Greece is located in southeastern Europe. Its capital is Athens and it uses the euro as currency. Ancient Greek mythology featured powerful gods like Zeus, king of the gods who controlled weather, and goddesses like Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, and Athena, goddess of wisdom. Myths told stories of figures like Medusa, a terrifying female monster, and Eros, the god of love depicted as a winged boy with bow and arrows.

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2. UNIT Where is Greece located ?
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 Capital of Greece: Athens  Climate: Mediterranean
 Official language: Greek  The currency : Euro (€)

3. UNIT ZEUS was the king of the
4 gods. He could control the
weather, he controlled
thunder, lightning and rain.
His most powerful weapon
was the thunderbolt.
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FROM of love, beauty and fertility. ATHENA was the goddess
of crafts and the domestic
GREEC She was also a protectress of
arts and also those of war.
E sailors.
Athena is the goddess of
wisdom; She was the
patron goddess of Athens.
Her father was Zeus. Her
symbol was the owl.
ARES was the god of war. However,
unlike Athena, he was not very
cunning in battle. He was not a
popular god.

4. UNIT ADONIS a youth of remarkable
4 beauty, the favorite of Aphrodite.
He became a hunter and was killed
by a wild boar and was reborn.
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S EROS, the god of love. He is the son
of Aphrodite and Ares. He is a
FROM winged boy, with his bow and
GREEC arrows, shooting to inspire
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Valentine's Day.
MEDUSA was a gorgon, a terrifying
female monster of the underworld.
Those who looked directly upon her
were turned to stone.
ARTEMIS was the virgin goddess of
the hunt. She helped women in
childbirth but also brought sudden
death with her arrows. Zeus is her
father .

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Beautiful
Handsome
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Ugly
Brave
Intelligent

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4 The adjectives  Adjectives are the
nouns’ best friends.
 In most cases adjectives
appear immediately
before the noun
MYTH  The adjectives,
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Follow me I am an adjective
• Degrees of comparison: positive, I will go with you!
comparative and superlative.
•We use the comparative for comparing
two things and the superlative for
comparing three or more things