СОР № 1 Английский язык 8 класс The Natural World
НазадThe Natural World
Задание:
Read the text and retell it to your partner. You have 10 minutes to prepare and 5 minutes to tell your partner what the text is about.
Learners work in pairs. They are given different texts. Teacher gives learners time to read the texts and prepare to retell it to the partner. While one learner is telling the story, the other one is listening and assessing a learner on given criteria.
Learner A Sacred pythons One day a very long time ago some of Naayire people went hunting. They walked and walked in the bush but found nothing. They were very far from home. “We must sleep in the bush,”- the chief said, — “We must find a good place to sleep”. The hunters were not afraid to sleep in the bush but they knew: animals sometimes killed sleeping hunters. And there were some bad people too, in the bush. The hunters came to a place with big trees round it. They decided to rest and sleep on the grass. They didn’t make a fire and ate only some nuts which they carried in their bags. Then they went to sleep. All of them were tired. They slept soundly. They didn’t hear that their enemies were coming nearer and nearer to them. But in one of the trees above the sleeping men something moved and fell down on the head of a young hunter. He jumped up and cried: a big python was on his head! The Naayire people got up quickly and saw the enemies round them. A fight began. Soon the enemies ran away and that was the end of the fight. The Naayire hunters came up to their chief to talk about the fight. “What made you jump up?”- the chief asked. “It was a python,” – he said, — “It fell on my head but it did not kill me!” Then the chief said: “That python saved our lives. Pythons will be sacred animals in our country”. Even today the Naayire people love pythons. If you go into their houses in the rainy season, you will find a python there. The pythons never harm anyone; they don’t eat even the chickens!
python-a very large snake that kills animals for food hunter – a person or an animal that hunts animals for food or for sport enemy-a person who hates or opposes another person fight- to use physical force to try to defeat another person or group of people nuts – the dry fruits of particular trees that grow in a hard shell and can often be eaten Naayire – name of the tribe fall (fell) – to suddenly go down onto the ground
Learner B The magic crocodile There was a big cave in Southern Africa. The top part of the cave was dry and there was water in the bottom part of it. Many animals lived in the dry part and a crocodile lived in the bottom part of it. He liked to lie in the water. Sometimes he came out of the cave for a short time. One day a hunter with his bow and arrow came near the cave. He saw the crocodile and decided to kill him. He aimed at the crocodile but he became blind at once! The hunter dropped his arrow and he began to see again. He saw the smiling crocodile. The hunter aimed at the crocodile a second time and again he became blind. The hunter ran back to the village and told the people about the crocodile and what happened to him. The people of the village didn’t believe him. Many of them took their bows and arrows and went off to the cave. They saw the crocodile. They aimed at him and – became blind! “Take your arrows from your bows,” – the hunter cried. They did so and – could see again! It was clear that the crocodile was magic. “No man can kill me,” – thought the happy crocodile. The other animals in the cave were happy, too. The magic crocodile did not let the hunters kill them. Many men came to the cave and tried to kill the crocodile but nobody could do it with bows and arrows. In those days hunters knew nothing about the guns. The first hunter with a gun in his hands killed the crocodile. The crocodile’s magic worked only against bows and arrows. It did not work against guns.
cave — a large hole in the side of a hill, cliff, or mountain, or one that is underground bottom –the lowest part of something hunter – a person or an animal that hunts animals for food or for sport bow — a weapon for shooting arrows, made of a long, thin piece of wood bent into a curve by a tightly stretched string arrow – a weapon that is like a long, thin stick with a sharp point at one end lie – to be in or move into a horizontal position on a surface blind – unable to see gun – a weapon that bullets or shells (= explosive containers) are fired from
