Protecting the Flesh-Footed Shearwater in New Zealand
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 birds in New Zealand.
- A2
The Department of Conservation in New Zealand highlighted the flesh-footed shearwater.
- B1
The flesh-footed shearwater spends the southern winter in waters off Japan to grow new feathers.
- B2
The flesh-footed shearwater spends the southern winter in waters off Japan to grow new feathers.
- C1
Having spent the southern winter in waters off Japan growing new feathers, the flesh-footed shearwater returned to New Zealand in October to breed.
- C2
Having spent the southern winter in waters off Japan growing new feathers, the flesh-footed shearwater returned to New Zealand in October to breed.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- breed
- to have babies, especially used for animals and birds
- highlight
- to bring special attention to something so that people notice it
- migratory
- travelling from one part of the world to another at the same time each year
- offshore
- in the sea, not far from the land
- coastal
- on the land near the sea
- evidence
- facts or signs that show clearly that something is true
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Department of Conservation (New Zealand). Read the original for the full report.