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Vocabulary: Axe
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Parts 1 & 2
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Genre: Myths & LegendsSetting: MedievalNew Vocabulary: Alliteration, Axe, Be on your guard, Bless, Blow (hit), Chapel, Chastity, Chatter, Chivalry, Court (royalty), Feast, Fruits of …, Hag, Holy, Hop, Knight, Lady, Lord (Middle Ages), Mass (religion), Offspring, Potion, Rhyme, Shield, Siege, Sire (verb), Spoils, Step in the ring, Suit of armour, Trencher, WickedWord Count: 2910Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyKing Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table lIve peacefully at Camelot. But on New Year’s eve, a terrible knight rides into the castle, made entirely of green. He gives them a challenge: a man must come and attack him with his axe, and if the Green Knight survives, he will attack the man in a year and a day. Arthur’s nephew, Gawain, accepts the challenge, but things are not as they seem…
The Boy Who Knew No Fear (Beginner)
One day, a young man called Anders hears his brother say, ‘Oh, those scary stories make me shudder!’ ‘I wonder what it means to shudder?’ Anders thinks, and he goes out on a journey to find out.
Jack and the Beanstalk
In the morning, he noticed there was less light in his room than usual, and when he went to the window, he saw why. Overnight, a beanstalk had grown, and it was huge! It rose above him like a tower, thick as an oak, and reached far away into the sky where he couldn’t see. Jack and his parents were thrilled about the magic beanstalk.
Stone Soup
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Axe, Delicious, Get stuck, Ingredient, Nail (metal), Owner, Pot, Stone, Suffocate, TasteWord Count: 792Original Author: Fairy TalesOnce, a man was travelling across the country. He was very poor. One day he arrived in a town, and he had no more food. He asked the people for food, but nobody wanted to talk to him. So he went into the centre of town with a big cooking pot. He made a fire, put a stone in the pot, and filled it with water. An old woman walked past and saw the pot.…