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Pronunciation activities for long ‘e’

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News Stories

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! News Stories is a collection of interesting and feel-good stories from around the world. Each story is written in two levels – beginners and intermediate. All you need to do is identify the highlighted sounds and choose the correct phoneme that represents that sound. News Stories helps you to identify individual sounds in long and more difficult written text. This improves your pronunciation of the words you read and your reading fluency.

Eels travel far

Choose the correct sound: /i:/ (the long ‘e’ sound) or /e/ (the short ‘e’ sound)

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A Sydney eel ... breeds ... once. The eel leaves ... it's pond from a park in Sydney. It swims through creeks ... and drainpipes. It slithers over grass to the next ... suburb. It moves across two golf courses. It crosses swampy areas .... It arrives at the airport. Sydney Airport is next to a bay. It enters ... the bay and swims across the sea ... 2 000 km to New ... Caledonia.

It lays many ... eggs – about 20 million eggs ....

The eel dies ..., but its offspring float back to Australia. They swim to the bay next to Sydney Airport. They move across the swampy land, the ... two golf courses, through the drainpipes and creeks back to the pond in the park'.