Twenty-Five Years of the Dragonfly Festival at Bitter Lake
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
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge holds a festival.
- A2
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge celebrates 25 years of its Dragonfly Festival.
- B1
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Roswell, New Mexico, celebrates 25 years of its annual fall Dragonfly Festival.
- B2
Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Roswell, New Mexico, celebrates 25 years of its annual fall Dragonfly Festival.
- C1
Where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the southern plains in Roswell, New Mexico, water appears in many forms.
- C2
Where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the southern plains near Roswell, New Mexico, water appears in unexpected variety.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- refuge
- a safe place that protects animals and plants in nature
- shallow
- not deep, with only a short distance from the top to the bottom
- species
- a group of animals or plants that are the same type
- diverse
- including many different types of things or living creatures
- release
- to let an animal or person go free after holding them
- rewarding
- making you feel happy and satisfied because you are doing something useful
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by US Fish and Wildlife Service. Read the original for the full report.