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The Statue That Was Brown and Turned Green - B2 Spanish

A B2 reading on the copper of the Statue of Liberty: brown in 1886, about thirty years of oxidation and what its green patina is made of.

La estatua que era marrón y se volvió verde

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Level B2 Reading focus

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Ser and estar for material and state (es de cobre, está verde) with the change verbs volverse verde and quedarse igual

The text explains how the copper Statue of Liberty took about thirty years to oxidise into its green patina and what that patina contains.

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