Two Pandas in Finland – level 2

20-02-2018 07:00

At a zoo in Finland, people unveiled two giant pandas on loan from China. The pandas are enjoying the local snowy weather.

The pandas’ names are Hua Bao and Jin Bao, but people gave them new Finnish names. The Finnish names translate to ‘snow’ and ‘heavy snowfall’.

The pandas are in quarantine right now, but the zoo’s visitors will be able to see them soon.

Difficult words: on loan (being borrowed), unveil (show the media and people for the first time), quarantine (a private, isolated area to make sure something has no diseases from another place on it).

You can watch the original video in the Level 3 section.

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