than her. If he could not run as fast as her, he would be killed.

(3) Hipppomenes could not understand why so many young men wanted to risk their lives.

(4) Atlanta's beauty made him understand his amazement and change his mind.

(5) He turned to the Goddess of love for help.

3. Underline new words and useful expressions in the passage.

Useful expressions in The Story Of Atlanta:

be allowed to, hear of..., as fast as, change one's mind, ask... for ...from..., pick up, confident about..., compete with...

4. Talking and writing

Group work

Ask Ss to talk about the possible ending in groups of four. After discussing, let every student write down the result they have got. And then ask some Ss to read out their results.

For your reference (Various possible endings are allowed. Here are three kinds of different results.):

　(1). Hippomenes was killed because of losing his race.

　(2). Hippomenes ran faster than Atlanta and married her.

(3). Atlanta and Hippomenes fell in love with each other at