Baby hippo – level 1
25-05-2015 15:00
This news is about a baby hippo. Her name is Devi. She lives at a zoo. The zoo is in California. Devi is eight weeks old.
She goes to the hippo pool for the first time. She watches zoogoers through the glass. They watch her, too.
Her father is not at the hippo pool. Devi is there only with her mother.
Difficult words: pool (an area with water), zoogoer (a person who goes to a zoo).
You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.
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