The Story of Atlanta

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The Story of Atlanta
Unit 2 The Olympic Games
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Lead-in Do you know anything about Greece?
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All Greek to me?
Do you know any stories in ancient Greece ?
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Zeus (??)
the King of the Gods
All Greek to me?
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Hera (??)
The Goddess of Women and Marriage
All Greek to me?
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Aphrodite (?????)
The Goddess of Love In Rome(??), shes
called Venus (???)
All Greek to me?
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Golden apples can give people magical power.
No one can say no to it.
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A Greek story about Atlanta
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How did the golden allples work?
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Pre-reading Guessing
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King
Who is the man wearing a crown(??)? What
about the girl?
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Task? Scanning (2min)

• Read the first paragraph and find out
• Who was Atlanta?
• What was she good at?
• Who did she want to marry?

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• Scan the passage and find the answers
• Who was Atlanta?
• 2. What was she good at?

She was a Greek princess. She was good
at running.
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• Who did Atlanta want to marry?

She wanted to marry a man who could run faster
than her.
Was there a man that could run faster than
Atlanta?
Scan Paragraph 1.
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4. What did Atlantas father do?

• He tried to persuade Atlanta and finally Atlanta
  made a bargain with him.
• A. made a joke
• B. made a mistake
• C. made an agreement
• D. something unknown

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Scan Paragraph 1.
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Task ? Skimming Para 23 (3min)

• Would Atlanta stay single(???) her whole life?

Who What How
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The main idea of this text

• Its about _______who races to marry the
  man who can _________than her. In order
  to________________, ___________asked for
  ______from the Goddess of Love.

Atlanta
run faster
win the race
help
Hippomenes
Goddess
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The Story of Atlanta
Atlanta
King
Goddess
Hippomenes
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Task ? Pair Work Retell the story

• 1.Who was Atlanta?
• Greek princess beautiful run fast
• 2.What had happened to Atlanta?
• not allowed win glory angry not
  marry
• 3.What did she say when her father asked her
  marriage?
• run faster kill
• 4.What did the men do when they heard Atlantas
• rules?
• went home stayed there
• 5.What did Hippomenes think about her rules and
  what did he do after he saw Atlanta?
• amaze foolish change his mind
• 6.What did the Goddess do to help Hippomenes?
• golden apples throw

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Who do you think will win the race?
Post Reading
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Discussion

• (1) What do you think would happen to
  Hippomenes?
• (2) Will Hippomenes be killed or marry
  Atlanta? Why?

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Atlanta didnt love Hippomenes
Hippomenes cheated in the running
Reasons to be killed
Nobody can run faster than Atlanta

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The goddess of love helped Hippomenes
Atlantas slowed down when picked up the apples
Reasons to marry Atlanta
I love happy ending

Atlanta kept her promise
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The Ending of the Story

Get married of get killed?
Exercise 3 5 (p15)
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Listening (p15)Number these sentences.

• ( ) One man wanted to win and marry Atlanta very
  much.
• ( ) Atlanta married him and they lived happily.
• ( ) When the race began Atlanta ran past him.
• ( ) He asked the Goddess of love for help.
• (1) Atlanta was a very beautiful princess.
• ( ) Many men tried to compete with her, but
  failed and so were killed.
• ( ) She stopped to pick them up.
• ( ) She gave him three golden apples.
• ( ) She ran too slowly and he won.
• ( ) He threw the golden apples one after
  another.
• ( ) She could run faster than any other man in
  Greece.

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Listen again and fill in the blanks.
Hippomenes was waiting when Atlanta came out. She
thought, I _________ this man _____! so she
said to her father, Tell him __________. The
race ____________ today. But Hippomenes said,
There are __________ She _________________ who
___________ than her! ___________ -- lets run!
dont want
to die
to go away
will not be run
her rules
will marry the man
runs faster
Come on
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• Homework
• Exercise 1 on P 14