A.
My Initial Understanding
Look at the picture and discuss the following questions with a partner.
Remember to respect each other’s answer.
1. What can you see in the picture?
2. Can you guess what story you will
read?
3. What kind of story will it be? Will
it be a happy, sad, adventurous, or
mystery story?
4. From the picture, can you guess
whether it is the story setting or the
character? Please describe.
Picture 3.1 The Wardrobe 1
B. Reading
Activity 1
In order to help you understand the story you will read, let’s
learn some vocabularies that you will find in the story. Read the
sentences and, based on the context, guess the meaning of the
bold printed words. Then, match the word with its meaning.
Vocabulary Items of The Lion, the witch and the Wardrobe
1. Lucy encountered the Faun Tumnus in a strange, snowy wood.
2. Tumnus was a servant of a terrible White Witch, who had bewitched
Narnia so that it was always winter and never Christmas.
3. The witch fed Edmund enchanted Turkish Delight and persuaded
him to bring back his siblings.
4. Tumnus had been jailed on treason accusations.
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5. When the Pevensies passed a forest lamppost while hunting a
magical white deer, they returned to their former world, where time
had scarcely passed and they were once again kids.
Put a magic spell on someone or something in
Faun
order to control him/her/it.
Bewitched Broke suddenly into very small pieces.
Turkish The crime of assisting your country’s enemies or
Delight seeking to overthrow the government illegally.
A fictional creature that looks like a small man
Treason
with a goat’s back legs, a tail, ears, and horns.
A soft sweet that is usually cut into squares and
Shattered
dusted with powdered sugar.
Activity 2
Now, read a fantasy story entitled ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe.’ While reading, pay attention to the characters and
the events told in the story.
Structures Text Language
Features
Orientation: The Lion, the Witch, Action Verbs
and the Wardrobe • They
explored the
During the World house on
War II, four their first
siblings, Peter, day, and
Susan, Edmund Lucy, the
and Lucy were youngest,
discovered
sent to live in
an enormous
the country with wardrobe.
Picture 3.2 The Wardrobe 2 Professor Kirke.
They explored the house on their
first day, and Lucy, the youngest,
discovered an enormous wardrobe.
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