B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Crater Lake National Park: A Blue Jewel

In Oregon, a very deep and clear blue lake fills the top of an old volcano. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand superlatives and inverted word order.

Words to know

crater: A large hole at the top of a volcano.
extinct: No longer active or alive.
eruption: The moment when a volcano throws out hot rock and gas.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

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Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Text and audio from “Crater Lake National Park: A Blue Jewel”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-08-12. Public domain.

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