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Great Smoky Mountains: America's Most Popular National Park
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Understand descriptions with lists and superlatives.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- wildflower
- A flower that grows naturally, without people planting it.
- autumn
- The season between summer and winter.
- population
- The number of people or animals living in a place.
Answer key
- The area is known for its wildflowers, autumn colors, waterfalls, and black bears.“Is known for” tells us what something is famous for. The verb comes before a list.
- It looks like smoke, and gave the area its name.“Looks like” compares appearances.
- She soon came to love the Great Smoky Mountains.“Came to love” means started to love after some time.
- It is the largest area of protected land east of the Rocky Mountains.“The largest” is the superlative of “large”.
- Visitors also share the park with a large population of black bears.“A large population of” means many.