MAVO 3 - spreekwoorden

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

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Proverbs and sayings.

Proverbs zijn spreekwoorden / gezegdes. Wat zijn dat eigenlijk?

Spreekwoorden / gezegden

Dit zijn uitdrukkingen met een figuurlijke betekenis. Veel spreekwoorden en gezegden bevatten ook beeldspraak.

Een voorbeeld van een spreekwoord is: "na regen komt zonneschijn".

Een voorbeeld van een gezegde is: "een nieuwsgierig aagje".

De uitdrukkingen zijn niet letterlijk bedoeld. Je moet ze daarom ook niet op die manier opvatten. Met onderstaande voorbeelden wordt het verschil tussen letterlijk en figuurlijk verduidelijkt:

De aap komt uit de mouw!

Letterlijk: er komt een aapje uit een mouw gekropen.

Figuurlijk: het wordt duidelijk hoe iets zit.

True or false: proverbs are easy to understand when it's not your first language.

1. True
2. False

Do you use proverbs in every day speech?

1. yes
2. no
3. sometimes

Never judge a book

Eat, drink

The bigger you are

Every cloud 

A bird in the hand 

It never rains

Good things 

The grass is always greener 

by its cover.

and be merry.

The harder you fall.

has a silver lining.

is worth two in the bush.

but it pours.

come in small packages.

on the other side of the fence.

Which proverb could you use in these situations?

If you want to lose weight, you need to stop eating junk, and you need to start exercising. Today. Not tomorrow.

1. A picture is worth a thousand words.
2. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
3. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I was unemployed, and they offered me a job cleaning prison toilets. I didn’t like the job, but I accepted it.

1. Beggars can't be choosers.
2. Better late than never.
3. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

I won $200 at the casino, and then I spent it on a very expensive meal for me and some friends.

1. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Easy come, easy go.
3. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

When we were kids, our parents taught us how to swim. That knowledge helped me to save my cousin’s life when he was 5 years old.

1. Knowledge is power.
2. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.
3. If you play with fire, you'll get burned.

She tried to help her brother find a job by improving his resume, but he didn’t do anything with it. I guess...

1. Better late than never.
2. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.
3. You don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

I wasn’t sure that he loved her, but then I saw them hugging at the airport.

1. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
2. A picture is worth a thousand words.
3. You don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Learnbeat 4.2

• Do: A + B
• Study: C
• Evaluate yourself: D