Rome was not built in a day. Дополнительные задания для кружка по английскому языку

Step3

To make a mountain out of a molehill.

Rome was not built in a day.

As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.

Where there is a will there is a way.

Exercises

I. Read and translate using a dictionary:

1. She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over things of little importance, made such a mountain out of this molehill.

2. If you are wise, George, you will go to your office and write me your check for three hundred thousand dollars. You can’t be hanged any more for a sheep than for a lamb.

3. “Still you can learn to do something else, you know. Where there is a will there is a way.” “I’m very willing,” said Smike.

4. Rome was not built in a day, son. We started on the small jobs too, but now we are all skilled workers.

II. Say which of the proverbs following the story makes the best ending to it:

A French man was once travelling in England. He could not speak English well and his vocabulary was not large.

Once when he was eating in a small country inn, he wanted some eggs. But he did not remember the word for eggs. Suddenly through the window he saw a cock. The French man asked what the cock’s wife was called. The waiter told him that she was called a hen. The French men then asked what the hen’s children were called. The waiter told him that they were called chickens. The French men then asked what the chickens were called before they were born. The waiter told him that they were called eggs. “Fine,” said the men. “Please, bring me two eggs and a cup of tea with some cakes.”

To make a mountain out of a molehill.

Rome was not built in a day.

As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.

Where there is a will there is a way.

III. Render into English the following Russian proverbs:

Делать из мухи слона.

Не сразу Москва строилась.

Семь бед – один ответ.

Где хотенье, там и уменье.

Была бы охота, заладится всякая работа.

VI. a) Read the dialogueand find the English proverbs in it. b) Using one of the proverbs of Step і, make up a dialogue of your own or repeat this one:

Jane: Hello, Ann! Why are you looking so unhappy?

Ann: My mother was angry with me today.

Jane: Was she? But why?

Ann: Yesterday, just after school Nina and I went to the cinema to see a new film.

Jane: Was your mother angry with you for that? You are making a mountain out of a molehill, aren’t you?

Ann: Not at all. You see, after the film we went to Nina’s place and had supper there. As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, I said to myself. Then we watched TV. We had such a nice time together.

Jane: I see. So you got home late?

Ann: Of course I did. Just in time to go to bed. Mother punished me.

Jane: It serves you right. Next time you’ll think twice before you do a thing like that.

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