have you heard about the loch ness monster؟nessie is monster who lives in a deep lake in scotland. read and listen to a story about nessie (2) I am the loch Ness Monster My nickname is Nessie andn people have been hunting me fer generations I am 947 Years old and have lived in mygrotto in loch Ness all my life . I am basically quite a friendly monster . I have only ever eaten one human but he tasted very bad so I went back to fish. I know I look a bit scary because I am so huge and my neck is so long but I really can not help the way I look any more than you can (3) Ttis is my mum and dad. Do I Look them? My mum had a very long neck and ny dad was very dark and furry so I have inherted all of these features. (4) On top of that I come from a very long line of monsters that date back to prehistoric times. I believe I am distantly related to a dinosaur called Mamenchisaurus,which lived in the late Jurassic period. It had a body about 25 metres long and a 14-metre neck! It also had a tiny head, a huge, bulky body and possibly it had two brains - that is probably why I am so intelligent and no one has ever caught me. (5) This is my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather! Now - I،d like to tell you the story of my grotto. That is where I live.It is a huge cave about 300 metres underneath the bottom of Loch Ness, (6) opposite the town of Drumnadrochit. A ,Loch, is alake. Can you see the town on the other side of the loke? It has a very nice view of Urquhart castle when I come straight up to the surface, (7) but nowadays there are too many tourists and cameras waiting so I usually only use this way at night. My cave is very comfortable and I had lived there very happily until last year when things began to get very uncomfortable indeed. This is Mad Mick. Does he want to catch me too? (8) It all began with the arrrival of a mad scientist (Mad Mick) and his underwater search team. I do not really know what they wanted but they disturbed me a lot, and then I became very anxious about my cave. Their first attempt to find me was just really noisy. They came out onto the lake in a boat and put this piece of sonar equipment into the water so they could listen for sounds - a ,hydrophone, I think it is called. (9) Doyou think Mad Mick will hear me? of course down at the bottom of the lake the water is very dark and murky nad you can not really see much. Ihave to use my own sonar systems to catch fish. Anyway, (10) one morning I was very sleepy and my sonar systems were not workigg very well and I swam right into the scientists equipment OUCH! I think I said some bad words which they picked up on their equipment. I found out later that they said I sounded like a mixture of a ,snorting horse, and ,an eating pig, - now that was not very nice, was it? (11) goolo goolo oh dear! Mad Mick has heard me... So - Mad Mick and the other men went off for a few days and I thought my life would be quiet after that. (12) But I was wrong!! The next week I was happily going for a morning swim around the bottom of the lake when I discovered a sort of round space-moving around in the dark water. (13) It was yellow, and through it is windows I could see that man Mad Mick again. It had lots of flashing lighs and cameras, and when the men me the lights started flashing even more. I suppose they wanted lots of photographs. I HATE CAMERAS! Mad Mick can see me through the window. (14) Suddenly, with no warning,a long dart flew out of the Yellow probe and hit me in the side. OUCH! I think it was some sort of stun gun, as I immediately felt very sleepy.I swam slowly back to my grotto and slept for the rest of that day. when I woke up,I was still very angry with Mad Mick! (15) After a few days I felt bettter and things on the lake were quiet. The weather was nice and foggy so I could swim around more on the surface. one day I swam all the way up to Lochend near Inverness, which is quite a long way! The whole lake is 24 miles long, so you can imagine I was quite tired when I got back. Just as I was having a nice reat in my cave, it started ... (16) ...the banging sounds and thrn the explosions! I han a look outside my cave, and there was Mad Mick and the yellow underwater probe again! This time it just wasnot funny! They had planted dynamite in the rocks near my grotto. After the explosions the rocks were falling down and I thought they would block the door to the cave!! I went outside and decided to swim under the yellow probe and bump it. They went away in a hurry then! (17) Mad Mick is gone. But will he come back again? By now I was desperate.How could I get rid of Mad Mick and his stupid yellow probe before he blocked my lovely cave? For a few days I was very depressed, but they didnot come back. (18) I suppose I had frghened them. And then, a week later, help arrived. It was six oclock in the morning and I had decided to go for swim down the lake. It was foggy and misty and the mountains looked very black against the pale blue sky. I swam towaeds the town of Invermoriston but got out of the water on the other side of the lake. I sat down to rest on the little beach. It was very quiet, and all I could hear was the gentle sound of the water. suddenly a voice said, Hello`. Inearly jumped out of my skin!! (19) Who is it? Is it Mad Mick? I looked round, and there was a small boy with brown hair and a red face. `Hello,I am Robbie, he said. I wasnt scared because Robbie wasnt scared! So I said, `pleased ti meet you. Who are you?he said. Im Nessie, the Monster of the Loch. (20) Oh yes, Ive heard of you. Where do you live? So I told him about my lovely comfortable cave and Mad Micks efforts to destroy my front door. No problem, said Robbie. Ive got an idea! Robbie has got an idea. What is it? So he went home and told his father that he had seen a strange black shape in the Water, Which looked like a monster. Now,Robbies dad worked for the local newspaper and they Wrote a Wonderful story about peopleseeing the Loch Ness Monster at the other end of the lake. (21) So all the tourists With cameras, and Mad Mick and his men, all set off for the other end of the lake to hunt for me. Of course, I didnt go there for weeks- I just stayed at home in mmy comfortable cave near Drumnadrochit. (22) The tourists and Mad MIck couldnt find me! Eventually the toursts, and even Mad Mick and the scientists, gave up and went away because they couldnt find me. So now all is peaceful, and Ive got a quiet life! So Id just like to say,Thank you, Robbie. (23) Activities #before you read check the meaning of these word in your dictionary? Generations neck Inherited Feature Furry Distantly A tiny head Disturbed Scientist Sonar OUCH Desperate Strange Eventually (24) Match the words With meanings. ....Hunt a. Great ....Grotto b. worry ....Loch c. lake ....Scary d. Think ....Huge e. Cave ....Anxious f. Try ....Attempt g. Search ....Equipment h. Horrible ....Murky i. Stop ....Suppose g. Rush ....Hurry k. Dark ....Give up l. Gear #After you read 1. Who is Nessie? 2. Hoy old is it? 3. Where does it live? 4. Who is Mad Mick? The and Thank you Ahmed
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