Saving Baby Whale – level 1

22-10-2018 15:00

This news is about a whale calf. It gets caught in shark nets. It happens off of Australia’s Gold Coast.

People help the calf. They arrive at the scene. They start to work. They work for 45 minutes. The whale mother is nearby. She swims around. After 45 minutes, the calf is free. It swims away with its mother.

Difficult words: calf (a young whale), arrive (come to a place), scene (the place where something happens).

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