B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Everglades National Park: 'The Liquid Heart of Florida'

The Everglades in South Florida is a huge wetland full of rare plants and animals. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Hear descriptions of wetlands and wildlife.

Words to know

swamp: Wet land partly covered with water.
wonder: Something that is very surprising and beautiful.
mahogany: A tree with hard, dark red wood.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 84% of the words in this lesson.

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uncounted above B2Look up
biological B2Look up
mangrove above B2Look up
cypress above B2Look up
swamps above B2Look up
estuaries above B2Look up
marshes above B2Look up

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 “Everglades National Park: 'The Liquid Heart of Florida'”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-06-03. Jerilyn Watson wrote this report for Learning English. Public domain.

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