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Interviewing Your Loved Ones- Project

Please read the following text by Brendan Burchard. Then, answer the following questions.

In this lesson, we will test your reading comprehension skills. There is a text with questions after to complete. Here is vocabulary found with in the text.

Preperation: Vocabulary

• origin- the explanation for how something started

• spirit- the part of a living thing which is not the body and you can't see or touch it

• worship- to pray to

• tribe- a group of people, usually connected to each other by place or culture

• weapon- something used to hit or hurt people

• invade- to attack a place with an army

• support- to make something stronger

• fake- looks real but is not

Read the following text:

(1) Fairies today are the stuff of children's stories, little magical people with wings, often shining with light. Typically pretty and female, like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan, they usually use their magic to do small things and are mostly friendly to humans.

(2) We owe many of our modern ideas about fairies to Shakespeare and stories from the 18th and 19th centuries. Although we can see the origins of fairies as far back as the Ancient Greeks, we can see similar creatures in many cultures. The earliest fairy-like creatures can be found in the Greek idea that trees and rivers had spirits called dryads and nymphs. Some people think these creatures were originally the gods of earlier, pagan religions that worshipped nature. They were replaced by the Greek and Roman gods, and then later by the Christian God, and became smaller, less powerful figures as they lost importance.

(3) Another explanation suggests the origin of fairies is a memory of real people, not spirits. So, for example, when tribes with metal weapons invaded land where people only used stone weapons, some of the people escaped and hid in forests and caves. Further support for this idea is that fairies were thought to be afraid of iron and could not touch it. Living outside of society, the hiding people probably stole food and attacked villages. This might explain why fairies were often described as playing tricks on humans. Hundreds of years ago, people actually believed that fairies stole new babies and replaced them with a 'changeling' – a fairy baby – or that they took new mothers and made them feed fairy babies with their milk.

(4) While most people no longer believe in fairies, only a hundred years ago some people were very willing to think they might exist. In 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took two photos of her cousin, nine-year-old Frances Griffiths, sitting with fairies. Some photography experts thought they were fake, while others weren't sure. But Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, believed they were real. He published the original pictures, and three more the girls took for him, in a magazine called The Strand, in 1920. The girls only admitted the photos were fake years later in 1983, created using pictures of dancers that Elsie copied from a book.

Answer these Questions after the text.

True of False

1. Fairies are not usually male.

A. True

B. False

C. Not given

2. Newer religions changed how people thought of fairies.

A. True

B. False

C. Not given

3. People used iron to protect themselves from fairies.

A. True

B. False

C. Not given

4. People thought very good babies were presents from the fairies.

A. True

B. False

C. Not given

5. Arthur Conan Doyle created some of the fake photos.

A. True

B. False

C. Not given

6. Elsie and Frances were surprised Arthur Conan Doyle believed them.

A. True

B. False

C. Not given

This year on May 25th, the USA celebrated the holiday Memorial Day. This is a day where we give our thanks to the people who have served in the military. It falls on the last Monday of May and all schools and most businesses are closed.

Homework assignemnt: Now that Spain has entered phase 1, I encourage you to leave the house and get some fresh air. Walk around your neighborhood or a place of your choosing and tell me in a few paragraphs:

What did you do?

Where did you go?

What/Who did you see?

What was the weather like?

How did you feel?

This lesson is based on TV series from Science Channel called How It’s Made. The lesson focuses on Present Simple Passive Voice. Please watch the video and complete the worksheet with it.

This TED talk lesson plan is based on a short video by Chris Anderson titled “Questions no one knows the answers to”. This time students get a lot of grammar exercises on asking questions (direct and indirect ones) and discuss some hard ones.