Chinese and Vietnamese ships – level 1

11-06-2014 15:00

A Vietnamese television station shows a video. It is from the South China Sea. The video shows a big boat. The big boat goes behind a small boat. Then the small boat sinks.

The large boat is Chinese. The small boat is Vietnamese. Vietnam says that the Chinese boat hit the Vietnamese boat. China does not agree. They say something different. Both countries blame each other.

Difficult words: sink (go underwater), agree (think/say that something is true), blame each other (when one person says that other person does something wrong and the second person says the same).

Does your country have sea?

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