It was 1867. Some sailors said they saw a dangerous, giant monster living in the cold waters of the ocean. Some ships tried to find and kill it, but they never returned.
People said it looked like a whale.
"It was 300 feet long and a mile wide!"
"Water come out of its back. It was alike a big, underwater explosion."
20,000,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
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Vocabulary:
- assistant: someone who helps another with their work
- brave: not afraid
- cannon: a big very gun to shoot a cannonball
- creature: a living thing
- expert: who knows very well about something
- harbour: a place where ships come and go
- league: 1 league = 5.5 kilometres
- monster: a very evil and dangerous creature
- nightmare: something bad you see in your dream
- professor: someone who studies a lot and knows very much
- silently: quietly
- wound: when your body is cut, you have a wound
- duty: work and reponsibility
- frightened: very afraid
- mysterious: when no one knows about something
- secret: something you don't want anyone to know
- shark: a big, dangerous fish in the sea
- terrified: very afraid
- freedom: state of being free
- impossible: can not be done
- scream: to give a loud, high voice because you are afraid
- wonderful: very good
- cannibal: someone who eats people
- crew: all the people working on the ship
- escape: get out of
- host: the owner (of a house, ship,...)
- strange: not usual
- surface: not underwater
- bright: with a lot of light
- dig: to make a hole in the ground
- fall asleep: start to sleep
- tank: a big container to hold liquid
- blame for: when you are blamed for doing something bad, you are the guilty one and are responsible to fix it
- pearl: a very beautiful and expensive, perfectly rounded, made by an oyster
- ancient: very old
- lava: a very hot thing, you see this in a volcano eruption
- volcano: a mountain that can erupt and shoot out hot things called lava
- iceberg: a very big ice floating on the sea
- shore: the land near the sea
- terrible: very bad
- whirlpool: a powerful current of water, which suck everything near it in
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