B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Yellowstone: America's First National Park

Yellowstone became the world's first national park. It is famous for hot springs, geysers and wildlife. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand facts about nature and the present perfect.

Words to know

canyon: A deep valley with steep sides.
eruption: The moment when a volcano or geyser throws out water, rock or gas.
geyser: A hot spring that shoots water into the air.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 91% of the words in this lesson.

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canyons above B2Look up
species B2Look up
erupts B2Look up

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

Text and audio from “Yellowstone: America's First National Park”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-08-26. Dorothy Gundy adapted this report, with materials from VOA Learning English archive and the National Parks Service. Public domain.

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