Practice Time Part 3.

1. This was a horse-man combination unable to hold its drink – as witness the centaur’s
attempts to rape the wedding guests when they attended the Lapith wedding in northern
Greece, depicted on the methopes of the Parthenon.
2. Centaurs represented the violence and sexuality of the world of the beasts and it is
significant that some artistic representations show them with two sets of genitalia: a
human set at the front and a horse set at the back.
3. Then there were satyrs and silens, goat-men with exaggerated sexuality; sirens and
harpies, both bird-women, the sirens being associated with perfume, seductive song, and
attractive temptation, the harpies with a foul smell, violent noise, and repulsion; also one-
off monsters such as the manticore, a lion-scorpion combination with a human head, the
bull-man Minotaur, and the riddling lion-woman Sphinx.
4. In medieval art, particularly in illustrated bestiaries, the possible combinations of animals
multiplied, as composite beings came to be seen as part of creation, providing evidence of
the limitless power of God.
5. Most versions of her myth say that she is one of many monstrous beings deriving
ultimately from the union of Ge (Earth) and Pontos (sea): from the union of Earth and
Heaven the Titans were born.
6. Among her kin are the harpies, the Sphinx, the snake-haired Gorgons (of whom Medusa
is the best known), and the Nemean lion that featured in the labours of Hercules.
7. However, Homer refers to her as having been ‘kept’ by king Amisodarus, which could
suggest an alternative tradition in which she was deliberately created as a boundary-
guardian or weapon.
8. Her father was Typhon, half man and half serpent, whose rapid movement makes him the
origin of hurricanes and typhoons; he has a hundred hissing snake heads coming from his
loins.
9. Her mother, Echidna, also combined human and serpent but, in contrast to her fast-
moving, fire-belching husband, she stayed in a cave beneath the earth, only coming out
rarely to eat young men.
10. The Chimera was eventually killed by the hero Bellerophon, aided by another hybrid
descended from Earth and Sea – the winged horse, Pegasus.
11. Only by rising into the air above the Chimera was it possible to evade destruction by her
fire-breathing head.

Practice Time Part 3.2

1. Simple Future Tense

1) They will play badminton in the school field tomorrow.
2) My family will go to South Korea next week for a holiday.
3) I will behave, I promise.
2. Future Continuous Tense
1) I will be continuing my study to Japan 4 years from now.
2) We will be shopping in that market this Saturday.
3) Rachel will not be attending tomorrow’s class because she has another plan with
her family.
3. Future Perfect Tense
1) I will have finished my essay if they don’t come to my house.
2) The plant will have grown by then.
3) Will your mom have cooked our favorite foods?