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Unit 9
It’s a mystery! Reading; Speaking; Pronunciation

Culture notes IT’S A MYSTERY! UNIT 9
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The Loch Ness Monster is a sea THE IS OUT
animal that some people claim lives TRUTH
THERE
in Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. The THERE
famous photograph of it from 1934
TRUTH
(on page 84 of the Student’s Book)
There are many unexplained mysteries in the world.
There are many unexplained mysteries in the world.
was revealed to be a fake in 1994. There are many unexplained mysteries in the world.
How was the Great Pyramid at Giza built? Are there
How was the Great Pyramid at Giza built? Are there
There have been several searches of How was the Great Pyramid at Giza built? Are there
yetis in the Himalayas? Is there a monster in the
the lake, most recently in 2018, which yetis in the Himalayas? Is there a monster in the
have found nothing. depths of Loch Ness? Here are our favourites.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric
monument in Wiltshire, England. It is A The octopuses that walked on land
made up of a ring of standing stones, You might see an octopus hop from one rock pool to another, but in late
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each about four metres high and October 2017, over 20 octopuses were seen coming out of the sea and moving
along a beach in Wales. ‘No one has ever seen anything like this before,’ said one
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two metres wide. The monument is local. ‘It’s very odd behaviour.’ So, why did it happen? Different experts have
different opinions. One is that the octopuses were ill. Another is that two big
believed to have been constructed different opinions. One is that the octopuses were ill. Another is that two big
storms a few days earlier had confused the octopuses and affected their senses.
between 3000 and 2000 BCE. It is A third expert said: ‘There’s been an increase in the octopus population, so it
regarded as a British cultural icon, might be the octopuses needed to travel further to find food.’
has been legally protected as an B The giant stone balls
There are hundreds of large stone balls in the Costa Rican jungle. Evidence shows that they
Ancient Monument since 1882 and must be at least 600 years old and some could date back to 200 BCE. The spheres are up
the site and the surrounding area to 2.4 metres in diameter and are almost perfectly round. They are also very heavy, with
some of them weighing 16 tons. The stone itself comes from miles away, so it took a huge
became a UNESCO World Heritage effort to move them. It’s thought they probably had a religious purpose and some people
Site in 1986. Stonehenge was suggest a connection with the sun. Others have even suggested that the balls were created
by an alien life form. But no one really knows and the mystery continues.
produced by a culture that left no C The Solway spaceman
written records and so many aspects In 1964, Jim Templeton from Carlisle took a photo of his daughter Elizabeth and was surprised
of it remain unclear. What is known to see in the photo a strange figure behind her that looked like an extraterrestrial spaceman.
Jim took the photo with the mysterious figure to the police, and soon afterwards it appeared
is that some of the stones originally in the newspapers. Then one day, Jim was visited by two men who said they were government
came from a town in Wales, over officials. They asked him to take them to the scene of the photograph. Who were they? Why
were they interested? Some people say the figure in the photo must be Templeton’s wife – the
230km away. camera flash made her dress look bright white. Most people agree that the image is real but
can’t be a spaceman. What do you think?
The Yeti (or Abominable Snowman) D The Voynich manuscript
is an apelike creature which is said In 1639, Georgius Barschius from Prague told a friend that he had a
to live in the Himalayas. In 1921, mysterious book which might be about science or medicine. It was full
of puzzling pictures and diagrams, and it was written in an unknown
a British Royal Geographical Society language. Today, the Voynich manuscript is over 600 years old and still no
expedition found footprints in the one can read it. It has been suggested that the mysterious writing could
be based on an Arabic or Roma or Aztec language. Others say it must be
snow and there have been frequent a secret code, and many expert codebreakers have tried to crack it. Every
reports of sightings ever since. It is year people think they have solved the mystery, but no one ever has.
generally believed that the ‘Yetis’ are
actually bears. SPEAKING
The term UFOs (Unidentified Flying 7 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions. PRONUNCIATION
Objects) refers to any flying object 1 Which of these mysteries do you think is the most interesting? Why? Moving word stress Go to page 121.
2 What other mysteries do you know of?
that cannot be explained, but is
usually used to refer to spaceships 85
with aliens on board. The number
of sightings has increased greatly
since the advent of science fiction Homework
films in the 1950s. Some believe that Ask students to research a mystery from around the world. They can upload
there are government conspiracies a picture with a description of the mystery in English. If students do not have
to suppress information of alien access to the internet, they can create their own ideas. As a follow-up, students
visitations. However, there remains can bring the picture to the next lesson and present their mystery to the class.
no conclusive evidence to prove their
existence.
Activity idea Extension
7 Tell students they should look Ask students to read paragraphs B, C
back at the article to find any and D again and try to work out if the
evidence to support their author believes any of the mysteries more
answers. At the end of the are true. Monitor and guide weaker
exercise, listen to some of the students towards the parts of the Workbook
students’ ideas and encourage article which hint at the author’s Pronunciation pp120–121
open class discussion. opinion. Get students to discuss their
findings in pairs. Nominate one or Worksheets
two students to share their ideas in Project Mysterious events
Pronunciation open class and invite reactions from Communication What happened?
Moving word stress the rest of the class. Get ing Are there any unexplained
Student’s Book p121 mysteries from your country?
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