English B2 The Legend of Tis sa ack
Complete the text with the words given: park lake rock streams waterfalls valley Yosemite National Park in California is an area of outstanding beauty with enormous rocks, green valleys, 1) , lakes and crystalclear 2) . It attracts over 4 million visitors every year. A main attraction of the 3) is the Half Dome, which gets its name from the fact that it resembles a dome cut in half. A Native American legend tells the tale of how this massive 4) formation got there. An old woman called Tissaack arrived with her husband in the 5) on a hot day. The woman was so thirsty that she drank all the water from the 6) , leaving none for her husband. He started shouting and she started crying, so the Great Spirit turned Tissaack into Half Dome and her husband into another big rock.
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