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Hello, this is six minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil and I'm Georgina.

How did you spend your free time during the weeks of lockdown Georgina?

Repainting the living room or doing exercise classes in the kitchen?

Actually, Neil, I've been doing some online research into my family history.

I'm investigating my family tree. You know a drawing showing all the relationships between the different members of my family.

Ah, how interesting and how appropriate because trees are the subject of this program.

Not family trees, but real living in the forest trees.

Well, Neil, this might surprise you, but according to some people,

trees also have families.

There are mother trees who support and help feed child trees.

That's right. According to Suzanne Simard, one of the world's leading tree researchers, trees should be seen as intelligent. They communicate with each other, they help each other. And as you mentioned Georgina they can even tell their family members.

So a tree can have its own family tree. Amazing. Tell me more.

Okay, Georgie, but first let me ask you my quiz question. The largest trees in a

wood or forest are called mother trees. As they're the biggest, mother trees usually

have the longest most connected routes. So my question is this, what is the world's largest currently living tree? Is it A a baobab tree? B a giant redwood tree or C a quoia tree.

Mm. I've seen photos of redwood trees in California and they're huge, so I'll say B, a giant

redwood. Okay, Georgian, I'm sure you only chose that because it's the easiest one to

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