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.
This is a story of migrating eels .... In particular ... the long-finned eels of Centennial ... Park, Sydney. These eel breed ... once in their lifetime and they travel quite a distance to reproduce.
Their breeding migration begins ... when the eel leaves ... its pond during the wet ... season ... of autumn. It swims through creeks ... and drainpipes. It slithers over grass to the next ... suburb. It moves across two golf courses. It crosses swampy areas ... and continues south through the densely ... populated suburb of Kensington . It eventually ... arrives at Sydney airport. The 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 ....
At the end ... of the long journey and after the eel lays its eggs, it dies ..., but its offspring float south on the ocean currents, 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 Centennial Park.