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Yellowstone: America's First National Park
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Understand facts about nature and the present perfect.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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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.
Answer key
- Yellowstone contains beautiful mountains, deep canyons, lakes and rivers.A list of four natural features joined with commas and “and”.
- Yellowstone is host to many different species of plants.“Is host to” means is home to.
- The area has had three major eruptions in the last three million years.“Has had” is the present perfect up to now. Small numbers can be words or digits.
- But each year, there are thousands of earthquakes at Yellowstone.“Thousands of” means many thousands.
- It erupts about every hour or hour and a half.“About every hour” means roughly once an hour.