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Shadowing the newsreader

Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.

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These fishermen in Yemen are now rich.

Abdulhakeem and his friends are fishermen.

One day, they went fishing as usual.

They found a dead whale.

After this, their lives changed.

There was something special inside the dead whale - 'ambergris'.

Ambergris is expensive.

People use it to make perfume.

Whales make ambergris in their stomachs.

The men took the whale to the beach.

They cut it open.

They found 12 kilogrammes of ambergris inside.

A businessman bought the ambergris for $1.5 million.

Life is difficult in Yemen.

There is a war.

Many people have no homes and little food.

For the Yemeni fishermen, the whale changed everything.

But the group of fishermen won't stop fishing.

They love it.

It is their life.

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