Students explore legendary creatures and mysterious stories from different cultures. They compare accounts, discuss evidence and explanations, and distinguish folklore from established facts.
Practice: Vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and discussion.
Vocabulary: elusive, folklore, countless, culprit.
Grammar: Choose between present perfect and past simple using life experiences, specific past times, and finished or unfinished time periods.
Word study: The prefixes trans- (across) and inter- (between), as in transcontinental and interactive.
Reading & speaking: Read about Bigfoot folklore; distinguish claims from evidence and discuss possible explanations.