Plant+folklore

TASK 1 As technology advances and people move to live and work in different places, the ways of using plants locally can change and older, often valuable methods can be forgotten. Interview the older members of your community to find out how people used plants in the past and how this compares with today. TASK 2 Find some stories, myths and folklore about plants in your country. Older people in your community might be able to help with your research. For example some may have been designed to tell you about plants that are good for medicine, or to give warnings about poisonous plants.Share these stories with the friends in your group. TASK 3 Now answer the following questions in the discussion section. Are there any common themes to the plant stories, myths and folklore? Why do you think these themes originated? Does the scientific meaning have the same emphasis and impact in different parts of the world? TASK4 Why don't you try and write your own plant story. You can follow this outline: Describe the scene and the characters What happens first in the story? What happens as a result of this? What new character arrives and what do they do? How does the story end? What is the message?