Protecting King Shags in the Marlborough Sounds
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 Department of Conservation helps king shags.
- A2
The Department of Conservation is working to protect king shags.
- B1
The king shag is an endangered bird.
- B2
Found only in the Marlborough Sounds, the endangered king shag has seen its population fall to about 550 after several years of poor breeding.
- C1
Found nowhere outside the Marlborough Sounds, the endangered king shag has seen its population fall to about 550 following several years of poor breeding.
- C2
Found nowhere on Earth outside the Marlborough Sounds, the endangered king shag has seen its population dwindle to about 550 after several years of poor breeding.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- endangered
- in danger of disappearing from the world completely
- breeding
- the process in which animals have babies
- colony
- a large group of birds or animals that live together in one place
- coastal
- on the land near the sea
- reduce
- to make something smaller or less in size or amount
- species
- a group of animals or plants that are the same kind and can have babies together
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Department of Conservation (New Zealand). Read the original for the full report.