Unit 4 living things around us.0:01
Listen and decide which of the facts in your workbook are true, false or not stated.0:07
An unusual tree and an unusual bird as New Zealand is a long way from anywhere, it has many trees and flowers that you don't find in other places of the world.0:14
New Zealand's best known tree is the Kauri, which can live for as long as 2000 years.0:26
It can grow up to 50 meters high.0:32
The Maori used it to make their wooden boats.0:35
Europeans also used the kauri tree to make their houses.0:38
There are still some of these houses on the older parts of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.0:42
Northland in the north island is a good place to see the kauri trees.0:48
New Zealand's tallest tree is a northland too.0:53
The tree's name is Tane Mahuta.0:56
It is more than 51 meters high and more than 1200 years old.0:59
You can't find the KKP parrot in other parts of the world either.1:05
This parrot is green and gray and it is the heaviest parrot in the world.1:11
It makes a very loud sound and it can live up to 90 years.1:15
Kakapo parrots lived on Stewart island without anyone knowing about them until 1845.1:20
But now there are not many birds of this kind in the country.1:26
Not more than a hundred.1:29
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