6 Minute English - Big hills or small mountains? | Текст песни

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• Big hills or small mountains?

Read and listen to the story online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1630_144_6min_backup/page16.shtml

Vocabulary from the programme:

• locals
people who live in a very specific area (informal)

• classified as
put into a group with other similar things or people

Example:
Mynydd Graig Goch in North Wales is soon to be classified as a mountain.

• assumed
supposed something to be true, perhaps wrongly

Example:
The officials assumed that the hill was less than 2,000 feet high even though they hadn't measured it.

• cartographers
people whose job it is to draw maps

• downgrade
to give less importance to something or someone than they had before

• mounds of earth
small piles of soil which look like very small hills

• the summit
the top, peak or highest point of a mountain

Example:
The mountaineer wanted to reach the summit before lunchtime.