In the caves under the famous Palace of Knossos in Crete, the Watchers sit. They watch the gold statue of Poseidon, god of the sea. Jim and Stella, an English brother and sister, are on holiday in Crete. With Nikos, their Cretan friend, they go into the caves. But the Watchers are waiting for them...
THE WATCHER
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Vocabulary:
- alive: living, not dead
- arm: your hand is at the end of your arm
- bowl: a large, round plate
- cave: a very large hole under the ground
- Cretan: a person from Crete
- Crete: an island in Greece
- dangerous: if something is dangerous, it can hurt or kill you
- dead: when you stop living, you are dead
- earthquake: a sudden, very strong movement of the ground
- fall: move quickly and freely from a high place to a low place
- fire: something burning, with smoke and flames
- god: there were many old Greek gods: Poseidon was the god of the sea, Apollo was the god of the sun, etc.
- Greece: a country in Europe
- hair: it grows on your head
- hall: a very big room or building (in this story, a very big cave)
- hear: you see with your eyes, you hear with your ears
- huge: very, very big
- Iraklion: a town on Crete
- Knossos: a very old place on Crete
- listen: you look at something with your eyes, you listen to something with your ears
- nobody: no people
- palace: a very big, beautiful house
- Poseidon: the name of the old Greek god of the sea
- silly: stupid, not clever
- statue: something (made of stone, wood, gold, etc.) that looks like a person
- stone: a very hard part or piece of the ground
- Watcher: somebody who watches
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