SPEAKING AND WRITING

Work individually. Read the creation myth from the Info Box on the right

and then state what the similarities and differences between the two ideas

about the beginnings of life on Earth are (see also the text from page 11).

Differences

Theory put forward

by many scientists

The Great Cosmic

Egg (Chinese

Creation Myth)

Similarities

1) a ball of rock

(a single place)

2).

1) a great cosmic egg

(a single place)

2).

1) the liquid rock broke

from inside

2)

1) P'an Ku chiseled the

land and the sky apart

2).
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