B2 · 5 minutes · Geography

How glaciers shape the land

Part of a geography lecture about moving ice.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a natural process explained in a lecture.

Words to know

glacier: A very large mass of ice that moves slowly.
scrape: To rub something hard against a surface.
carve: To cut into a shape.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 92% of the words in this lesson.

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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

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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