B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Mesa Verde National Park: Protecting an Ancient Culture

In southwestern Colorado, a national park protects homes that ancient people built into the sides of cliffs. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand descriptions of history and places.

Words to know

ancient: Very old; from a long time ago.
gatherer: A person who collects wild plants for food.
establish: To create or start something officially.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 96% 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 “Mesa Verde National Park: Protecting an Ancient Culture”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-04-15. Public domain.

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