The Legend of Gavan and His Wife

The Legend of Gavan and His Wife

Once upon a time there was a Master in a town by the lake.

His name was Gavan. He lived in a castle by the beautiful

lake. He had an evil and mean wife. She despised poor people

and wouldn't give them old bread pieces.

God punished them for this behaviour. One day, a huge wave came from the sea.

The land shook and a hole opened under Gavan's home. Gavan and his wife

disappeared without any trace. The land swallowed people, trees and other houses.

Gavan had a baby boy. His nanny, Liburnijka ran

away trying to save him. After a few kilometres, the nanny

was so exhausted that she dropped the baby. On that

very place, a bottomless lake appeared. Nobody ever saw

the baby again.

Gavan's shepherd saw the whole event from the top of a hill. He

came down to the nanny and told her: „Our tyrant has gone. The

child will come back once the world becomes a better place.“ The two

of them founded the town at the mouth of the river. They named it

Skradin. They married and lived happily ever after.

1. Answer these questions:

a) What was te Master's name? ______________________

b) What was his wife like? __________________________

c) Where did they live? ____________________________

d) What did she feel for the poor people? ______________

e) What happened to them? _________________________

f) What happened to the baby? ______________________

2. Find the words in text that mean the following:

a) To inflict a penalty _________________

b) A large building _________________

c) Very big _________________

d) A woman who looks after a child _________________

e) A cruel ruler _________________

f) A part of river that flows into the sea ______________

g) Without bottom _________________

h) Entire _________________

3. Find the Past Tense of the following verbs in this wordsearch:

be, have, come, shake, run, see, tell, open, drop, find, found.

F O U N D E D

R A A E Z S I

F G J K R F D

F O U N D O R

O U R K L O O

P T O L D K P

E S C N H M P

N A R C A M E

E W A S D A D

D Y N V B M E

4. Match the halves of these sentences:

He lived in a castle trying to save the baby.

They disappeared at the mouth of the river.

Liburnijka ran away by a beautiful lake.

They founded a town without a trace.

She was exhausted and lived happily ever after.

They married and dropped the baby.

5. Find the regular and irregular verbs from the text:

Regular verbs Irregular verbs

Infinitive Past Tense Infinitive Past Tense

6. Use some of the verbs in these sentences:

She _______________ the glass and it broke.

Steve Jobs _______________Apple in 1976.

My sister ______________ a chewing gum but nothing

_____________ to her.

The ship ____________________ on the horizon.

They __________________ their baby after the grandpa.

Made by: Matija, Mia, Karmela and Margareta

The Legend of Gavan and His Wife

Once upon a time there was a Master in a town by

the lake. His name was Gavan. He lived in a castle

by the beautiful lake. He had an evil and mean wife.

She despised poor people and wouldn't give them old

bread pieces.

God punished them for this behaviour. One day, a huge wave came

from the sea. The land shook and a hole opened under Gavan's home.

Gavan and his wife disappeared without any trace. The land

swallowed people, trees and other houses.

Gavan had a baby boy. His nanny, Liburnijka

ran away trying to save him. After a few

kilometres, the nanny was so exhausted that

she dropped the baby. On that very place, a

bottomless lake appeared. Nobody ever saw

the baby again.

Gavan's shepherd saw the whole event from the top of

a hill. He came down to the nanny and told her: „Our

tyrant has gone. The child will come back once the

world becomes a better place.“ The two of them

founded the town at the mouth of the river. They

named it Skradin. They married and lived happily ever

after.