B1 · 5 minutes · Nature and travel

Yosemite: A Park of Extremes

Yosemite National Park in California has huge cliffs, giant trees and many waterfalls. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand descriptions and the past of the land.

Words to know

stunning: Very beautiful.
waterfall: Water falling down from a high place.
preserve: To keep something safe and unchanged.

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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 “Yosemite: A Park of Extremes”, America's National Parks, VOA Learning English, published 2016-06-10. Public domain.

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