B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Desert Diversity at Joshua Tree National Park

In southern California, two deserts meet in a park named after an unusual tree. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Hear place descriptions and phrasal verbs.

Words to know

iconic: Very famous and representing something.
desert: A dry area with very little rain.
boulder: A very large rock.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 91% of the words in this lesson.

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southeastern above B2Look up
boulders above B2Look up
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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

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 “Desert Diversity at Joshua Tree National Park”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-07-15. Ashley Thompson wrote this report, with additional materials from the National Park Service. Public domain.

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