The Major oakoak/əʊk/L1橡树a large tree that has hard wood and produces acorns tree in Sherwood Forest is dead. It was 1,000 years old. It was very big and its trunktrunk/trʌŋk/L1树干the thick main stem of a tree was 11 meters around. Many people came to see it, some from Spain and the USA. The tree was a home for Robin Hood long ago.
Hot summers made the tree weak so it did not grow leavesleaves/liːvz/L1树叶the flat, green parts of a tree or plant that grow from branches. People feel sad because the tree is gone. A boy named Carter said it was a beautifulbeautiful/ˈbjuːtɪfəl/L1美丽的very nice to look at; pretty tree. The tree will stay in the forestforest/ˈfɒrɪst/L1森林a large area of land covered with many trees and help other animals. People will miss it.
