Методико-дидактична розробка з англійської мови "Topical English Proverbs"

                                      Topical English Proverbs

                 Food

 1.The appetite comes with eating.

 2.Tastes differ.

 3.You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

 4. You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

 5. You can’t eat your cake and have it.

 6. Eating and scratching wants but a beginning.

 7. The more you have, the more you want.

 8. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

 9. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

 10.  Enough is as good as a feast.

 11. Too much pudding will choke a dog.

 12. Forbidden fruit is sweet.

 13. The apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest.

 14. Life is not all cakes and ale.

 15. Half a loaf is better than no bread.

        Family

1. Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families.
2. Like father, like son.
3. People are but children of different ages.
4. Mama knows best.
5. Every family has a black sheep.
6. If youth but knew, if age but could.
7. As innocent as a babe unborn.
8. East or West home is best.
9. There is no place like home.
10.  Blood is thicker than water.
11.  Charity begins at home.
12.  Near is my coat, but nearer is my shirt.
13.  What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
14.  Let them learn first to show.
15.  The child is father of the man.

        Health

1. Health is better than wealth.
2. Early to bed, early to rise makes.
3. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
4. Health is above than wealth.
5. Live not to eat but eat to live.
6. A sound mind in a sound body.
7. Health is above all.
8. Time flies.
9. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
10.  Diet cures more than the lancet.
11.  The early bird catches the worm.
12.  An early river is sure to be in luck.
13.  He who sleeps catches no fish.
14.  First come, first served.
15.  One cannot put back the clock.

Character

1. Honesty is the best policy.
2. Cunning is the fool’s substitute for wisdom.
3. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept.
4. A clear hand wants no washing.
5. A clear conscience is like a coat of mail.
6. Beauty is but skin deep.
7. Coward dies many times before his death.
8. Better be envied than pitied.
9. Pride goes before a fall.
10.  Don’t sell bear’s skin before you have caught the bear.
11.  A name is sooner lost then won.
12.  Birds of a feather flock together.
13.  Deep will call to deep.
14.  Once bitten, twice shy.
15.  One cannot be too careful.

Travelling

1. Don’t cross the bridges before you come to them.
2. Follow the river and you’ll get to the sea.
3. Have flag, will travel.
4. It is a long lane that has no turning.
5. It’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
6. There are more ways to the wood than one.
7. It is better to turn back than go astray.
8. Who will go far must go slow.
9. Every country has its customs.
10.  So many countries so many customs.
11.  A man is known by the company he keeps.
12.  A man’s house is his castle.
13.  The more haste, the less speed.
14.  Don’t swap horses when crossing a stream.
15.  The race is to the swift.

Friendship

1. Old friends and old wine are best.
2. A friend to all is a friend to none.
3. A cracked bell can never sound well.
4. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
5. A man is known by the company he keeps.
6. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
7. A goose is no playmate for a pig.
8. The best mirror is an old friend.
9. Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.
10.  The only unsinkable ship is friendship.
11.  False friends are worse than open enemies.
12.  Treasure is not friends, but a friend is a treasure.
13.  They are rich who have true friends.
14.  No man is useless while he has a friend.
15.  When the friend asks there is no tomorrow.

Labour and Activity

1. Never put of till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Rome was not built in a day.
3. Saying and doing are two things.
4. You never know what you can do till you try.
5. Doing is better than saying.
6. All men can’t be masters.
7. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
8. Better to do well than to say well.
9. Business before pleasure.
10.  Many hands make light work.
11.  He that would eat the fruit must climb the hill.
12.  Score twice before you cut once.
13.  He works best who known his trade.
14.  The shoemaker’s wife is the worst shod.
15.  In the morning mountains, in the evening fountains.

Learning

1. Knowledge has bitter roots but sweet fruits.
2. He that nothing questions, nothing learns.
3. Live and learn.
4. Repetition – the mother of learning.
5. Knowledge is power.
6. The lesson – the best wealth.
7. The study is always useful.
8. All is well that ends well.
9. Better late than never.
10.  A good beginning makes a good ending.
11.  First think then speak.
12.  Live and learn.
13.  There is no royal road to learning.
14.  Eggs cannot teach a hen.
15.  Man does not live by bread alone.