Satellite Tags Follow Recovered Green Sea Turtles Around 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
Team Turtle watches green sea turtles.
- A2
Team Turtle follows green sea turtles in New Zealand.
- B1
The Team Turtle study in New Zealand has tracked 11 recovered green sea turtles since 2025.
- B2
Since 2025, the Team Turtle study in New Zealand has tracked 11 recovered green sea turtles every day for 6 to 12 months.
- C1
Green sea turtles do not breed in New Zealand.
- C2
Green sea turtles do not breed in New Zealand, yet young and sub-adult turtles—those past the early juvenile stage but not yet old enough to breed—often visit the warmer waters around the North Island before returning to nesting…
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- track
- to follow the movements of a person or animal, often using special equipment
- recovered
- healthy again after being sick or hurt
- joint
- done or shared by two or more people or groups working together
- involve
- to include someone or something as part of an activity or group
- channel
- a deep passage of water where boats or sea animals can move
- habitat
- the natural place where a plant or animal lives
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Department of Conservation (New Zealand). Read the original for the full report.