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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
To use a bow you always need arrows.    
In this song "the wire" is a cable used to transport electricity.    
Here "the world" is a metaphor for "problems".    
Atlas fought against Zeus.    
To "slay" a dragon means to look for a dragon.    
A "dragon" here is a metaphor for bad things.    
If you are "about to do something" you are doing it.    
This song is the first song in the movie soundtrack.    
We can use the word "atlas" to refer to a collection of world maps.    
One of the lines of the song says "Help me get out of the fire".    
This song is the most important song in the soundtrack.    
"I'll carry your world" means that I will help you with your problems.    
Atlas and Zeus were friends.    
Atlas carried the world on his shoulders as a punishment    
Chris Martin, the lead singer of ColdPlay, is a fan of the books that inspires the movie series "Hunger Games"    
If you "bend", you break in two.    
Greeks usually represented Atlas carrying the planet earth on his shoulders.    
Atlas carried the world on his shoulders because he is the king of the world.    
If you "carry THE world" you will be very good at solving problems.    
Here, heaven = happiness.    
Atlas is a Greek god    
This song is sung by the band ColdPlay.    
In the Renaissance, Atlas is often represented carrying the skies on his shoulder.    
"Search" means "look for".    
To "slay" a dragon means to kill a dragon.    
This song is part of the soundtrack for the movie saga Twilight    
The man who sings wants to help a woman.    
Here, heaven = wonderful nature.    
Fire is a metaphor for conflict    
Here "up the road" means, "far away".    
He says "lord" because he is talking to the king of this country.    
The man who sings is talking to a woman and to God.    
"To carry" means "to move"    
In this song, "to explode" means "to start crying"    
Here "the world" is a metaphor for humanity.    
Total number of items: 35
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