1. FUTURE JOBS READERS
Level 2-①
Drone Pilots

2. Children can fly drones.
Drone Pilot
Children can fly drones.
Flying a drone for fun
What is a drone pilot?
A drone pilot is a person who flies a drone. Some people fly them for fun. Other people fly them for their jobs.

3. How do people control drones?
Controlling Drones
Flying a drone by a river
Flying a drone in a park
How do people control drones?
A drone pilot can control a drone with a remote control. Other drone pilots use computers to control drones.

4. What do drone pilots who work for companies do?
The Job of a Drone Pilot
What a drone sees from high above a city
A drone with a camera
A drone with a package
What do drone pilots who work for companies do?
Building companies get drone pilots to map the land they want to build on.
They also use drones to monitor big projects such as the building of skyscrapers.
Other companies have drone pilots deliver packages or take photos or videos.

5. Drones That Help People
A drone searching in a national park
A building on fire
Police drones in action
What do drone pilots who work for city governments do?
These pilots monitor floods and other natural disasters.
They might also work with firefighters, police forces, and lifeguards.

6. Drones That Explore and Do Research
Watching animals with a drone
A farmer with a drone
How do drone pilots help farmers?
Drone pilots can help farmers
monitor the soil and plant seeds.
tell when the crops are ready.
keep track of animals.

7. Drones to Rescue and Find
Searching with a drone
How do drone pilots help search and rescue teams?
Drone pilots can help search and rescue teams
find people who are lost.
explore dangerous places.
deliver ropes, water, food, and medicine to people in danger.
A drone with a first aid kit

8. Who else might work with drones and drone pilots?
More Jobs for Drones
The view of nature from a drone camera
Soldiers working with a drone
A military drone pilot
Who else might work with drones and drone pilots?
Animal and nature projects can work with drone pilots to monitor wild animals and forests.
Soldiers can use drones to take aerial photographs and videos before soldiers go into dangerous places. Larger drones can also carry weapons.

9. Even More Jobs for Drones
A drone’s view from inside a cave
A drone’s view of a volcano
An archaeologist
Who else might work with drones and drone pilots?
People who make maps or extreme movies can use drones to fly into unknown or hard-to-reach places.
Archaeologists can fly drones with special cameras over the earth to figure out where to dig.

10. How to Become a Drone Pilot
Flying a drone as a hobby
A pilot
Doing drone research
Editing photos and videos on a computer
What do drone pilots need to learn or study?
Drone pilots may need to
complete courses and know all the drone laws.
take drone pilot courses.
learn coding to program drones that fly themselves.
complete photo and video courses.
study a field related to their interest.
complete continuing education courses as technology improves.
Learning about plants

11. Vocabulary aerial adj. archaeologist n. in or from the air
a person who studies objects belonging to ancient times

12. Vocabulary firefighter n. lifeguard n.
a person who fights destructive fires
lifeguard n.
a person who works at a beach or a swimming pool to rescue people who are in danger in the water

13. Vocabulary package n. natural disaster n. phr.
a sudden and violent event in nature (such as an earthquake or flood) that causes a lot of damage
package n.
a box or bag sent by mail, carried easily, or given as a present

14. Vocabulary skyscraper n. remote control n. phr.
something that allows you to operate a television, etc. from a distance
skyscraper n.
a very tall building with many floors