousands of drone deliveries this year, and a top executive says the company expects to reach 1 million deliveries by the end of 2026.
- expansion
- the process of becoming larger or reaching more places
- metro area
- a city and the smaller towns around it
- state
- one of the political regions that make up a country like the US
- weigh
- to have a certain amount of heaviness
- executive
- a person with a senior management role at a company
- expect
- to believe something will happen
- huge
- very large in size or amount
- currently
- at this present time
Level 3 - Intermediate
Amazon has unveiled plans for a dramatic expansion of its Prime Air drone delivery network, aiming to reach nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold increase from its current footprint.
The service currently operates in 11 metro areas spanning seven states, including Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas, with each site covering roughly 175 square miles. Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Boise are among the metro areas slated for upcoming launches.
Prime Air delivers eligible items weighing 5 pounds or less in as fast as 30 minutes. Prime members receive free delivery on orders of 50 dollars or more, while smaller orders carry a 2.99 dollar fee.
The company has completed hundreds of thousands of drone deliveries so far this year, with thousands now happening daily, and a senior Amazon executive has projected the service will surpass 1 million total deliveries by the close of 2026.
- unveil
- to reveal or make something publicly known for the first time
- footprint
- the extent of area or influence something covers
- span
- to extend across or cover a range of area or time
- slated
- scheduled or planned for a future time
- eligible
- qualified or allowed under a set of rules
- fee
- a charge for a service
- surpass
- to go beyond a certain amount or level
- senior
- high-ranking within an organization
Level 4 - Advanced
Amazon has unveiled an ambitious expansion of its Prime Air drone delivery network, targeting nearly 500 US cities and towns by the close of 2026, a sixfold increase over its present operational footprint.
The network currently spans 11 metro areas across seven states, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas, with each deployment site encompassing approximately 175 square miles; Chicago, Syracuse, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Boise are among the metro areas slated for imminent rollout.
The service is engineered around tight constraints, delivering eligible items of 5 pounds or less in as little as 30 minutes, with free delivery extended to Prime members on orders of 50 dollars or more and a modest 2.99 dollar fee applied below that threshold.
Having already logged hundreds of thousands of drone deliveries this year at a pace now reaching thousands daily, the company anticipates, per a senior executive's projection, surpassing 1 million cumulative deliveries by year's end, a trajectory that would mark one of the most significant scale-ups yet attempted in commercial drone logistics.
- ambitious
- having a strong desire to achieve something significant
- operational footprint
- the actual physical area in which a service or operation runs
- deployment
- the act of putting resources or systems into active use
- imminent
- about to happen very soon
- constraint
- a limitation or restriction on what is possible
- threshold
- a level or point that must be reached before something occurs
- cumulative
- increasing or growing by successive additions
- logistics
- the detailed coordination of moving goods or resources
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