Фразеологические единицы семантического поля «Семья». Тренировочные упражнения

Task 1.

Choose the right variant to complete the sentence:

1) Marriages are made in (hell/heaven/hall/harbour)

2) He was very poor. It was a(n) (apple-and-orange/bread-and-butter/bread-and-cheese/water-and-bread) marriage.

3) Tom didn’t love Liz; he just married (market/flat/ convenience/money)

4) It is not every couple that is a (pair/ family/lottery/union)

5) My deer (wife/soul/heart/woman), will you help me?

6) Don’t put your (face/hand/word/finger) between the bark and the tree!

7) She is so young and he is so old-everybody called them (June and January/April and May/ September and February/May and December).

8) They always quarrel; it is a (cat-and-bird/cat-and-dog/mother-and-father/wife-and-husband) existence.

9) Mary didn’t know him; it was a (happy/strange/first/blind) date.

10) Jack is a scientist, Helen is an actress – Extremes (marry/meet/love/part)

Task 2.

Choose an idiom to illustrate every situation:

1) She has no husband.

2) Jane told everyone that in June she would marry Tom.

3) My father and mother have been married for 20 years.

4) My aunt often commands her husband.

5) Violet can’t say a word to her husband.

6) Her husband doesn’t come home in time.

7) We have decided not to meet any more.

8) Alice doesn’t tell anyone about her problems at home.

9) Soon my mother will have a baby.

10) Rose has some problems with milk.

She named the day.

The gray mare is better horse.

Today we celebrate their silver wedding.

She suspects that it is a bad faith.

She is a bachelor girl.

Now she is in a delicate state.

She washes her dirty linen at home.

She has to bring baby up by hand.

She is a changing vine.

We have parted company.

Task 3.

Find Russian equivalents to the following idioms:

Marry in haste and repent at leisure.

Marriage goes by contrasts.

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.

Like mother like child.

It is a small flock, that has not a black ship.

Happiness takes no account of time.

Love cannot be compelled.

Love will creep where it may not go.

Love is the mother of love.

Task 4.

Fill in the gaps. Use heart (s), hand(s), head(s), eye(s), knee(s), tongue(s), ear(s), fist(s), foot(feet). One and the same word can be used several times.

1. to please one’s … and plague one’s …– выйтизамужпорасчёту

2. The union of …- бракполюбви

3. tooffersmbone’s … – сделать предложение

4. to tie a knot with one’s …. not to be undone with one’s teeth –связатьузамибрака

5. Be a suitor for smb’s …- проситьчьей-либоруки

6. dear … (разг.,ласк.) – милый,милая

7. put not your … between the bark and the tree – нестановисьмеждумужемиженой

8. box on the … – пощёчина

9. to cut smb to the … - ранитьвсамоесердце

10. Absence makes the …grow fonder – Разлукаусиливаетлюбовь.

11. tocrystinking …– выносить ссор из избы

12. Towetbaby’s …- праздновать рождение ребенка

13. Bringbabyupby …- вскармливать ребенка искусственно

14. Bytheleft …- незаконнорожденный

15. The darling of all …-всеобщийлюбимец

16. To learn smth. at one’s mother’s …- усвоитьспеленок

17. affairofthe … - сердечные дела, роман, любовная интрига [

18. tolookbabiesinsmb’s … – заглядывать в глаза любимого, ища любви в его взгляде

19. to have a corner in smb’s … – бытьлюбимымкем-либо

20. one’s …desire – предметжелания

21. tocastsheep’s … atsmb – смотреть на кого-либо влюблённо

22. goo-goo … (жарг.) – влюблённые взгляды

23. tothrowoneselfatsmb’s …– во всеуслышание выражать свою любовь

24. a cold … and a warm … – рукихолодные,сердцегорячее

25. to kiss one’s … to smb- послатьвоздушныйпоцелуй

26. to be … and heels in love – бытьпоушивлюблённым

27. toturnsmb’s … – вскружить голову

28. to break smb’s … – разбитьсердце

29. to give one’s … to smb – отдатьсвоёсердце

30. to have a soft corner in one’s … for smb – бытьнеравнодушным

31. to set one’s … at smb – увлечьсякем-либо

32. to wear one’s … upon one’s sleeve – бытьвлюбчивым

33. towinsmb’s …- завоевать чьё-либо сердце

34. The … thatonetrulylovesneverforgets. – Сердце, которое хоть раз по-настоящему любило, никогда об этом не забудет.

35. to keep a jealous … on – ревнивозаботиться

Task 5.

Try to choose where it is better to use “mother or father”:

1. To learn smth. at one’s ...’s knee

2. To drink in smth. with one’s ...’s milk

3. Like ... like child

4. Like ... like son.

5. As is the ... so is her daughter

6. The child is ...of the man

7. Men are what their ... made them

8. ...’s darlings make but milksop heroes

9. Every... thinks her own posting a swan

10. Many a good ... has but a bad son

11. A miserly ... makes a prodigal son

12. ‘Tis a happy thing to be the ... unto many sons

13. Love is the ... of love.

Task 6.

Chose what adjective suits the group of idioms best:

1)

a … husband makes a … wife.

Many a … father has but a bad son.

Love sought is …, but given unsought is better.

2)

The … cock so doth the young.

A chip of the … block

the...lady

3)

A … thing

A …fallow

The …one’s

4)

The course of … love never did run smooth.

We are that …lovers run into strange capers.

…-loveknot

Old, true, little, good

Task 7.

Look at the idioms and guess what “animal” is missing.

1)

As the old … crows, so doth the young.

As the old … crows the young one learns.

2)

Love me, love my ...

We may not expect a good whelp from an ill ...

a cat-and-… existence

3)

It is a small flock that has not a black …

to cast …’s eyes at smb

4)

It is a sad house where the …crows louder than the cock.

Like …, like chicken.

5)

Many a good cow has an evil ...

Likecow,like...

… love

Task 8.

Fill in the gaps. Use faith, altar, church, souls, hell, prayer, angel, heaven:

1. to lead to the …

2. to ask in …

3. Marriages are made in …

4. But jealous … will not be answered so,

They are not ever jealous for the cause,

But jealous for they are jealous, ʹtis a monster

Begot upon itself, born on itself.

5. an … of light

6. to lead apes in …

7. the answer to a maiden’s …

8. bad …

What are these words connected with?

Task 9.

Match 2 columns and read the idioms:
1) to marry a) event

2) sweetie b) brother

3) happy c) money

4) in the d) pie

5) half e) rough

6) pigeon f) love

7) the pledge of g) oats

8) wild h) pair

Task 10.

Choose the idioms connected with “children”:

To breed in and in

One’s better half

Olive branches

Mr. Right

By the left

Carry a torch for

To learn smth at one’s mother’s knee

The darling of all hearts

Fix smb’s wagon

10) to look babies in smb’s eyes

11) to do execution

12) to run wild

13) lord and master

14) hostages to fortune

Keys:

Task 1. 1) heaven 2) bread-and-butter 3) money 4) pair 5) heart 6) finger 7) May and December 8) cat-and-dog 9) blind 10) meet

Task 2. 1-e, 2-a, 3-c, 4-b, 5-I, 6-d, 7-j, 8-g, 9-f, 10-h

Task 3. see Appendix 3.

Task 4. 1-eye, heat 2-hearts 3-hand 4-tongue 5- hand 6-heart 7-finger 8-ear 9-heart 10-heart 11- fist 12 – feet 13 – hand 14- hand 15 – hearts 16 – knee 17 – heart 18 – eyes 19 – heart 20- heart 21 – eyes 22- eyes 23 – feet 24 – hand, heart 25 – hand 26 – ears 27 – head 28 – heart 29 – heart 30 –heart 31 – heart 32 – heart 33 – heart 34 – heart 35 – eye

Task 5. 1- mother 2- mother 3- mother 4- father 5- mother 6- father 7- mother 8 – mother 9 – mother 10 – father 11 – father 12- father 13- mother

Task 6. 1 – good 2 – old 3 – little 4 – true

Task 7. 1- cock 2- dog 3- sheep 4 – calf

Task 8. 1 – altar 2 – church 3 – heaven 4 – angel 5-hell 6 – prayer 7 – faith

Task 9. 1- c 2-d 3-a 4-e 5-b 6-h 7-f 8-g

Task 10. 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14

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