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Discovering Work in pairs. Find out the statement which describes you best and illustrate it with examples. Read through the text and underline all the words or expressions meaning “death”. Expressions in the text coffin dweller (Para.1) trampled ash in the rose garden of some local cemetery (Para.1) the hooded, scythe-carrying, bringer-of-the-last-breath (Para.1) the untimely exit of… (Para.1) cript-kicker (Para.3) the reaper (Para.12) Euphemisms for death/dead/to die Belly up Gone (into the past) Crossed the river Styx Pass away Kick the bucket Bite the dust personification of death in Greek myth and poetry a son of Night and Darkness and twin brother of Sleep a creature of bone chilling darkness With wings and a sword used to cut down a strand of hair of the dying person The (Grim) Reaper The concept of death has existed in many societies since the beginning of history. In English, Death is often given the name (Grim) Reaper and, from the 15th century onwards, came to be shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe and clothed in a black cloak with a hood. Text organisation Identify the textual pattern. Text organisation Conveying messages through repetition Conveying messages through repetition Conveying messages through repetition Conveying messages through repetition Conveying messages through repetition Conveying messages through repetition Conveying messages through repetition Idiomatic colloquial expressions Answer the questions about idiomatic colloquial expressions. Idiomatic colloquial expressions It’s true, I have checked it out.If you check something out, do you _____?a) find out b) not think about it 2. I have watched death from the sidelines.If you see something from the sidelines, do you _____?(a) take part in the action(b) stay away from it 3. The prologue and epilogue are already typed in. All thats left is the middle bit and thats down to us. We get to choose the meat of the story