Another new feature of this text is the Communicative Activities provided at the end of each section to give you and your classmates more speaking and writing practice. | Lesson 7 Sentence Addition Questions 143 skills to make weapons fur clothing and shelters against the bitter cold. It seems safe to assume that they also brought myths and folktales from the Old World. But which myths and which folktales Among myths the most impressive candidate for Old World origin is the story of the Earth Diver. This is the story of a group of water creatures who take turns diving into the depths of the sea trying to find a piece of solid land. The duck the turtle the muskrat the seal the crawfish or some other animal depending on who is telling the story finally succeeds but it has to dive so deep that by the time it returns to the surface it is half-drowned or dead. However in its claws or in its mouth the other animals find a bit of mud. Not every Native American tribe has a creation myth but of those that do the Earth Diver is one of the most common. It is found in all regions of the New World except in the Southwestern United States and the Arctic regions. In the Old World the story is told in many locations in northern Asia among some aboriginal Australian groups and in the South Pacific Islands. Circle the squares that indicate the best places to add the sentences. 15. Look at the four squares that indicate where the following sentence could be added to paragraph 1. It was an immediate success and spread rapidly but the original name quickly disappeared. 16. Look at the four squares that indicate where the following sentence could be added to paragraph 2. They were played at Chestnut Hill Massachusetts between British and American players. Lawn tennis is a comparatively modern modification of the ancient game of court tennis. Major Walter C. Wingfield thought that something like court tennis might be played outdoors on the grass and in 1873 he introduced his new game under the name Sphairistike at a lawn party in Wales. Players and spectators soon began to call the new game lawn tennis. In 1874 a woman named Mary Outerbridge returned to .
