Proverbs

What is a proverb?  A proverb is a short well-known expression that states a general truth or gives advice. 

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Actions speak louder than words.= What a person actually does is more important that what they say they will do.

 All cats are grey in the dark.=  People are undistinguished until they have made a name.

Learn to walk before you run. = Don't rush into doing something until you know how to do it.  

  Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. =  Education is something you keep forever.

Least said soonest mended.  = The more discreet you are, the less damage you  cause.

   Let bygones be bygones. = Let's forgive and forget past quarrels.  

 Let not the sun go down on your wrath. =  Do not stay angry for more than one day.  

 Let the chips fall where they may.=   We should not try to control our destiny

Liars need good memories.=   People who do not tell the truth must be careful to remember what they say.  

  Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.=  An unusual event is not likely to occur again in exactly the same circumstances.  

  Like father, like son.=   A son's character can be expected to resemble his father's.  

 Little strokes fell great oaks.=   If you divide a task into small parts, it becomes easier to do.  

  Look before you leap. =  Consider possible consequences before taking action.

Games, tongue twisters

It could be interesting to take a look at these gameshttp://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm.

Look at the tongue twisters

One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too.


Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?


I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.


How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?


How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

by Meaghan Desbien
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