Theseus and the Minotaur
Long long ago in Ancient Greece on the island of
__________ there lived a minotaur – half man, half
__________.
The minotaur lived in a ___________ underneath the
palace of King ___________.
Every nine years King Aegeus of __________ had to
send _____ girls and _____ boys to be fed to the
minotaur.
One year, King Aegeus’s son, ____________, offered
to go to Crete and kill the minotaur to save his people.
He told his father that if he killed the minotaur he would
sail back home to Athens with __________ sails but if
he was killed by the minotaur his ship would return with
_________ sails.
When Theseus arrived in Crete he met Princess
____________. She told him how to find his way
through the maze by using a ball of _________.
Theseus used the string and found his way to the
minotaur. After a very fierce battle, __________ won.
However, Theseus was so excited to kill the minotaur
that he forgot to change to sails to __________ ones.
When King Aegeus saw his son’s ship returning home
with __________ sails he thought he was dead and
threw himself a cliff into the sea.
Nowadays, this sea is still known as the Aegean Sea.
Now use these words to fill in the blank spaces in the story
black
white
Theseus
Athens
Crete
Athens
bull
labyrinth
Minos
Ariadne