Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.
London Zoo has lots of animals.
Every year the zookeepers count the animals.
It’s an important job.
The zoo’s famous.
It has 14,000 animals.
This year, some new animals arrived.
Zoo manager Dan Simmonds is excited about them.
Some animals are big, and some are small.
There are big gorillas and small frogs.
The zookeepers have to count all the animals.
It's hard to count the small ones.
Zookeepers count the animals in different ways.
They take photos of the fish.
They don’t count every ant.
They count the different groups of ants.
The keepers play games with some of the animals.
They count them at the same time.
The animals have fun.
The information is very important for many zoos.
The stocktake's very useful.
It's important to find out about the new animals.
The zoo can build bigger areas for them to live.