B1 · 5 minutes · Lifestyle

How to Keep a Betta Fish

Betta fish are colourful and popular pets. Here is how to give one a healthy home. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand instructions and the passive.

Words to know

tank: A glass container for fish.
substrate: Small stones or sand at the bottom of a fish tank.
decoration: Something added to make a place look nice.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 94% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B1 or below.

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 “How to Keep a Betta Fish”, Health & Lifestyle, VOA Learning English, published 2023-01-02. Gregory Stachel wrote this story for VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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