1.
What
tables have no legs?
2.
What
is white when it is not clean and black when it is clean?
3.
Riddle
me, riddle me, what is that, over the head and under the hat?
4.
What
goes up when the rain comes down?
5.
A
little old woman with 12 children: some short, some long, some cold,some warm.
What is it?
6.
What
man cannot live inside the house?
7.
What
runs but never walk?
8.
The
doors are open in the morning but shut at night. If you look at them, you will
see yourself inside?
9.
What
kind of teeth cannot bite?
10.
There is a question which we cannot answer
with ‘no’, what question is it?
11.
What
has hands but cannot hold anything?
12.
What
time of the day is it which we can spell from front to back and from back to
front?
13.
It
is your parents’ child, it is not your brother, it is not your sister. Who is
it?
14.
I
go at night and all the day, and yet I
never go away?
15.
Five
cupboards but only one door?
16.
These
two brothers live not far away; one on the left, one on the right; but they
never see each other?
17.
There
is a question to which we cannot answer ‘yes’. What question is it?
18.
We’re
half a tram and half a bus; if in a hurry, go in us?
19.
Somebody
looked at a portrait and said ”Sisters and brothers have I none, but the man in
the portrait is my father’s son. Who is he?
20.
What
is it that a man cannot live without?
21.
It
is a word of five letters. Take away two letters and you have only one left.
What is it?
22.
What
animal sleeps all the winter with its head hanging down?
23.
Elizabeth,
Elspeth, Betty and Bess, they went together to look at a nest. They saw a nest
with four eggs in it. They all took one and left three in it! Why is it so?
24.
And this one jumps from tree to tree.(Is he a
little like you and me?) He has his warm coat on all the time, and loves to
jump about and climb. Who is it?
25.
Clean
but not water. White, but not snow. Sweet, but not honey. What is it?
26.
Two
people are walking along the street. One says, “This is my father’s house, but
I am not his son.” Who spoke?
27.
There
are three workers. They have a brother named John. But John has no brothers.
What can you say about this?
28.
What
is the word that everybody spells wrongly?
29.
It’s
blue by night. By day it is white. It’s cold and not dry. It falls just from
the sky?
30.
What
is it that has always been and yet is only a month old?
31.
Two
brothers, fair and bright, always running, never meet.
32.
When
I eat I live, but when I drink, I die. What am I?
33.
Six
legs, two heads, one tail. What is it?
34.
What
is without hands and without feet, without neck and head, but can open a door?
35.
What
can you hear but not see?
36.
What
begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
37.
What
is it that was tomorrow and will be yesterday?
38.
Four
legs but not an animal. It can have feathers, but is not a bird.
39.
In
spring you are glad to see me, in summer I help you to cool, In autumn I give
you food, In winter I make you warm.
40.
What
clock shows the right time only twice a day?
41.
It
is very old but still it is bright. Just four weeks old, and never will be
five.
42. My FIRST is in PEN
but not in CHALK, my SECOND is in SPEAK but not in TALK, my THIRD is in NIGHT
but not in DAY, my FOURTH is in MARCH
but not in MAY. My FIFTH is in WHITE but not in DARK, my SIXTH is in ALEC but
not in MARK. And all the word is of any colour but not white, with it I can
draw lines and also write.
Proverbs
1.
Live
and learn.
2.
Like
mother, like daughter.
3.
One
man’s mistake is another man’s lesson.
4.
To
get out of the bed on the wrong side.
5.
One
is never too old to learn.
6.
All
is well that ends well.
7.
As
you made your bed, so must you sleep in
it.
8.
One man, no man.
9.
He
laughs best who laughs last.
10.
In
at one ear and out at the other.
11.
To
swim like a stone.
12.
No living man all things can.
13.
A
little bird told me.
14.
Never
say die.
15.
We shall see what we shall see.
Match with their
translations.
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Ніколи не падай духом.
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Плавати
як сокира.
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Поживемо,
побачимо.
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Сорока
на хвості принесла.
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Сміється
той, хто сміється останнім.
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Все
добре, що добре закінчується.
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В
одне вухо влетіло, з другого вилетіло
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Що
посієш, то й пожнеш.
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На
помилках вчаться.
-
Один
в полі не воїн.
-
Вік
живи, вік учись.
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На
помилках вчаться.
-
Яблуко
від яблуні недалеко падає.
-
Встати
з лівої ноги.
-
Вчитися-ніколи
не пізно.
English grammar in proverbs and sayings.
The Present and Future Simple in First and Second
Conditionals
1. If
you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
2. If
the sky falls, we shall catch larks.
3. If
one sheep leaps over the ditch, all the rest will follow.
4. Don’t
cross a bridge till you come to it.
5. Don’t
trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
6. I’ll
believe when I see it.
7. Don’t
cry before you are hurt.
8. Don’t
halloo till you are out of the wood.
9. Don’t
count your chicken before they are hatched.
10.
When the cat is away the mice will play.
Passive Voice
1. A
man is known by the company he keeps.
2. A
name is sooner lost than won.
3. Rome
was not built in a day.
4. Ask
no questions and you will be told no lies.
5. What
is done, cannot be undone.
6. Eaten
bread is soon forgotten.
7. The
devil is not so black as he is painted.
8. What
is done by night appears by day.
9. He
who is born a fool will never be cured.
10.
Well begun, well done.
11.
Lost time is never found again.
12.
Life is made up of little things.
The Perfect tenses.
1. We
know not what is good until we have lost it.
2. One
has made one’s bed and one must lie on it.
3. Who
has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet.
4. Every oak has been an acorn.
5. When
children are quiet, they have done something ill.
6. Drink
as you have brewed.
7. The
mountain has brought forth a mouse.
8. A
lot of water has run under the bridge.
9. Don’t
sell the bear’s skin before you have caught the bear.
10.It is too late to lock the door after the horse
has bolted.
Match the two halves of the
proverbs and find their translations.
1.A
bird in the hand
|
a.
is the architect of his own fortune.
|
Кожна людина є
творцем свого щастя.
|
2.Before
you make a friend
|
b.
where it is shallowest.
|
Звичка-друга
натура.
|
3.Custom
is
|
c.
eat a bushel of salt with him.
|
Краще синиця в
руках, ніж журавель у небі.
|
4.Cross
the stream
|
d.
is worth two in the bush.
|
Перш ніж з людиною
подружитися, зїш з нею бушель солі.
|
5.Every
man
|
a.
a second nature.
|
Не знаючи броду,
не лізь у воду.
|
TONGUE – TWISTERS
1. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can.
2. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
3. Two tiny tigers take two taxis to town.
4. Elizabeth’s birthday is on the third Thursday of this
month.
5. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black
nose.
6. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
7. Four Furious friends fought for the phone.
8. I wish you were a fish in my dish.
9. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
a peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
pepper,
Where is the
peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
BEST WISHES FOR:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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May
your birthday be filled with sunshine and smiles, laugher, love and cheer!
-
A
simple celebration, a gathering of friends; here is wishing you great
happiness, a joy that never ends!
-
May
your birthday be the best day ever!
-
As you
sail into another year of your life, I hope your journey through it, is smooth
and joyous! And may all your plans find their way to success. Happy birthday!
-
May a
perfect Birthday be a start to a Happy year!
-
We
chose this birthday greeting
with some
special thoughts in mind –
first, to say we hope your day
will be your favourite
kind,
then, we wish you all the joy
a perfect year could bring –
because you ‘re someone
who deserves the best of everything!
MERRY X-MAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
-
May this Christmas be filled with happiness in all that you do and may
this joy continue the whole year through wishing you a merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year!
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Wishing you a merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperious New Year!
-
Wishing you peace, hope, and all joy of the season! Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year!
-
Wishing your Easter is decorated with love, peace, joys of spring and
the season’s blessings!
- The tulips in the garden are wearing yellow
hats! The pussy willows by the brook have fur like any cats! The bee is honey
hunting, the robin’s chirp is gay, and all the world is singing “oh, Happy
Easter Day!”
GOOD WISHES FOR HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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May your joys be as countless as the golden grains.
-
May all the good things in life abound, not only at Thanksgiving but all
year round!
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Only love is the answer in a world full of hate!
-
A word is silver, but silence – gold!
-
I am not so rich to buy cheap things.
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Judge by deeds and not by words.
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To judge someone, first look at yourself.
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A beauty is for eyes, but mind is for heart.
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Who knows nothing, he trusts everything.
-
To say something without thinking over is the same as to shoot (fire)
without aiming at.
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Every “why” has its “because”.
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If you are not guilty, then ask no sorry!
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Love me little, but love me forever.
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Love doesn’t have any laws.
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A child without mother is the same as a flower without rain.
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Hidden love appears in the day of parting.
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He that cannot obey cannot
command.
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When there is a will, there is a way.
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Children are not supposed to have their opinion, but if they do, the
adults ignore them.
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The essence of happiness is complete freedom from care.
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Most adults think of their childhood as being the most happy time.
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The most painful time is adolescence with intense feelings, lack of
confidence and rebellion against authority.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Teach your child to hold his tongue and he will learn to speak fast.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom without a good one.
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Children begin by loving parents, as they grow older they judge them,
sometimes they forgive them. (O.Wilde)
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There is never a problem child,
there are only problem parents.
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If life were predictable, it would cease to be life.
-
The best teachers are those who tell you where to look but don’t tell
you what to see. 
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