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UNIT

English Form 5 Unit 2
Theme: People and Culture
2 Life’s Great Mysteries

Textbook pages: 17 – 25

Reading Skill Textbook Page: P.18 – 19

Module DSKP Practice

LS 3.1.5 Recognise independently the attitude or opinion of the write in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics

Extra
Read the text and answer the questions that follow. Practice 3

The world is filled with mysterious creatures or monsters, both real and imaginary. (1) G Some
monsters are more obscure than the others, here are their origin stories that we need to know.
Vampire legends were popular long before Edward Cullen who won the hearts of “Twilight” fans.
(2) H Blood-sucking corpses like the Cullens are really just the most modern manifestations of
the vampire myth, and they have other famous vampires, such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula,
arguably the most famous vampire of all time, is the fictional monster that put revenants on the
map in the late 19th century. Some historians think that a real person — Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad III,
a medieval Romanian prince who was also known as Dracula — inspired Stoker’s literary vampire. In
the northern Balkan Mountains, near Vlad III’s home region of Wallachia, locals do tell folktales about
“moroi,” or vampirelike children. According to legend, moroi are children who die before they are
baptized and who dine on the blood of cattle before leaving earth and finding their place in heaven
or hell.

Many other regions and cultures share similarly creepy stories about vampirelike creatures.
In China, there are jiangshi, evil spirits that attack people and drain their life energy. The jiangshi
are undead humans that have hunted, fed from, and infected the living for thousands of years.
(3) B They hop. Though the jiangshi is well-equipped for murder, it doesn’t often cause immediate
or noticeable physical harm to their victims. Unlike vampires, it does not subsist on blood. Instead,
the jiangshi feeds on energy called, qi, a person’s vital life force. Without it, a person immediately
dies. A supposed source of the jiangshi stories came from the folk practice when Qin Shi Huang,
the first emperor of China, was in the process of conquering the Chinese states in 230 BC. Warriors
deployed to maintain state borders and fight off Qin Shi Huang’s forces often travelled far from home.
(4) A So they hired a Taoist priest to conduct a ritual to reanimate the dead person and teach
him/her to “hop” their way home. The priests would transport the corpses only at night and would
ring bells to notify others in the vicinity of their presence because it was considered bad luck for a
living person to set eyes upon a jiangshi.

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