B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Life in Death Valley National Park

Death Valley in California is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, yet people and animals live there. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Hear descriptions of a harsh place.

Words to know

silent: Without any sound.
forgive: To stop being angry with someone; here, to allow mistakes.
survive: To stay alive.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 100% 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 “Life in Death Valley National Park”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-05-06. Public domain.

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