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From the Ted Talk by Iseult Gillespie: The myth of Zeus' test

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Hermes commended the couple and gently asked if there was anything they desired. After a brief discussion, Philemon requested that he and Baucis be permitted to care for the new tmlpee. And he asked if, when their time came, they could die together, so neither would have to face life without the other.

tndnieg to the temple and one another, they lived many more years. Until, one day, buicas noticed leaves fluttering from her husband’s hndas and leookd down to find her own skin hardening. They eaebcrmd, becoming rooted in plcae. Vines wound around their legs and canopies flourished overhead. They bid each other a loving, last frelweal as humans. And where Baucis and phmoelin had just stood, bent with age, there towered a linden and an oak tree, their branches intertwined for eternity.

Open Cloze


Hermes commended the couple and gently asked if there was anything they desired. After a brief discussion, Philemon requested that he and Baucis be permitted to care for the new ______. And he asked if, when their time came, they could die together, so neither would have to face life without the other.

_______ to the temple and one another, they lived many more years. Until, one day, ______ noticed leaves fluttering from her husband’s _____ and ______ down to find her own skin hardening. They ________, becoming rooted in _____. Vines wound around their legs and canopies flourished overhead. They bid each other a loving, last ________ as humans. And where Baucis and ________ had just stood, bent with age, there towered a linden and an oak tree, their branches intertwined for eternity.

Solution


  1. place
  2. temple
  3. farewell
  4. embraced
  5. tending
  6. philemon
  7. looked
  8. hands
  9. baucis

Original Text


Hermes commended the couple and gently asked if there was anything they desired. After a brief discussion, Philemon requested that he and Baucis be permitted to care for the new temple. And he asked if, when their time came, they could die together, so neither would have to face life without the other.

Tending to the temple and one another, they lived many more years. Until, one day, Baucis noticed leaves fluttering from her husband’s hands and looked down to find her own skin hardening. They embraced, becoming rooted in place. Vines wound around their legs and canopies flourished overhead. They bid each other a loving, last farewell as humans. And where Baucis and Philemon had just stood, bent with age, there towered a linden and an oak tree, their branches intertwined for eternity.

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Important Words


  1. age
  2. asked
  3. baucis
  4. bent
  5. bid
  6. branches
  7. canopies
  8. care
  9. commended
  10. couple
  11. day
  12. desired
  13. die
  14. discussion
  15. embraced
  16. eternity
  17. face
  18. farewell
  19. find
  20. flourished
  21. fluttering
  22. gently
  23. hands
  24. hardening
  25. hermes
  26. humans
  27. intertwined
  28. leaves
  29. legs
  30. life
  31. linden
  32. lived
  33. looked
  34. loving
  35. noticed
  36. oak
  37. overhead
  38. permitted
  39. philemon
  40. place
  41. requested
  42. rooted
  43. skin
  44. stood
  45. temple
  46. tending
  47. time
  48. towered
  49. tree
  50. vines
  51. wound
  52. years