B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

The Strange and Beautiful World of Arches National Park

In Utah, wind and water have shaped red rock into more than two thousand natural arches. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand how natural shapes form.

Words to know

arch: A curved shape, like a bridge.
pressure: Force that pushes on something.
formation: A shape that has formed naturally.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 96% 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 “The Strange and Beautiful World of Arches National Park”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-10-14. Ashley Thompson reported and wrote this story, with materials from the Learning English archive and the National Park Service. Public domain.

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