LANGUAGE

F O C U S Connectors

1. Read these sentences. Pay special attention to the word in bold.

a. In 490 BC, Persia was a huge empire, and it wanted to capture
Athens.
b. He ran for two days over the mountains, but the Spartans did not
want to fight, so he returned to Marathon.
2. What do the words in bold introduce? Choose an alternative for each.
i. An additional idea. ii. A condition iii. A conclusion.
3. Complete the rule.
We use _____ when we want to introduce an _______________ ; we
use ______ when we want to introduce _____________ ; and we use
__________ when we want to introduce _____________ .

Activities

Complete these sentences with a connector from the

Language Focus.
a. The first marathon runner was Greek _____ he was a
messenger.
b. The Persian army attacked, _____ the Greek soldiers were
waiting
for them.
c. Pheidippides ran a long distance, _____ he arrived very
tired.
10. In pairs, complete the dialog about the first marathon.
Then practice and role-play it in front of your classmates .

Put the events in order so that you can write your own version of
the
story in your notebook. Use and, but, and so to link the ideas.

a. In the city of Marathon, there was a man called Pheidippides.

b. In 490 BC, there was a war between the Persians and the Greeks.

c. When he arrived there, he told the news and then died.

d. The Spartans did not want to help the Greeks.
e. The Greeks sent him to Sparta.
f. The Persians lost the battle and tried to capture Athens.
g. Pheidippides ran to Athens to tell them the Persians were coming.