Shark (1)

“Are you going spear fishing?” Lizzie asked.

“Yes,' said her older brother, Sam.

“Can I come with you?”

“No.”

“Oh, please. You know I'm a good swimmer,” said Lizzie.

A few minutes later, Sam and Lizzie were in the warm sea. Fish swam all around them. The colours of the fish were bright in the sunlight.

 “They're beautiful!”thought Lizzie.

 Sam pointed his spear gun and shot a big blue fish. A cloud of red blood came from the dead  fish. Then they saw the shark. Sharks are not always dangerous, but this shark could smell blood. When sharks smell blood, they want to kill and eat. The shark's teeth closed on the dead  fish and pulled the spear gun from Sam's hand. Sam and Lizzie swam quickly to a small island. The island was only a metre wide and a few centimetres above the water. Sam pushed Lizzie up into the island and then he climbed up. He fell and cut his leg. Then they stood on the island and watched the shark.

“We're OK,” Sam told his sister.

“Someone will see us.”

But there was a bigger island between them and the beach. So nobody could see them. The water washed over their little island, and they nearly fell into the sea. The water washed blood from the cut on Sam's leg into the sea. Then they saw a second shark.

Taken from Junior Comprehension 2, 2000