Flow English Advanced: Lesson 16
Hungry Hippos Need Bees
There are four hippos that are best friends. They all live in Hippoville, Florida which is near New Port Richey, Florida. One hippo lives on the west side of town in Hippoville. The other hippos live on the east, north, and south sides of town with respect to one another.
It turns out that Hippoville is sort of near Weeki Wachee, Florida. They like living in Hippoville and they like living near Weeki Wachee. They like living in Hippoville because hippos are highly respected in Hippoville, Florida and they get paid to play games and eat marbles all day long. The hungry hippos love to eat marbles in Hippoville because the marbles are made of sugar, vitamin C, and hibiscus flowers. They are candy marbles.
Hippo life is good in Hippoville, but there is a major problem. The hippos are starting to run out of candy marbles to eat!
As soon as the hippos realize they are running out of marbles, they decide to hold a meeting. They invite beautiful mermaids from Weeki Wachee as well as shiny green-gold bees from New Port Richey to attend the meeting. They need the mermaids and bees to help make the candy marbles. The mermaids and bees know how to grow the best hibiscus flowers.
The mermaids and bees and hippos agree to work together. They come up with a plan to solve several problems at once. The mermaids and bees will grow the hibiscus flowers and the hippos will pass a law to provide universal health care for the mermaids and bees.
The hibiscus flowers end up growing very quickly because they are happy looking at the gorgeous mermaids and sparkling bees that take care of them. Soon there are billions and billions of delicious new marbles for the hungry hungry hippos to eat. The bees and mermaids are happy because they are confident they will be taken care of if they get sick or injured in the future…
Vocabulary:
hippos: hippopotamuses
with respect to: referring to something
one another: each other
turns out: to be found out or known
sort of: to almost be something
highly respected: very respected
all day long: for the whole day
marbles: small hard ball (used in games)
As soon as: just after or at the same time
as well as: in addition to
come up with: make, put together
at once: at the same time
pass a law: make a law
universal health care: health care for everybody
end up: do something that was not planned
gorgeous: beautiful
take care: provide for, nourish, protect
billions and billions: too many to count, very very large number
taken care of: helped, provided for
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