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I am Ariel goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for beginners.
The name of the story is the great race.
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this contains the full story as well as my conversation before it.
Today's story is about the chinese zodiac.
It is also called sometimes the origin of the chinese zodiac.
The zodiac is a system of animals which counts time.
There is a western zodiac and a chinese zodiac.
The western zodiac is based around twelve months and the chinese zodiac is based around twelve years.
The time you are born determines which zodiac sign you have.
This year in the chinese zodiac, 2019 is the year of the pig.
I was born in 1993, which was the year of the rooster.
And because I was born in May, I am a water rooster.
By the way, a rooster is a male chicken.
In the story, I use the word chicken instead because it's easier, it's more useful.
Oh, and by the way, my western zodiac sign is Taurus the bull, because I am very stubborn.
So under the chinese zodiac as a rooster, my lucky numbers are five, seven and eight.
My lucky colours are gold, brown and yellow.