PROVERBS AROUND THE WORLD

1. PROVERBS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD
FIONA, ERGINA, SELENA,
ALTEA, INA, ERISELDI, EDA &
ENDI

2. Choose the right
meaning of the idiom.

3. 1. Don’t count your chickens
before they’re hatched.
A. Don’t count chickens because
they will die.
C. Remember to feed the chickens.
B. Don’t celebrate until you cross
the line.
D. You can’t be a farmer without
chickens.

4. 2. A good deed never loses
A. You never can loose
something.
C. Do it something
B. Something doing good lives
forever.
D. Don’t loose things

5. 3. An eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth.
A. If someone does something to
you get them back.
C. Watch out for your teeth and
eyes.
B. Don’t steal steal your friends
eyes.
D. Look after your eyeglasses.

6. 4. Clothes don’t make the
man.
A. Clothes don’t give you
manliness.
C. Everybody should be naked.
B. Don’t buy clothes because
you’re ugly.
D. The things you wear don’t mean
who you are.

7. 5. Half a loaf is better than
none.
A. Buying bread is healthy.
C. Something is better than
nothing.
B. Don’t eat bread because it has a
lot of gluten.
D. Baking half of a loaf is awful.

8. 6. My house is my castle
A. Everyone has their castle
C. You treat your house like your
kingdom.
B. Houses are like castles.
D. People like buying castles.

9. 7. The early bird catches the
worm.
A. Birds eat worms in the morning.
C. If you eat a worm you will be
healthy
B. Birds are early
D. Waking up early is beneficial.

10. 8. A burnt child dreads fire
A. After an accident people are
more cautious.
C. Don’t put your chirldren in the
fire.
B. You can’t burn children.
D. Be careful when your children
are close to the fire.

11. 9. A little knowledge is a
dangerous thing.
A. You should be clever.
C. Being stupid is dangerous.
B. Going to school has a bad
influence on your life.
D. You have to learn a lot about the
things you do.

12. 10. A storm in a tea-cup.
A. You have to hide in a tea-cup to
avoid the storm.
C. An argument about nothing
B. Don’t make a storm in a tea-cup.
D. Drinking tea in a tea-cup makes
a storm outside.

13. 11. All roads lead to Rome.
A. No matter what road it always
leads to Rome.
C. All roads are made by the
Romans
B. Rome is everywhere.
D. All roads lead to nowhere.

14. 12. Make hay while the sun
shines.
A. When the sun is shining hay is
dangerous.
C. Making hay doesn’t mean you’re
a farmer.
B. Don’t make hay in the sun.
D. Do it while you can.

15. 13. The best is glorious deth,
than shamefull life
A. Life is better than death
C. The death will come anyway
B. You never will day
D. Itisbettertodieforsomethingworthwhile
thantoliveallyourlifeashamedthatyoudid
nothing.

16. 14. Time is a great healer.
A. Time heals the pain.
C. Healing takes a lot of time.
B. Only time is the solution for
healing your broken heart.
D. Don’t heal the time.

17. 15. One swallow does not
make a summer.
A. One thing doesn’t provide
another.
C. Swallows don’t fly in winter.
B. If you see a swallow it doesn’t
mean it’s summer.
D. Swallows live in summer.

18. End
Thank you