Expressions+in+English+II

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NATHASHA DHARWAHNE (left) AND SHALBANAAH PALANI (right)

WONG YEE VON, SHALBANAAH AND NATHASHA DHARWAHNE

__//**PROVERB**//__  What is proverb??? Proverb is a short well-known expression that states general truth or  gives advice 

Origin: The word proverbium ( Latin )

Proverbs, together with fables, folktales, folksongs and riddles, are part of every spoken language. They have been handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, until they were recorded and became a folklore treasure for posterity.

The earliest collections of proverbs can be traced as far back as ancient Egypt, about 2500 B.C. The Old Testament attributed some 900 proverbs to King Solomon of Israel (10th century B.C.). The first person, however, to engage more systematically in the collation and classification of proverbs was the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). According to the neo-Platonic philosopher Synesius (A.D.370-413), Aristotle considered proverbs a survival of an older wisdom.

**__//List of Proverb and Meanings//__**

It makes people happy to see a couple in love
 * All the world loves a lover**



It's better to deal with somebody difficult but familiar, than change and risk dealing with somebody worse
 * Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know**

A clean body is just as important as a pure soul
 * Cleanliness is next to godliness**

Hard work brings rewards
 * Diligence is the mother of good f****ortune**

Everybody likes to hear themselves talking about themselves
 * Every bird loves to hear himself sing**

If you believe in what you are doing, you can overcome any obstacles
 * Faith will move mountains**

Wise people will normally think and behave alike in certain situation
 * Great minds think alike**

If you delay your decision too long, you may miss a good opportunity
 * He who hesitates is lost**

Misfortune usually come in large numbers
 * It never rains, but it pours**

Life is full of happiness and pleasure
 * Life is just a bowl of cherries**



It's impossible to follow instruction s from two different source
 * No man can serve two masters**

Things someone has done improperly will come up some time
 * A bad penny always turns up**

For a bad outcome, a person faults his tools rather than himself
 * A bad workman always blames his tools**

A person who boasts about himself draws unwanted things
 * A big tree attracts the woodsman's axe**

It is better to be contended with something one has than to risk losing it by trying to get something better that one may not succeed i n getting
 * A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush**

A friendship once torn,will never be the same again
 * A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound**

A person who has had a bad experience will avoid doing certain things
 * A burnt child dreads the fire**

Difficult times strengthen a person
 * A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor**

A person who make sacrifices in helping or motivating others
 * A candle that lights others and consumes itself**



A craft person who has little waste is often deemed a s skilled
 * A carpenter is known by his chips**

one should preferably avoid discussing issues that are likely to create trouble
 * Let sleeping dog lie**



Its not enough to do something, you must actually do i  
 * The road to hell is paved with good intentions**

Feed the man well and he will love you
 * The way through a man's heart is through his stomach**

Its wrong to harm someone because they have harmed you
 * Two wrong don't make a right**

A person who doesn't want to do anything always find a rea son to avoid ** You are what you eat **What you eat has an effect on your well-being  <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 225%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">
 * Unwillingness easily find an excuse**
 * Truth is stranger than fiction** <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">Event in real life is sometimes stranger than fiction

There is always one who doesn't behave or perform like the others
 * There is a black sheep in every flock**

not careful about spending large amounts of money
 * Penny wise, pound foolish** <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Refers to a person who is careful about spen ding small amounts of money, but


 * Kindness begets kindness** <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">If you are kind to people, they will be kind to you.

You cannot lie forever,the truth always win
 * A lie has no legs**

Be contented
 * A little is better than none**

Very rich people seldom talk about money
 * A loaded wagon makes no noise**

A person taking on a new responsibility will administer changes or improvements enthusiastically
 * A new broom sweeps clean**

A wise person thinks before he speaks
 * A quiet tongue makes a wise head**

Women's behaviour are mutable
 * A woman is a weathercock**

The actions following our verbal convictions are more significant
 * Actions speak louder than words**

A dead person can do nothing
 * Dead men do not bite**

It is better for people to mind their own business and to respect the privacy of others
 * Good fence make good neighbors**

Sometimes that you say which means if two were involved in a bad situation, both must be responsible **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;">
 * It takes two to tango**

A good man is hard to find **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">A modern-day proverb, espousing the difficulty of finding a suitable male partner. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> A little knowledge is a dangerous thing **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> A small amount of knowledge can cause people to think they are more expert than they really are. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">
 * A picture is worth a thousand words** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">A picture tells a story just as well as a large amount of descriptive text. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">

In praises of patience **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Blood is thicker than water **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">So it is, but this proverb hasn't to do with measures of viscosity. The expression, meaning that family bonds are closer than those of outsiders. **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;"> Don't change horses in midstream **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Don't change your leader or your basic position when part-way through a campaign or a project **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;"> Don't keep a dog and bark yourself **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Don't pay someone to do a task and then do it yourself. **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Don't offer advice to someone who has more experience than oneself.
 * All things come to he who waits**

The rash or inexperienced will attempt things that wiser people are more cautious of. **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;"> If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen **<span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Don't persist with a task if the pressure of it is too much for you. The implication being that, if you can't cope, you should leave the work to someone who can.
 * Fools rush in where angels fear to tread**

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Here are a few part of the song lyrics that has proverb in it: <span style="background-color: #e5e5d2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #800080; display: block; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"> [|(At) The end (of a rainbow)] by Earl Grant <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"> //**At the end of a rainbow, you'll find a pot of gold**// At the end of a story, you'll find it's all been told But our love has a treasure our hearts always spend And it has a story without any end <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #f15050; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 192%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">
 * Proverb in songs**

[|"Hymns To The Silence] <span style="background-color: #e5e5d2; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">" <span style="background-color: #e5e5d2; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> by Van Morrison <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"> Yeah in the midnight, in the midnight, i burn the candle //Burn the candle at the both ends//, burn the candle in the both ends Burn the candle in both ends,burn the candle at both ends And i keep n, 'cause i cant sleep at night <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #e5e5d2; color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Where There's A Will] by Supertramp : <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"> //Where there's a will, there's a way//Or so they say //A friend in need is a friend indeed//He'll be there every day And if it's trouble that's in store You know they'll tell you even more Where there's a will, there's a way That's what thet'll say <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #808000; display: block; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"> [|Street Kids] by Elton John : <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"> I've been bottled and been brained Squealers can't be trusted If we fight tonight You can bet we'll all be busted I'd like to break away From the rut I'm in //**But beggars can't be choosers**// And I was born to sin <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #6f9db8; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%; text-align: center;"> [|Ladies first] by Queen Latifah :

Yo, praise me not for simply being what I am Born in L-O-N-D-O-N and sound American You dig exactly where I'm coming from You want righteous rhyming, Imma give you some To enable you to aid yourself and get paid And the material that has no meaning I wish to slay Pay me every bit of your attention Like mother, like daughter, I would also like to mention I wish for you to bring me to, bring me to the rhythm Of which is now systematically given Desperately stressing I'm the daughter of a sister Who's the mother of a brother who's the brother of another <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 256%; text-align: center; text-decoration: line-through;">

Here are a couple of classroom activity that can be done during the clasroom <span style="background-color: #0b5b57; color: #f15050; display: block; font-size: 160%; text-align: center;">

__Proverbs chains__

A. Cut these chains of letters to form proverbs. Example: Nonewsisgoodnews = No news is good news.

1. Inunitythereisstrength = ………………………………………… 2. Afriendinneedisafriendindeed = ……………………………................... 3. Booksandfriendsshouldbefewbutgood = …………………………….................... 4. Nevertroubletroubletilltroubletroublesyou = ................................................................

B. Each number in this activity stands for a letter in the alphabet, Example: 1=A, 2= B, 3=C ........... etc. Write the equivalent letters and cut them to form proverbs:

a. 11.14.15.23.12.5.4.7.5.9.19.16.15.23.5.18 ................................................................... ................................................................... b. 12.9.6.5.9.19.19.23.5.5.20 ................................................................... ................................................................... c. 12.9.22.5.1.14.4.12.5.1.18.14 ................................................................... ...................................................................

__Spot the mistake__

A. There are deliberate mistakes in these proverbs. Spot and correct them. Example: All's well that ends badly. (well)

1. Success has no friends. 2. Patience is not a virtue. 3. The late bird catches the worm. 4. Open confession is bad for the soul. 5. A burnt child doesn't dread the fire.

B. Some words are missing from these proverbs. Find them in this list: Never – not – Don’t – not – No.

1. Poverty is sin. 2. All that glitters is gold. 3. Speak to the man at the wheel. 4. A liar is believed when he tells the truth. 5. Put off till tomorrow what may be done today.

__Shakespeare’s quotations__ William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, lived in England in the sixteenth century. He became an actor and wrote many plays which are well known all over the world. The following proverbs are quotations taken from his works. Try to match these proverbs with their sources. 1. The course of true love never did run smooth. _C_ 2. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. 3. Brevity is the soul of wit. _ 4. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin._ 5. Cowards die many times before their deaths.

__1. A. Romeo and Juliet 2 B. Hamlet 3. C. A Midsummer Night’s dream 4 D. Troilus and Cressida 5. E. Julius Caesar__

Scrambled proverbs__

Put the following words into the correct order to form proverbs A. Short scrambled proverbs

1. Little - helps - every: ........................................................... 2. Consent - silence - gives: .................................................... 3. Say - die - never: ................................................................ 4. Perfect - practice - makes: ................................................... 5. Money - time - is: ...............................................................

B. Long scrambled proverbs 1. invention - the mother - is - necessity - of: ............................................................. 2. the least - talkers - are - doers - the greatest: ......................................................... 3. tastes - disputing - there - no - is - about: .............................................................. 4. wealth - health - better - is - than: .......................................................................... 5. Rome - all - lead - roads - to: ..................................................................................

1. Write ten proverbs on ten slips of paper and then cut each on in half. Students have to match the beginning of each to the end.

2. After students have learned several proverbs or as revision, each pair chooses two or three and makes up a situation where we might use the proverb. They explain the situation without saying the proverb and the other groups have to guess it. (“I keep telling my son that if he does his homework regularly he won’t flunk his tests, but he still skips it all the time” = “You can lead a horse to water…”)

3. Finally, proverb pictionary: make sure you choose proverbs that can be illustrated in some way.

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