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PENGUIN ACTIVE READING
Theseus and the Minotaur
Ken Beatty
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Theseus and the Minotaur
Ken Beatty
ELEFANTA
ENGLISHTIPS.ORG
Level 1
Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
What’s the book about?
Look at the picture on the front of this book. You can see a man and a
Minotaur. Talk about the picture. Then write these words in the sentences.
bad
1 They are in a sm all
dark
good
knife
room
name
^ 9 9 ^ ...........
2 It i s ......................... in the room.
3 The young m a n 's......................... is Theseus.
4
He is a ......................... man.
5 The Minotaur is big a n d ..........................
6 The young man has a ......................... in his hand.
What happens first?
W hat do you think? Number the pictures, 1-4.
A Kings Sword
'You have two fathers, Theseus,
*
his mother said. ‘You are the son o f Poseidon,
the
god
o f the sea, and the son o f
King
Aegeus. ’
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T
heseus lived with his mother in Troezen, in Greece. He was a
clever, happy young man, but he did not know his father.
One day, his mother said to him, ‘Come with me into the garden,
Theseus. Do you see that big
rock?
Can you move it, my son?’
Theseus was strong. He moved the rock and looked under it. There
was a
sword
- a king s sword!
god /god/ (n) Apollo was not a man. He was a Greek
god.
king /kir)/ (n) The people in this country love their
king.
rock /rDk/ (n) That
rock
is going to fall on his head.
sword /so:d/ (n) He was dead on the floor, with a
sw ord
in his back.
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‘This is the sword of King Aegeus/ his mother said. ‘ nd now it is
A
yours.’
Theseus looked at her, and then at the sword. ‘Mine?’ he said. ‘W hy
is it mine?’
‘You have two fathers, Theseus,’ his mother said. ‘You are the son of
Poseidon, the god of the sea, and the son of King Aegeus. King Aegeus
lives in Athens. Go to him now. It is time.’
That night, Theseus said goodbye to his mother.
‘I am going to walk to my father’s hom e,’ he said to her.
‘But it is a long and difficult walk,’ his mother said.
‘I
am strong,’ Theseus said. ‘You know that, Mother. Don’t
cry
for me.’
cry /krai/ (v, past cried /kraid/) Don't cry! Be happy.
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