Fire Amoeba Sets New Temperature Record
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists found a new amoeba.
- A2
Scientists supported by NASA have found a new amoeba.
- B1
Scientists supported by NASA have found a new amoeba.
- B2
Scientists supported by NASA have found an amoeba that can reproduce at 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit).
- C1
In the hot waters of Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, scientists supported by NASA have discovered an amoeba that can reproduce at 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit).
- C2
In the hot waters of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, a microscopic organism lives in conditions once thought too harsh for complex life.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- reproduce
- to produce young plants or animals
- survival
- the state of continuing to live or exist, often despite difficult conditions
- complex
- having many different and connected parts; not simple
- previous
- happening or existing before the one that you are talking about
- encourage
- to make someone more likely to do something, or to make something more likely to happen
- extreme
- very great in degree; not ordinary or usual
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.