B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Mammoth Cave: Grand and Gloomy

In Kentucky, the world's longest known cave system stretches for hundreds of kilometres under the ground. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Hear descriptions of a cave system.

Words to know

gloomy: Dark and sad.
seep: To flow slowly through small holes.
entrance: The place where you go in.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.

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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 “Mammoth Cave: Grand and Gloomy”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-10-28. Ashley Thompson wrote this story with materials from the National Park Service. Public domain.

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