B2 · 5 minutes · Science

Why bees matter

Part of a short lecture about the role of insects in farming.

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What you’ll practise

Follow the main points and examples in an academic talk.

Words to know

pollinator: An animal, such as a bee, that carries pollen between flowers so that plants produce fruit.
crop: A plant grown in large amounts for food.
pesticide: A chemical used to kill insects that damage plants.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

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

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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