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Slow English podcast.

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Today we will be reading

Swimming

by Leo Leone.

Read slow

English children's books with me.

A happy school

of little red fish

lived in a corner of the sea

somewhere.

They were all red.

Only one of them was black.

Black as a muscle shell. He swam faster

than his brothers and sisters.

His name was Swimmie.

One day, a bad tuna fish,

swift,

fierce, and very hungry,

came darting through the waves.

In one gulp,

he swallowed all the little red fish.

Only Swimmie escaped.

He swam away

in the deep wet world.

He was scared,

lonely,

and very

sad.

But

the sea was full of wonderful creatures.

And as he swam from marvel to marvel,

Simmyi was happy again.

He saw a medusa

made of rainbow jelly.

A lobster

who walked about like a watermoving

machine.

Strange fish

pulled by an invisible thread.

A forest of seaweeds

growing from sugar candy rocks.

An eel

whose tail

was almost

too far away to remember.

Too far away.

and sea anemies

who looked like pink palm trees

swaying in the wind.

Then

hidden in his dark shade of rocks and

weeds,

he saw a school of little fish,

just like his own.

Let's go

and swim and play and see things.

he said happily.

We can't,

said the little red fish.

The big fish will eat us.

But you can't just lie there, said

Swimmie.

We must think of something.

Swimmie thought

and thought

and thought.

Then suddenly he said, "I have it.

We are going to swim all together

like the biggest fish in the sea.

He taught them how to swim

close together,

each in his own place.

And when they had learned to swim like

one giant fish,

he said, "I'll be the eye."

And so they swam in the cool morning

water

and in the midday sun.

and chased the big fish away.

The end.

I have a few questions

for you.

First one,

why do you think Swimmie

managed to escape from the big fish?

Two.

Was the eel's tail

long

or short?

Three,

why was swimming

the eye when they made the big fish?

and four.

What do you think the moral of this

story is?

Comment your answers down below.

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
swim /swɪm/ A1	verb - to move through water using your arms and legs
fish /fɪʃ/ A1	noun - an animal that lives in water and has fins and gills
swift /swɪft/ B1	adjective - moving or acting quickly
fierce /fɪrs/ B1	adjective - very aggressive or violent
gulp /ɡʌlp/ A2	noun - the act of swallowing something quickly
escape /ɪˈskeɪp/ A2	verb - to get away from a dangerous or unpleasant situation
lonely /ˈloʊnli/ A2	adjective - sad because one has no friends or company
sad /sæd/ A1	adjective - feeling sorrow or unhappiness
marvel /ˈmɑːrvəl/ B2	noun - something that causes wonder or astonishment
medusa /mɪˈdjuːzə/ B2	noun - a sea creature with a bell-shaped body and stinging tentacles
lobster /ˈlɒbstər/ A2	noun - a large marine crustacean with a cylindrical body and large claws
eel /iːl/ A2	noun - a long, snake-like fish with smooth, slimy skin
sway /sweɪ/ B1	verb - to move or cause to move slowly back and forth
hidden /ˈhɪdən/ A2	adjective - kept out of sight; concealed
chase /tʃeɪs/ A2	verb - to follow and try to catch someone or something