Scribd
Upload
346 views2 pages

A Story About Medusa and Athena Reading Comprehension Exercises - 114257

Uploaded by

Mervat Aftoh

Medusa was a beautiful girl who lived in Athens and boasted that she was more beautiful than Athena. Athena punished Medusa for her pride by transforming her into a hideous monster with snakes for hair, so that anyone who looked at her would turn to stone. Athena exiled Medusa to live with monsters at the ends of the earth.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt

A Story About Medusa and Athena Reading Comprehension Exercises - 114257

Uploaded by

Mervat Aftoh
346 views2 pages
Medusa was a beautiful girl who lived in Athens and boasted that she was more beautiful than Athena. Athena punished Medusa for her pride by transforming her into a hideous monster with snakes for hair, so that anyone who looked at her would turn to stone. Athena exiled Medusa to live with monsters at the ends of the earth.

Original Title

a-story-about-medusa-and-athena-reading-comprehension-exercises_114257

Copyright

© © All Rights Reserved

Available Formats

PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Medusa was a beautiful girl who lived in Athens and boasted that she was more beautiful than Athena. Athena punished Medusa for her pride by transforming her into a hideous monster with snakes for hair, so that anyone who looked at her would turn to stone. Athena exiled Medusa to live with monsters at the ends of the earth.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
346 views2 pages

A Story About Medusa and Athena Reading Comprehension Exercises - 114257

Uploaded by

Mervat Aftoh
Medusa was a beautiful girl who lived in Athens and boasted that she was more beautiful than Athena. Athena punished Medusa for her pride by transforming her into a hideous monster with snakes for hair, so that anyone who looked at her would turn to stone. Athena exiled Medusa to live with monsters at the ends of the earth.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1/ 2

A Story about Medusa and Athena

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful girl named Medusa. Medusa lived in the city of Athens, in
Greece -- and although there were many pretty girls in the city, Medusa was considered the most lovely.

Medusa was very proud of her beauty and thought or spoke only of herself. Each day she boasted of
how pretty she was. Medusa even boasted that she was prettier than Athena, goddess of wisdom, who watched
over Athens.

Athena decided to punish Medusa for her


pride. “Foolish girl,” Athena said angrily, “You
think you are prettier than I am! I doubt it to be
true, but even if it were -- there is more to life
than beauty alone. While others work and play
and learn, you only boast and admire yourself.”

And with those words Medusa’s face


changed to that of a hideous monster. Her hair
twisted and thickened into horrible snakes that

hissed and fought each other atop her head.

“Medusa, your face is now so terrible that the mere sight of it will
turn a man to stone,” said the goddess, “Even you, Medusa, will turn into a
rock if you see your face.”

And with that, Athena sent Medusa with her hair of snakes to live
with the blind monsters -- the Gorgon sisters -- at the ends of the earth.

1. Say if the sentence is true or false. /3

1. Medusa was a very pretty girl. ___________________________________________


2. Medusa respected Athena. ______________________________________________
3. Athena decided to punish Medusa for her beauty. ____________________________
4. Athena turned Medusa into a hideous monster._______________________________
5. Medusa’s look turned people to ice. ________________________________________
6. Medusa stayed in Athens. ________________________________________________

2. Complete the phrase. /4

1. Medusa lived in the city of ______________


2. Athena was a goddess of _______________________.
3. Medusa’s hair turned into __________________.
4. Athena sent Medusa to live at the ends of the earth with ____________________________.

3. Answer the questions. /7

1. Decide which adjectives describe Medusa and which describe Athena

1- Boasting ………………………………..

2- Wise …………………………………

3- Cruel …………………………………
4- Proud ………………………………………

5- Idle ……………………………………….

6-Fair ……………………………………….

7-Careless ………………………………….

2. Do you think the punishment for Medusa fair? Give your reasons. /1

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Fill in the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the Past Continuous Tense. (10)

1) They ___________________________ in the lake yesterday afternoon. (swim)

2) He ___________________________ on the coach. (sleep)

3) I ___________________________ a book. (read)

4) We ___________________________ breakfast at 7 am yesterday. (have)

5) Sarah ___________________________ the fence. (paint)

6) The kids ___________________________ the picture. (colour)

7) You ___________________________ about the accident. (talk)

8) The dog ___________________________ all last night. (bark)

9) We ___________________________ to the radio yesterday morning. (listen)

10) Pete ___________________________ his car last weekend. (wash)

You might also like