Please make two separate recordings - the first with your natural speed and the second with your slow one - so that my students are able to copy your pronunciation. Thank you!
Unit 3 Wild life | Reading: The ugliest animals?
BLOBFISH: We love you!
The blobfish isn’t the most beautiful fish on the planet and it isn’t the most common. It’s a dull colour and you don’t usually see it because it lives 1,000 metres under the seas near Australia.
But now the blobfish is famous because people say that it’s the ugliest animal in the world. There are photos and articles about it in magazines and on the internet. This is really good for the blobfish and for other ‘ugly’ animals. But why?
Every year, thousands of species of animals become extinct. We often see information about the most interesting, the most beautiful and the most colourful, such as whales, butterflies or pandas. But some of the ugliest animals are also some of the rarest, and they also need our help.
On lists of the world’s ‘ugliest’ animals, the blobfish is often number one, but there are other fantastic creatures on the lists. For example, the monkey with the biggest nose (the proboscis monkey) and the frog with the weirdest face (the purple frog).
Are they really ugly? No, they’re interesting and rare. The best idea is to protect all animals.
Thank you so much!