You can select from the verbs given in the box to narrate the experience of riding/driving (either your experience or someone

else’s), a bike, car, or cycle.

viewing, slowing down, manoeuvring, shifting gear, seeing, racing,

speeding, accelerating, applying the brake, cruising, stopping, pedalling,

watching, crossing, turning

watching crossing tuning

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.

the apollo program, also known as project apollo, was the third united states human spaceflight program carried out by the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the moon from 1969 to 1972.