B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Great Smoky Mountains: America's Most Popular National Park

More people visit the Great Smoky Mountains than any other national park in the United States. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand descriptions with lists and superlatives.

Words to know

wildflower: A flower that grows naturally, without people planting it.
autumn: The season between summer and winter.
population: The number of people or animals living in a place.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.

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wildflowers above B2Look up
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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 “Great Smoky Mountains: America's Most Popular National Park”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-05-13. Ashley Thompson reported this story with materials from the National Park Service and Learning English archives. Public domain.

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