Stranded Orca Saved After Hours of Help From Some FriendsThis is a true story about a group of people that helped a whale. The article is short and it has great photos but some of the vocabulary might be a bit difficult. Try to do this lesson without using your dictionary.

Before you read think about these questions:

• Have you ever seen an animal in the wild?
• Would you like to see animals in the wild?
• Have you ever seen a whale in an aquarium, a zoo or in the ocean?
• What type of whale was it?

Read the text again and do the following vocabulary matching exercise.

Exercise 1Go to the text again, and find the words from the first list. Try and guess their meaning, and then match each word to a word with the same meaning in the second list. After you check your answers, read the text again.

Example: stranded > lost