84. Pretending (Listen and Read)

I like to pretend. I like to make up things that aren't real.

I use my imagination.

I was pretending that I was in a time machine.

I set the date for a prehistoric time.

I turned on the time machine, and it buzzed and whirred and spun madly.

When it stopped spinning, I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle.

I listened carefully to the sounds of the jungle.

I could hear strange animal noises, and the leaves were rustling.

I wasn't sure if I'd gone back in time or had just landed in a jungle somewhere in the twenty-first century.

It didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time.

A very strange bird-like creature with a large beak flew overhead.

I'd never seen anything like it in my life.

I took a few steps out into the long grass and ferns.

I didn't wanna go too far away from my time machine.

I heard a noise over on my right side.

There was a man who looked quite different from me.

He was dressed in an animal skin, and he carried a big stick.

I didn't want him to see me, so I hid behind a tree.

He didn't speak any language that I could understand.

He grunted at someone who must have been in the distance.

Then, I felt the earth shake beneath my feet.

I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the jungle shook.

The man in the animal skin began to run.

I saw why he was running.

A giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the trees.

It was bigger than anything I had ever seen.

My heart began to pound in my chest. It was coming toward me.

I ran toward my time machine and jumped in.

I set the dial for the twenty-first century.

The machine whirred and buzzed. My time machine landed in the twenty-first century.

I got away just in time.