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课件网) Warm up Are you going to go to the cinema tomorrow griffin centaur mermaid Read the words. Review-words dragon unicorn harpies Read the words. Review-words eagle feather claw horn Guess the words. Review-words harpies dragon eagle centaur griffin mermaid unicorn 1 2 3 4 5 Story time. Story time. Story time. Story time. Story time—let’s watch. Fact: The characters in legends were often real people. King Arthur was a real person, but the sword in the stone is a legend. When we read books or someone tells us something, the information ca be fact or fiction Fact means something which we know happened, is real or is true. Fiction means something which isn’t real. It is imaginary. 1. Read and talk with your friend. 1. Read and talk with your friend. Think of three kinds of fiction texts and three kinds of fact text. Myths and legends were some of the first stories which people told. Both of them are kinds of fiction. In Greek myths there is usually a hero, beasts, a quest with challenges (difficult things the hero must do) and someone who helps the hero. Do you know any myths or legends Talk about them. Who is in them What do they do 2. Read the story. Copy and complete the diagram. Jason and the Argonauts Jason was the son of a Greek king. His uncle, Pelias, was very bad and killed Jason’s father because he wanted to become king. To protect Jason, his mother sent him to live with a centaur. When he was older, Jason wanted to be king, so Pelias sent him on a very dangerous quest. He had to get the Golden Fleece and take it back to Pelias. This was difficult to get because a dragon looked after it. 2. Read the story. Copy and complete the diagram. Jason sailed in the Argo, a special ship, with many other heroes who were called the Argonauts. They had a lot of challenges: they had to fight the harpies and sail between two big rocks. Jason finally arrived at the home of King Aetes, who gave him some more challenges. Medea, Aetes' daughter helped Jason to get the fleece. On his way home, he had to escape from the sirens. He got home but he never became king. 2. Read the story. Copy and complete the diagram. 3. Look at the picture and read the story. Complete the sentences about the story. You can use 1,2,3,or 4 words. A long time ago there were two Greek kings. Minos was the king of an island called Crete and Aegeus was the king of a city called Athens. Minos built a labyrinth on his island. Inside the labyrinth there was a terrible beast which was half man and half bull. It was called the Minotaur. 3. Look at the picture and read the story. As part of a prize to Minos, Aegeus had to send some children to Crete every seven years. Minos put the children in the labyrinth and the Minotaur ate them. Aegeus' son Theseus decided to help the children. He sailed to Crete with the children and killed the Minotaur. Minos' daughter, Ariadne, gave him some string to help him leave the labyrinth. 3. L ... ...
