Mighty Dragons

Mighty Dragons

(Hit the road 1ère – unit 16)

Axe 5: fictions and realities

• How is the legend of the dragon depicted in English literature?

Get ready!

Brainstorming about dragons:

• Physical characteristics / description: dragons are dangerous, unfriendly, terrifying beast / creatures / monsters. They can fly and breathe fire. They have big yellow eyes. They are enormous / huge / gigantic and mighty / strong / powerful. They have horns, spikes, and scales.
• Places: they live or can be seen in the mountains, castles, caves, forest…
• People they interact with: other imaginary creatures (such as fairies, witches, wizards, elves, dwarfs, hobbits…), soldiers / fighters / dragons slayers (slay = kill), knights, princesses, villagers…
• Personality: often aggressive, threatening, scary / terrifying / frightening, wild. They can be either intelligent, pet-like, friendly, affectionate, kind, loyal, faithful, OR evil (usually, they are the villains in stories).
• Actions / missions: they can fly, they cause trouble, they can burn and destroy / decimate / annihilate / erase villages (they can set / put fire on villages). They also protect treasures (they are treasure keepers) or princesses.

The legend of St George (oral doc)

Once upon a time, a man named George had a lot adventure = cross country with a horse

Came to small and met a man who live in a cave near the village

A terrible a dragon had come to the lake and attack the village every day.

Dragon took the food and still attack.

They give all the animals from their farm to the dragon. He continues to attack.

They give all the money, but he wasn’t satisfied.

An army wasn’t stronger to fight against him because they run away when they saw him.

The princess is the only way to calm the dragon.

The dragon was ready to eat her.

George killed very bravely the dragon and they come back and everyone applause them because they won’t have any problem now.  

1. Fill in these sentences with these words.

medieval   mighty   breathe   knight   slayer   treasures   battle   devilish   greed

1. Dragon’s lovers hope they could be able to breathe fire one day, they are so crazy!
2. Beowulf is a medieval poem in which a knight fights a mighty / devilish dragon.
3. Why are dragons so fond of treasures? Their greed (=avare) is limitless.
4. Hagrid believes that dragons are devilish / mighty and fascinating!
5. Daenerys Targaryen won a battle thanks to her dragons.
6. Saint George is known as the dragon slayer he was brave enough to kill it!

• Devilish = evil
• Greed = la cupidité, l’avarice, la gloutonnerie
• To be greedy = être cupide, avare, glouton (Mr. Greedy)
• To slay = to kill
• A slayer = a killer

        2. Fill in these sentences with these expressions:[pic 1]

breathe fire – make a fire – set fire on – play with fire – open fire – fire questions at

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