ndorga

rmuinato
spuesga yfria
xpihnoe fhfiprpgo

rcuenat
 dragon
Pegasus minotaur |
| fairy ˈmaɪnətɔːr|
phoenix ˈpeɡəsəs|.
Hippogriff
|ˈfiːnɪks| |
ˈhɪpə(ʊ)ɡrɪf|
Centaur
|ˈsentɔː|
Legend or Truth
Lesson objectives
• participate in conversations and
discussion;
• identify details while listening;
• use more complex and
compound grammar structures
and less frequent vocabulary.
Assessment criteria
• express their ideas clearly;
• do the listening tasks with 80%
of accuracy;
• use advanced vocabulary and
grammar structures while
talking.
What is the difference between myths and legends?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FBqmpK6Djw
What myths and
legends do you
know?
Read the beginning of an article about
urban legends. Answer the following
questions:
It must be true, I read it on the Internet ...
1. What is an urban legend?
Urban legends are funny, surprising or scary stories that
are told again and again, often by people saying that they
2. Where can people read urban
happened to 'a friend of a friend'. These days they're legends?
often passed on by email or collected together on
websites. Most urban legends are stories that people 3. Are urban legends ever true?
have made up, but not always. A few turn out to be
completely true, and others are based on actual events,
4. Why do people change some
but have been changed to make them sound more stories?
interesting or shocking. For example, have you heard the
one about the dead kangaroo, the falling cow or the
exploding house?
Work in pairs. Look at pictures A-C of famous urban legends and
the words below. Guess what happened in each story.
a yacht the crew rescue sink
get rid of a bug insecticide

|jɑːt|: yacht
/ɪnˈsek.tɪ.saɪd/: a chemical substance made and
used for killing insects, especially those that eat
plants
Listen and check your ideas.

a yacht the crew rescue sink

get rid of a bug insecticide
 Listen again. Fill in the gaps with one word.

THE DEAD KANGAROO STORY

sailors
1. In the year 1987, the most skilled _______ globally were participating in the yacht
race
_____ known as the America's Cup, which took place near the shores of Fremantle.
sailors
2. During the competition, one of the ________ went for a drive in the outback and
accidentally ran over a _________ . kangaroo
3. While the sailor was taking some _______, the kangaroo regained consciousness.
photos
Do you think THE FALLING COW STORY
these stories 4. While navigating tranquil waters, the boat experienced an unexpected occurrence
are true? as a _____ plummeted from the _____.
cowof a _______ cargo plane informed
5. Eventually, the pilot sky the ______ about the
incident Russian police
6. Prior to taking off from their Siberian airbase, the plane’s ______ had stolen some
crew
The exploding house story is true _______.
THE EXPLODINGcows HOUSE STORY

California
7. A woman from ______ had been attempting to eliminate all the _______ in her
bugsfor years.
home
bombs
8. She placed all the bug ________ in her house, but regrettably, she hadn't read the
_________. instructions
Listen to the recording and answer the
questions:
1 a Why was the sailor in Australia?
b Was the kangaroo dead?
2 a What was wrong with the woman's house?
b How did she try to solve the problem?
Group work

Work in groups of
three. Retell the
stories.
Assessment criteria:
Speak no less than 1 minute.
Organization. A well-structured
story (introduction, plot, and
conclusion).
Grammar. Accurate and consistent
use of past tenses.
Lexical Resource. Use subject-
specific vocabulary.
Pronunciation is intelligible.
 Read the
recording
script and
underline
Past tenses
 Task 4. Look at the verb forms in bold (in your
handouts) in sentences 1-3 and complete
these rules with Past Simple or Past
Continuous.

• We use the ________

Past Simple for completed actions
Narrative verb in the past. These tell the main events of the
forms story in the order that they happened.
• We use the Past
_________
Continuous for a longer action
that was in progress when another (shorter)
action happened.
• We also use the Past
________
Continuous for background

information that isn't part of the main story.

 Task 5. Choose the correct
words in these rules.
• We usually use the Past Perfect
Simple/Continuous for an action that was
completed before another action in the past.
Narrative verb
forms • We usually use the Past Perfect
Simple/Continuous for a longer action that
started before another action in the past (and
often continued up to this past action).
 Task 6. Fill in the gaps with had, ‘d,
verb + ing or past participle. How do
we make these verb forms
negative.
Narrative verb PAST PERFECT SIMPLE
forms
Subject + had or _____
‘d + _____ .
past participle

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

had
Subject + ______ or ‘d + been + verb + ing.
______
Read another famous urban legend. Choose the
correct verb forms.
A few years ago. Robert Monaghan, from Ballymena in Northern Ireland, 1) had/had had a
very bad day. He 2) crossed/was crossing the road near his home when a van 3) hit/was
hitting him. While he 4) was getting/got to his feet, another car 5) ran him over/was
running him over and then 6) drove away/ had driven away. Some people who 7)
walked/had been walking past 8) stopped/were stopping to help Robert. They 9) were
calling/had called an ambulance and 10) helped/had helped him to his feet. When the
ambulance 11) had been arriving/arrived, everyone 12) stepped/was stepping back —
everyone except Robert, who 13) didn't realise/wasn't realising what everyone 14)
waited/had been waiting for and was run over by the ambulance.
Work in pairs.
Compare answers.

How many
accidents did
Robert Monaghan
have in one day?
Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in
brackets. Sometimes more than one verb form is possible.
had been trying
1. I know that Rory________ (try) to find a new job for ages.
called was watching
2. My brother ____ (call) while I _____ (watch) the football.
hadn’t gone proposed
3. Robin and Cecilia ______ (not go out) together for very long when he_______
(propose) to her.
got realised had left
4. When I _____ (get) home, I ______ (realise) that I ______(leave) my mobile at work.
arrived had already been waiting
5. By the time the others _____ (arrive), we _____ (already wait) for over two hours.
was walking met
6. While Angela _______ (walk) home, she _______ (meet) an old school friend that she
hadn’t seen
_______ (not see) for years.
Reflection

What interesting facts about urban legends do you know?