Description: discuss the theme of the story; • relate to the feelings and behaviour of reptiles and other living creatures; • think critically about people’s superstitions and blind faith in untrained medicine men; • think critically about the myth that all snakes are dangerous; • realise the importance of timely and effective communication; • realise that silence is not always good; • realise that silence is not always good; • use some new words in meaningful sentences; • give the past tense form of some commonly used verbs; • discriminate between regular and irregular verbs; • form adverbs from adjectives and use them appropriately; • frame requests and enquiries, and • write short descriptions of people.