3) What are Atlanta's rules?

2. Scanning

Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text.

Read the story to find out the relationship among the characters in it.

Atlanta: A greek process.

King: Atlanta' s father

Hippomenes: he wants to marry atlanta.

Greek goddess of love:Hippomenes asked her for help.

Reading and answering

Purpose: To make Ss further understand the text.

　Read the text in silence, and answer the following questions.

　(1) What was Atlanta's problem?

　(2) What were Atlanta's rules?

　(3) Why did Hippomenes think that the men who ran the race were so foolish?

　(4) What made Hippomenes change his mind?

　(5) Whom did Hippomenes turn to for help?

Suggested Answers:

(1) Atlanta could run faster than any men in Greece. But she was not allowed to run in the Olympic Games.

(2) She promised to be married to a man who could run faster