Forestry Commission Clears Beetle From Most 2022 Sites
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
The Forestry Commission fights a bad insect.
- A2
The Forestry Commission clears insects from English woods.
- B1
The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle was discovered at 16 locations in Kent and Sussex in 2022.
- B2
The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle was discovered at 16 locations in Kent and Sussex in 2022.
- C1
The Forestry Commission has eliminated the destructive eight-toothed spruce bark beetle from 13 of the 16 locations in Kent and Sussex where it was discovered in 2022.
- C2
The Forestry Commission has eliminated the destructive eight-toothed spruce bark beetle from 13 of the 16 locations in Kent and Sussex where it was discovered in 2022.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- discover
- to find something for the first time
- clear
- to remove something unwanted from a place
- affected
- influenced or damaged by something
- monitor
- to watch and check a situation carefully over time
- eliminate
- to completely remove or get rid of something
- permanently
- always and forever
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Forestry Commission blog. Read the original for the full report.