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Atlas
Video page https://multimedia-english.com/videos/music/atlas-4492
Focus Reading
Description Read all the information everywhere on this page and answer the following questions. You can also print the video page and have it with you for consultation. (The questions are not in order)
Instructions For every sentence mark if it is true (YES) or false (NO).
 
Question YES NO
"Search" means "look for".    
Chris Martin, the lead singer of ColdPlay, is a fan of the books that inspires the movie series "Hunger Games"    
One of the lines of the song says "Help me get out of the fire".    
Here "the world" is a metaphor for "problems".    
"I'll carry your world" means that I will help you with your problems.    
This song is the first song in the movie soundtrack.    
Here, heaven = happiness.    
To "slay" a dragon means to look for a dragon.    
Here, heaven = wonderful nature.    
We can use the word "atlas" to refer to a collection of world maps.    
Here "up the road" means, "far away".    
If you "bend", you break in two.    
In this song "the wire" is a cable used to transport electricity.    
In the Renaissance, Atlas is often represented carrying the skies on his shoulder.    
Atlas fought against Zeus.    
To use a bow you always need arrows.    
The man who sings is talking to a woman and to God.    
Here "the world" is a metaphor for humanity.    
If you are "about to do something" you are doing it.    
This song is the most important song in the soundtrack.    
A "dragon" here is a metaphor for bad things.    
This song is part of the soundtrack for the movie saga Twilight    
To "slay" a dragon means to kill a dragon.    
In this song, "to explode" means "to start crying"    
Fire is a metaphor for conflict    
Atlas is a Greek god    
If you "carry THE world" you will be very good at solving problems.    
Atlas and Zeus were friends.    
Atlas carried the world on his shoulders because he is the king of the world.    
He says "lord" because he is talking to the king of this country.    
The man who sings wants to help a woman.    
"To carry" means "to move"    
Atlas carried the world on his shoulders as a punishment    
This song is sung by the band ColdPlay.    
Greeks usually represented Atlas carrying the planet earth on his shoulders.    
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