Whales in Calais – level 1

12-11-2015 07:00

This new is about whales. Ten whales get on a beach. They get stuck. This beach is in France, in the region of Calais.

People come to the whales. When they come, 6 of the whales are dead. People try to save the rest. They put water on them. They try to move them to the sea. Three whales go back to the sea and live.

Difficult words: whale (a big animal which lives in the sea), stuck (cannot move), the rest (the other four whales).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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