Cat eats food for 1,000 dollars – level 1

18-12-2014 07:00

This happens at an airport. The airport is in Russia’s Far East. A cat lives at the airport. It gets inside a shop.

There is seafood in there. The cat is hungry. It eats some of the seafood. It has a fish and an octopus. The shop owners are unhappy about this. They must throw away a lot of the seafood. This seafood is worth 1,000 dollars.

There is a video of the cat on the Internet. Many people watch it. Some people want to find the cat. They want to take it home.

Difficult words: octopus (an animal which lives in the sea and has eight arms), owner (person has something), be worth (cost).

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

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