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The big green frog

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Understand colours, animals and simple actions.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

frog
A small green animal that jumps and lives near water.
pond
A small area of still water.
laugh
To make the sound people make when something is funny.

Answer key

  1. A big green frog lives in the pond.“Lives in the”: the s joins “in”: “liv-zin-the”.
  2. He can jump very high.“Can” is weak here: “c’n jump”.
  3. One day he sees a red ball.“One day” starts many stories. You can write one as a word or a digit.
  4. He jumps on the ball and falls into the water.“Falls into” links: “fall-zin-to”.
  5. All the fish laugh at him.“Laugh at him” sounds like “laff-a-tim”.