Blue fins

Title - Blue Fins
Authoress - Sarah Axten
Publishing – Macmillan Readers

It's hot. The sun is shining. The sky is blue.
The hot sun is shining in the blue sky.

Jen lives in Australia. Jen and her friends are not at college today. It is the weekend.

Jen is on the beach.
She's standing on the hot sand.
She's waving to her boyfriend, Rick.
Rick and Jen's friends are in the sea.
They are swimming and surfing

Jen - Hi, Rick!

Rick is very happy. He has a new surfboard.
The surfboard is red and white.
Rick's favourite sport is surfing.

Rick - I'm going surfing. My new surfboard is very fast. It's great!

Jen - I'm going swimming. I'm going to look at the fish underwater. See you later!

Jen walks along the beach. She sits on some rocks.
Jen puts her blue rubber fins on her feet.
She puts the yellow mask and snorkel on her face.

The water is warm. Her blue fins splash loudly.

Jen takes a big breath. She dives under the water. She over her blue fins and swims very quickly. She goes down and down.

She can see fish and plants. She can see fish and plants through her yellow mask.
The fish and plants are very beautiful.

The fish swim all round her. Jen can see yellow fish. She can see blue fish. There are green, red and white fish.

Jen looks at the plants. They grow on the rocks. There are tall plants. There are small plants.

Jen touches the plants. Some plants are soft. Some plants are hard. Fish live in the plants and rocks.
Jen sees a sea-urchin. She doesn't touch the sea-urchin. It's dangerous. It has sharp spines.

Jen swims up to get air. Her snorkel comes out of the water. Jen takes a big breath.
She dives down under the water again.

Jen swims past a large rock. Suddenly she stops. She sees a dolphin. It cannot swim.
The dolphin is in a net.

The net is round the dolphin's body.
The net is round the rocks. The dolphin cannot swim up to get air.
The beautiful, blue dolphin is dying.

The dolphin moves its