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Listening and Language Skills
B. Look at the pictures and discuss the questions.
A. Match the words with the pictures. 1. What do you think an ancient Greek home
looked like?
terracotta vase altar stool courtyard
2. What do you think was inside an ancient

wicker furniture tiles statuette facade Greek home?
3. What activities do you think happened within
the home?
4. What was each householder responsible
for?

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C. Listen to a lecture about the ancient
Greek Oikos and make notes to answer the
questions in exercise B.
a. b.
D. Listen again. What are the following things?
Note down information about each one.

1. Oikos
2. atrium
3. impluvium
4. andron
5. gynaeceum
c. d. 6. kyrios

E. Discuss the questions in pairs or as a class.
1. In what ways do you think life in an ancient
Greek home would have been pleasant?
2. In what ways do you think life there would
have been unpleasant?
3. How does life in an ancient Greek home
compare to a family’s home life today?
e. f.

g. h.

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