Fortune favours the brave. Дополнительные задания для кружка по английскому языку

Step2

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Talk of the devil and he will appear.

Fortune favours the brave.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Exercises

I. Read and translate using a dictionary:

1. “What’s the matter, Smith?” “Oh, it’s you., Mr. Brown. I was just thinking of you/ Talk of the devil and he will appear!” he said.

2. If you can’t give me a flat, please give me a room in the hostel. What I need is a roof over my head. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

3. “I just wanted to ask you: must I take this TV set? I don’t think it’s a good one.” “But it’s a present. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”

4. It is quite true that “fortune favours the brave,” as the old proverbs says. The successful people in life are those who are courageous.

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

Jane lived with her parents in the Far North. But the little girl was ill. She could neither run play. She could not eat.

“There is just one thing that will help Jane,” said the doctor, “but I haven’t got that medicine. We must try to get it as soon as we can. I know what I can do.”

The doctor sent a telegram to a doctor in a far – away city. The doctor in the far- away city got the medicine and went to the airport. He told the captain about the sick girl in the Far North, and the captain told his men about her. The weather was very bad, but one of the pilots said at once, “Give the medicine to me. I shall take it to her.” He took the medicine and got into his airport.

The brave pilot flew on and on all day through the snow and the wind. He flew on and on all night. He did not see any houses, any lights. He saw only snow everywhere.

Jane’s father and many other people got up very early that day. They were all waiting for the airplane.

Suddenly they saw it far away in the sky. “There it comes!” cried Jane’s father. Soon it landed on the snow. Jane’s father ran up to it. The pilot gave him the medicine.

The brave pilot was cold and tired. But he was happy. He knew that now the girl was safe. Jane’s parents invited him into their warm house and gave him a good breakfast. He had a short sleep and then flew back to the far –away city.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Talk of the devil and he will appear.

Fortune favours the brave.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

III. Render into English the following Russian proverbs:

Легок на помине.

Смелость города берет.

Дареному коню в зубы не смотрят.

Не сули журавля в небе, а дай синицу в руки.

Где смелость, там победа.

VI. a) Read the dialogue. b) Use the proverb instead of the italicized words. c) Using one of the proverbs of Step 2, make up a dialogue of your own or repeat this one:

“Oh, that’s a new bicycle you’ve got there!”

“Yes, Dad bought it for me yesterday.”

“You are lucky!”

“How do you like it?”

“It’s a beauty. How does it go?”

“Just fine; couldn’t be better.”

I wonder how much it cost?”

“Fifty something. But where’s your bicycle?”

“Oh, it’s no good any more.”

“Why? It’s quite new. You got it only last year. You can’t be so critical of something that was a present.”

“It’s not that/ It is too small for me now. Dad has promised to buy me another next month.”

“Would you like to try mine?”

“Oh, yes, with pleasure.”

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