Ready to climb a tree?
Join Dan and Kate for the second part of our programme on tree climbing, as they discuss some record-breaking trees and hear what it's like to spend the night at the top of a tree.
This week's question:
In which country would you find the world’s oldest tree?
a) Australia
b) Tanzania
c) Sweden
Listen out for the answer in the programme!
Listen to the programme
Tree climbing: Part 2
Vocabulary from the programme
- astonishing
surprising and amazing
- circumference
the distance around a circle
- diameter
the distance across a circle
- to camp
to sleep outdoors, usually in a tent or under a temporary shelter
- canopy
something that spreads out above you
- hammock
a swinging bed made of cloth or rope
- hell of a…
an informal phrase that emphasises any quality you're talking about
- for all intents and purposes
in a practical sense
- wilderness
an area of land that's never been developed by man
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