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"I'm a fish " he protested. "A fish, I tell you "
But because Brian only had a tiny marine voice,
and because the human girl didn't speak Fishese,
she didn't hear him. She held him up to the light
by his tail between her thumb and forefinger and watched with a gleeful grin as
he couldn't breathe
and began to thrash about.
His life flashed before his beady little eyes.
Swimmy swimmy swim.
Swim swim swim.
Swimmy swimmy swim.
Swim swim swim.
Exercise: your final exercise is to read the above extract closely. Decide how
the story could best be SHOWN not told and retell it in that form. Please pay close
attention to the original piece but do not use words to describe the images - use
your images to describe the words.
CONGRATULATIONS ! You have finished the chapter.
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