Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week two day three of your English five a day.
This is the second season of this series that's designed to expand your active vocabulary so
that you can feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
You can access a database of all of our vocabulary we're going to cover today and all of our vocabulary covered in every episode of this season and the previous season on our database that you can find linked in the show notes.
So let's begin with our snapshot that contains everything we're going to cover today.
So listen carefully.
Walking beneath the dense canopy of the forest they admired the lush greenery surrounding them even as a gentle drizzle fell adding to the serene atmosphere.
Among the remnants of an old stone wall they reflected on how nature had reclaimed the area slowly encroaching upon the man made structures over time.
Okay let's dive into today's vocabulary beginning with the noun canopy.
Canopy.
We spell this C-A-N-O-P-Y canopy.
Canopy.
A canopy is a layer of something that spreads over an area like a roof especially branches of trees in a forest.
So if you've ever been in a dense forest and you can't see the sky
because above you are branches and leaves then that ceiling that roof of leaf and branch is a canopy.
So you are under the canopy and that can be fantastic if it rains you might run
for cover under the canopy of leaves when you're caught in a rain storm while you're out walking.
Here's another example sentence.
The tree canopy reaches an average height of 15 meters.