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7.6 Animal myths

Vocabulary Reading

Animals in a farmyard 3 a) How did the chicken get her wings? Read
1 a) 4.10 Listen and repeat. What are these to find out.
animals in Bulgarian?

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How the chicken
got her wings

Long ago, Chicken didn’t have wings. She
chicken cat
got along fine without them but then, just
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before winter, she saw that all the animals had to look
for food – except Swallow.
“Hey, Swallow!” Chicken called. “Why aren’t you
looking for food? Winter is coming!”
Swallow laughed. “See these?” she said, flapping her
wings. “In winter, I fly South. There’s lots of food there.”
duck dog
I want to fly South, too, thought Chicken. So she
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wished for a pair of wings.
Her wish came true but, when the swallows flew away,
Chicken didn’t go with them. She
tried and tried, but she didn’t get
far because she didn’t know how
sheep cow to use her new wings.
7 8 To this day, Chicken is called a
bird, but she cannot fly more than
a few metres.

Check these words
get along, look for, swallow, flap, wish, come true, try, get far
mouse goat

b) Which animal(s) has/have got small/big b) Read the myth again and for questions
ears? a big/small head? a long/short tail? wings? 1-3 choose the correct answer (A-C). Write in
webbed feet? a beak? sharp horns? a big/small your notebook.
body? long/short legs?
1 Who didn’t have to look for food before
A mouse has got a long tail.
winter?
c) Choose an animal. Your partner asks A Chicken B Swallow
questions to find which animal it is. C all the animals
A: Does the animal have sharp horns? 2 What did Chicken wish for?
B: Yes, it does. etc A food for the winter
B to live in the South
Listening
C wings
2 a) 4.11 Listen to Anton talking to Mark. 3 Why didn’t Chicken go with the swallows?
Which of the animals in Ex. 1 has Anton got in A She didn’t know how to fly.
his farmyard?
B She didn’t have wings.
b) Which animals have you got in your farmyard? C She didn’t know the way.
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