Тестові завдання з граматики у прислів'ях, приказках та висловах

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Підбір граматичних тестових завдань знайомить учнів із прислів'ями, приказками та висловами, які зберігають у мові перлини народної мудрості, відображають історію, звичаї, традиції та гумор багатьох поколінь людей. Виконання таких вправ сприяє ефективності засвоєння лексико-граматичного матеріалу в усному та писемному мовленні, розвиває пам'ять, логічне мислення, збагачує словниковий запас учнів, визначає рівень володіння учнями вмінням перекладу рідною мовою. Учням буде цікаво дізнатися, що багато прислів'їв та приказок інтернаціональні й до них можна підібрати подібні українські прислів'я з таким же змістом.

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Тестові завдання з граматики

у прислів'ях, приказках

та висловах

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Ці завдання можна використовувати на уроках, факультативних заняттях та в позаурочний час.

The Present Indefinite Tense

Complete the following proverbs and sayings. Use the Present Indefinite Tense.

1. Prosperity makes friends, but ____	a) you cut once
2. The dogs bark, but ____	b) we desire
3. Handsome is as ____	c) adversity tries them
4. The tongue is not steel, yet ____	d) the bell clinks
5. Everything comes to him ____	e) who laughs last
6. He travels the fastest ____	f) it cuts
7. He dances well ____	g) one makes up on the
8. It never rains but ____	round abounts
9. We soon believe what we ____	h) who waits
10. Score twice before ____	i) handsome does
11. As the fool thinks so ____	j) it pours
12. He laughs best ____	k) who travels alone
13. What one loses on the swings ____	1) to whom fortune pipes
	m) the caravan goes on

Fill in the blank of the following proverbs and sayings with the verbs in the Present Indefinite Tense given in brackets at the end.

Absence ______ the heart grow fonder (to make)
Actions ______ louder than words (to speak)
Still tongue ______ a wise head (to make)
The early bird ______ the worm (to catch)

All work and no play ______ Jack a dull boy (to make)
Distance _____ enchantment to the view (to lend)
Familiarity ______ contempt (to breed)
Birds of a feather ______ together (to flock)
A watched pot never ______ (to boil)
A wonder ______ but nine days (to last)
Time and tide ______ for no man (to wait)
Still waters ______ deep (to run)
Many words ______ more than swords (to cut)
Idleness ______ the mind (to rust)
The end ______ the work (to crown)
The dogs _____but the caravan ______ (to bark, to go on)
Practice _____ perfect (to make)
Courtesy _____nothing (to cost)
Tastes _____ (to differ)
Times _____ (to change)

Insert in the blank spaces of the following sentences the form of the verbs given in brackets at the end. Use the Present Indefinite Tense.

Life_____all beer and skittles (to be)
The cowl ____the monk (to make)

What the eye_____, the heart___(to see, to grieve over)
The devil_____so black as he is painted (to be)
Money ____ on trees (to grow)
One swallow ____ a summer (to make)
Clothes ____ the man (to make)
Grime ____ (to pay)

Insert always, ever, never, usually, often, seldom or sometimes in the following proverbs and saying.

Even Homer nods.
Barking dogs bite.
The morning sun lasts a day.
The tongue turns to the aching tooth.
A bad penny comes back.
It rains, but it pours.
Opportunity knocks twice.
Tomorrow comes.
A constant guest is welcome.
A wise man is less alone than when alone.
It is too late to mend.
One is too old to learn.

Make the following conditional clauses into proverbs by completing them

1. If the sky falls

2. If you cannot bite

3. If you run after two hares

4. If you sing before breakfast

5. If you laugh before breakfast

6. If a man deceives me once,

7. If he deceives me twice

8. If the blind leads the blind

9. If one sheep leaps over the ditch

a) you will catch no fish

b) never show you teeth

c) all the rest will follow

d) we shall catch larks

e) you will cry before supper

f) shame on him

g) shame on me

h) both shall fall into the ditch

i) wear it

j) you will catch neither

The Past Indefinite Tense

Fill in the blank spaces of the following proverbs and sayings with the verbs in the Past Indefinite Tense given in brackets at the end.

1. If you want pretence to whip a dog, say that he ____ a frying-pan (to eat)

2. As good luck as ____ the cow that ____ herself with her own horn (to have, to stick)

Almost never_____a fly (to kill)
He who never_____, never___(to climb, to fall)
When you____ just a twinkle in your fathers eye (to be)
Since Adam_____ a boy (to come, to go)
His tongue_____him (to fail)

Complete the following proverbs using the Past Indefinite Tense.

l. Care

2. Since Adam

3. If you want pretence to whip a dog

4. Too much curiosity

5. He who pleased everybody

6. The pot called

7. A bad shearer never

8. When I lent

9. Faint heart never

10. The golden age was

11. He who never climbed

12. It just

13. Almost never

14. A little bird

a) was a boy

b) had a good sickle

c) never the present age

d) I had a friend; he was unkind

e) killed a fly

f) say that he ate a fryingpan

g) won fair lady

h) lost Paradise

i) the kettle black

j) died before he was born

k) never fell

1) came and went

m) killed a cat

n) told me

The Future Indefinite Tense Complete the following proverbs and sayings. Use the Future Indefinite Tense.

1. Do as most men do

2. He who keeps company with the wolf

3. An old dog

4. Take care of the pence

5. The fire which warms us at a distance

6. He who chatters to you

7. You scratch my back

8. What is bred in the bone

9. Claw me

10. Roll my log

11. A straw will show

12. Nature will have

13. Passion will master you

14. Where the water is shallow

15. He that will steal a pin

a) which way the wind blows

b) will never come out of the flesh

c) if you don't master your passion

d) no vessel will ride

e) and I will roll yours

f) and I will claw you

g) then most men will speak well of you

h) will learn to howl

i) will steal a pound

j) will chatter of you

k) and the pounds will take care of themselves

1) will learn no new tricks

m) will burn us when near

n) and I will scratch yours

o) its course

The Continuous Tenses

Complete the following proverbs and sayings paying attention to the use of the Continuous Tenses

1. Fiddle while

2. He that has a long nose

3. The tortoise wins the race

4. Ones left hand does not know

5. Fools

6. Don't cut the bough

7. Know

a) what ones right hand is doing

b) will be meddling

c) you are standing on

d) where one is going

e) thins everybody is speaking of it

f) while the hare is sleeping

g) Rome is burning

The Perfect Tenses

Make the following clauses into proverbs by completing them

1. We know not what is good

2. It is too late to lock the stable

3. When children stand quiet

4. A thief passes for a gentleman

5. The cow knows not what her tail

is worth

6. He knows best what is good

7. Every oak

8. Don't sell the bears skin

9. One has made ones bed and

10. Wine has drowned

11. A lot of water

a) until she has lost it

b) has been an acorn

c) before you have caught the bear

d) until we have lost it

e) more men than the sea

f) they have done something ill

g) when the horse has bolted

h) when stealing has made him rich

i) that has endured evil

1) one must lie on it

k) run under the bridge

The Passive Voice

Fill in the blank of the following proverbs and sayings with the verbs in the Passive Voice

A. Present

B. Past

C. Future Indefinite Tense given in brackets at the end.

The road to hell ____ with good intentions (to pave)
A man ____ by the company he keeps (to know)
Never ask pardon before you ____ (to accuse)
What may be done at any time at no time (to do)
A liar ____ when he tells the truth (not to believe)
A name ____ sooner ____ than ____ (to loose, to win)
A threatened blow seldom_____ (to give)
The ass ____ by its ears (to know)

Rome ____ in a day (not, to built)
Fingers ____ before forks (to make)
Almost ____ never ____ (to hang)
Acorns were good till bread ____ (to find)

Youth ____ (to serve)
Ask no questions and you ____ no lies (to tell)
The fish soon ____that nibbles at every bait (to catch)
What may be done at any time_____ at no time (to do)

Fill in the blanks of the following proverbs with the verbs in the Passive Voice (Present Indefinite Tense) given in brackets at the end. Give Ukrainian equivalents of the proverbs.

Well begun_____half done (do)
Many_____but few____(call, choose)

3. Money spent on the brain ______ never ______ in vain

(spend)

The devil is not so black as he ______ (paint)
The moon_____not___when the sun shines (see)
Don't cry before you _____ (hurt)
Don't count your chickens before they ______ (hatch)
A bird ______ by its note, and a man by its talk (know)
The road to hell ______ with good intentions (pave)

Eaten bread______soon___(forget)
He not____at that laughs at himself first (laugh)
Poets are born, not______(make)
What______by night appears by day (do)
A short horse __ soon_______(curry)
He who is born a fool ______ never ______ (cure)
Life ______ of little things.

The Infinitive

Paraphrase the following proverbs using the Infinitive in the position of the grammatical subject.

It is never too late to mend (_____to late)
It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others (____ to easy)

It is easy to be wise after the event (______is easy)
It is easier to pull down than to build (____ than to build)

It is better to give than to take (______than to take)
It is never too late to learn (_____too late)

Rewrite the following sentences by using "it" as the subject.

To change her mind is a lady's privilege.
To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
The flog a dead horse is useless.
To make a quarrel two are needed.
To wear out is better than to rust out.

The Gerund

Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition preceding the gerunds. Translate into Ukrainian.

Fools grow ______ watering.
A good tale is none the worse ______ twice told.
A watched pot is long ______ boiling.

4. _____ doing we learn.

5. Footprints on the sands of time are not made _____ sitting down.

6. A crow is never the whiter____washing herself often.

7. ______ doing nothing we learn to do ill.

8. There are more ways ______ killing a cat than _____ choking it with cream.

The Participle

Insert in the blanks the present or past participle of the verb given in brackets at the end of each proverb.

A _____ blow is seldom given (threaten)
A _____ child dreads the fire (burn)
A _____ door hangs long (creek)
Let ______ dogs lie (sleep)
There's many a good time ______ on an old fiddle (play)

One volunteer is worth two ______ (press)
A word ______ is past recalling (speak)
Nothing flies into the mouth of a ______ fox (sleep)

______ dogs seldom bite (bark)
No ______ man all things can (live)
The tongue ever turns to the ______ tooth (ache)

Model verbs (Can, May, Must)

Must

Complete the following proverbs using the verb "must".

1. The door must be

2. Children and fools

3. As you make your bed

4. The longest day

5. If you dance

6. One must

7. What must be

8. Everything

9. A man without a smiling face

10. If two men ride on a hors

a) must have an end

b) draw the line some-where

c) must have a beginning

d) either shut or open

e) must be

f) you must pay the fiddler

g) must not open a shop

h) so you must lie on it

i) must not play with edged tools

j) one must ride behind

Can

Complete the following proverbs using the verb "can"

1. Give a he twenty-four hours start

2. Two can live

3. Any blind man

4. Money

5. A house divided against itself

6. Never make threats

7. You never know

8. A man can do no more

9. None can play the fool

10. No man

11. You can have no more of a cat

12. Never put off till tomorrow

a) can see it

b) but her skin

c) what you can do today

d) can't buy everything

e) and you can never overtake it

f) not stand

g) can serve two masters

h) you cannot carry out

i) what you can do till you try

j) so well as a wise man

k) than he can

1) as cheaply as one

May

Complete the following proverbs using the verb "may".

1. Between the cup and the lip

2. A fair face

3. If you don't like it

4. Love will creep

5. A beggar may sing

6. He that fights and runs away

7. Men may come and men may go

8. Sticks and stones may break my

bones, but

9. Little bodies

10. A fool may sometimes

a) you may lump it

b) to speak to the purpose

c) before the thief

d) may live to fight another day

e) a morsel may slip

f) where it may not go

g) may hide a foul heart

h) words will never hurt me

i) may have great souls

j) but I go on for ever

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