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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1 Young Animals by Rachel Bladen Read by Claire Willey Introduction
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Young animals grow up from babies into adults.
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Some young animals grow up very fast.
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Some young animals grow up slowly.
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What are these young animals?
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What young animals do you like?
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Discover!
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Now read and discover more about young animals.
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Chapter 1.
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Babies Some babies hatch from an egg.
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A mother duck makes a nest by the water.
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She lays her eggs in the nest.
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She sits on the eggs so they stay warm.
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Then the ducklings hatch.
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Some babies don't hatch from an egg.
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They are born from their mother.
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A baby zebra is born from its mother.
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The mother cleans the baby, and then it can stand up and walk.
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It can run when it's one hour old.
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Discover!
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A baby zebra has brown and white stripes.
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Chapter 2.
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Parents.
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Many young animals look the same as their parents.
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Look at these baby seahorses and their parent.
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Some young animals look very different from their parents.
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A caterpillar is a butterfly's baby.
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Some young animals live with their parents for weeks.
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Some young animals live with their parents for years.
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Parents feed and protect their babies.
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Some young animals don't meet their parents.
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A mother sea turtle lays her eggs in the sand.
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Then she goes into the ocean.
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Baby sea turtles hatch from the eggs.
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They don't meet their mother.
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Chapter 3 Help Many adult animals help young animals.
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A young elephant lives with its mother and other elephants.
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The mother feeds the young elephant.
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She cleans it and she gives it water.
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Adult elephants protect the young elephant.
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They help it to walk too.
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A mother chimpanzee carries her babies everywhere.
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A young ostrich lives with its mother and father.
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They help it to feed.
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They also protect it from the rain and the hot sun with their wings.
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Chapter 4 Danger There's danger for young animals.
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Other animals want to eat them.
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How do young animals stay safe?
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Young kangaroos live in their mother's pouch.
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It's safe there.
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Discover!
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Baby kangaroos are very little.
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You can put a baby kangaroo on a spoon.
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This young shark has spots.
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Other animals can't see the shark on the ocean floor.
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This caterpillar has poison in its body.
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Other animals touch the caterpillar and poison goes into them.
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Chapter 5 Food Some young animals drink milk from their mother.
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The milk is good and it helps them to grow.
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A young seal drinks its mother's milk.
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Discover!
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A young seal can grow from 10 kilograms to 30 kilograms in three weeks.
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A young owl doesn't drink milk.
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Its parents feed it frogs, fish, and other little animals.
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A toad eats insects and other little animals.
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A baby toad is very different.
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A baby toad is called a tadpole, and it eats plants.
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Chapter 6 Homes Young bears are born when the weather is very cold.
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The mother makes a home called a den.
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She puts branches and grass in an old tree or under a rock.
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The young bears are warm in the den, and they're safe from other animals.
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Beavers make a home called a lodge.
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They cut down trees and branches, and they make a dam in a river.
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The beavers make a lodge in the water, with branches and mud.
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A young beaver is safe in the lodge.
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Chapter 7 How Animals Learn Young animals learn many things.
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A young eagle learns to fly when it's about ten weeks old.
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The parents help the young eagle to fly.
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Young cheetahs watch their mother hunt.
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This helps them to learn to hunt.
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The mother cheetah gives little animals to her young cheetahs too.
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The young cheetahs learn how to hunt and eat the little animals.
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Discover!
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A cheetah can run more than a hundred kilometers per hour.
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That's very, very fast.
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Chapter 8 How Animals Grow Up A young lion lives with its mother and other lions in a pride.
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When it's about two years old, a young male lion moves to a different pride.
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A young beetle is called a larva.
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The larva looks very different from its parents.
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It grows a pupa.
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When it comes out of the pupa, it's an adult.
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Then it looks the same as its parents.
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Young animals grow up into adults and have babies.
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Their babies have babies too.
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Every day, young animals are born.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 95 sentences and 732 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:00. The speaker talks slowly, about 81 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| discover verb | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | To find or learn something for the first time. |
| elephant noun | /ˈɛlɪfənt/ | A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| hatch verb | /hæt͡ʃ/ | To emerge from an egg. |
| lion noun | /ˈlaɪən/ | A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe. |
| lodge verb | /lɑd͡ʒ/ | To be firmly fixed in a specified position. |
| beaver noun | /ˈbivɚ/ | A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere. |
| kangaroo noun | /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹu/ | A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea. |
| seal noun | /siːl/ | A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax. |
| eagle noun | /ˈiːɡəl/ | Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. |
| poison noun | /ˈpɔɪ.zən/ | A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. |
| nest noun | /nɛst/ | A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. |
| turtle noun | /ˈtɝtl̩/ | Any land, aquatic, or semi-aquatic reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise. |
| sand noun | /sænd/ | Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in… |
| grass noun | /ɡɹɑːs/ | Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
| cut down verb | To cut downward. |
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 6 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, can't, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like discover, elephant, egg.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.