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Grammar
 Common Word
Forms
 Common Idioms &
Expression

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Reading
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Proverb

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Writing
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Listening
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Speaking
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 Some Tongue
Twisters!

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Common Word Forms

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB

Enable (in)Ability = skill (un)Able

Absence Absent
Absorb Absorption Absorbent
Absorben Absorptive
Absorbed (in)
Accept Acceptance Acceptable
Access Accessible
Accomplish Accomplishment
Accuracy Accurate Accurately
Achieve Achievement
Act Action (Actor) (in)Active (in)Actively
Add Addition Additional
Admit Admission
Advertise Advertising
Advertisement
Advise Advice Advisable
(dis)Agree (dis)Agreement (dis)Agreeable (dis)Agreeably
Agriculture agricultural

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Amuse Amusement Amusing
Anger Angry Angrily
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(dis)Appear (dis)appearance Apparent apparently
Anxiety Anxious
Apply Application
Applicant
Argue Argument Argumentative
Approve Approval
Arrive Arrival
Art – Artist Artistic Artistically
Assist Assistance
Assistant
Astonish Astonishment Astonished
Astonishing
Attend Attendance – Attendant
Attention Attentive Attentively
Attract Attraction Attractive Attractively
(Automate) Automation Automatic Automatically
Awareness Aware
Base Basic Basically
Bear – bore – born Birth
Beautify Beauty Beautiful Beautifully
Behave Behaviour

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Believe (un)Belief (un)Believable (un)Believably
(un)Believer
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Bleed Blood Bloody
Book Bookish
Book Booking
Bore Boredom Bored
Boring
Bravery Brave Bravely
Break Break – Breakage (un)Breakable
Breath Breath Breathless Breathlessly
Broaden Broadness – Breadth Broad Broadly
Brother Brotherly
Bury Burial
Calculation Calculation
Calculator
Calmness Calm Calmly
Capacity Capable
Care (for) Care (of) Careful Carefully
Carefulness Careless
Carelessness

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Carry (mis)Carriage
Cause Cause
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Centre – Center Central
Certainty Certain Certainly
Certify Certificate
Change Change (un)changeable
Chemistry Chemical
Chemical
Chemist
Child Childish
Childlike
Childless
Choose Choise
Clarify – clear Clarity – Cleanness Clear Clearly
Clean Cleanliness Clean – Cleanly
Clothe Cloth – Clothes – Clothing
Cloud Cloudy – Cloudless
Collect Collection Collective Collectively
Collector
Colour Coloured
Colourful

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Combine Combination
Comfort Comfort (un)Comfortable (un)Comfortably
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Common Commonly
Communicate Communication Communicative
Compare Comparison Comparative Comparatively
Compete Competition Competitive
Competitor
Complain Complaint Complaining Complainingly
Complete Completion (in)Complete (in)Completely
Complexity Complex
Compose Composition
Concentrate Concentration
Conclude Conclusion Conclusive (Conclusively)
Condition Conditional
Confidence Confident Confidently
Conflict Conflicting
Confuse Confusion Confused
Confusing
Conserve Conservation
Continent Continental
Continue Continuation Continuous Continuously
Continuity Continual Continually
Cook Cook – Cooker – Cookery

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Co-operate Co-operation Co-operative
Count (un)Countable
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Countless
Courage Courageous
Culture Cultural
Custom Customary Customarily
Endanger Danger Dangerous Dangerously
Darken Dark – Darkness Dark
Day Daily
Deafen The deaf – Deafness Deaf
(Deceive) (Deception)
(Decency) Decent (Decently)
Decide Decision (in)Decisive (in)decisively
Decorate Decoration Decorative
Deepen Depth Deep Deep
Deeply
Defend Defense
(Deficiency) (Deficient) Delicately
Define Definition
Delicacy Delicate
Deliver Delivery
Deliverer
Delight Delight Delightful Delightfully

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Depart Departure
Depend (on) (in)Dependence (in)Dependent (in)dependently
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Describe Description (Descriptive) (Descriptively)
Destroy Destruction Destructive Destructively
Develop Development Developing
Determine Determination Determined
(Dictate) (Dictation)
Die Death Dead
Differ Difference Different Differently
difficulty difficult
Direct Direction (in)Direct (in)Directly
Director
Dirt Dirty Dirtily
Disappoint Disappointment Disappointed Disappointedly
Disappointing Disappointingly
Discover Discovery
Discuss Discussion
Dispose Disposal
Distance Distant
Distribute Distribution
(Disturb) (Disturbance)

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Divide Division (in)Divisible
Drain Drainage
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Dust Dusty
Dye – Dyed – Dyeing Dye – dyer
Earth Earth
Ease Easy Easily
Economy Economical Economically
Educate Education Educational Educationally
(un)Educated (in)Effectively
Effect Effect (in)Effective
(Electrify) Electricity Electric Electrically
Electrical
Embarrass Embarrassment Embarrassed
Embarrassing
Emit Emission
(Emotion) (Emotional) (Emotionally)
Emphasize Emphasis Emphatic Emphatically
Employ (un)Employment (un)Employed
Employer
Employee
Encourage Encouragement Encouraged
Encouraging

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
End End Endless Endlessly
(Energy) (Energetic) (Energetically)
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Engage Engagement
Enjoy Enjoyment Enjoyable Enjoyably
Enrich Enrichment Rich Richly
Richness
Enter Entrance
Environment Environmental
Equip Equipment
Erode Erosion
Erupt Eruption
Establish Establishment
Examine Examination
Exclude Exclusion Exclusive Exclusively
Expect Expectation Expectant
Expecting
(un)Expected
Experience Experience (in)Experienced
Experiment Experiment Experimental Experimentally
Explain Explanation Explanatory
Explode Explosion Explosive Explosively
Explosive
Exploration
Explorer
Extinction Extinct
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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
(Extremity) Extreme Extremely
Fact Factual
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Fail Failure
Faith (un)Faithful (un)Faithfully
Fame Famous
(Familiarize) (un)Familiarity (un)Familiar (un)Familiarly
Fashion Fashionable Fashionably
(Favour) Favour Favourable Favourably
Fear Fear Fearful Fearfully
Fearless Fearlessly
Feed Food
Feel Feeling
Fertilize Fertilizer
Fill Full (of)
Filled (with)
Fluency Fluent Fluently
Fly Flight
Fool – Foolishness Foolish Foolishly
Football – Footballer
Forget (Forgetfulness) Unforgettable
Forgetful
Form Form
Formation
Fortune (un)Fortunate (un)Fortunately

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Found Foundation – Founder (Fundamental) Fundamentally

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Free Freedom Free (from) Freely
Freshness Fresh Freshly
Frighten Fright Frightened
Frightening
Friend Friendly
Friendliness Friendless
Friendship
Generalize Generalization General Generally
Generosity Generous Generously
Geography Geographical
Goodness Good Well
Govern Government
Graduate Graduation
Graduator
Grow Growth
Guide Guidance
Guide
Habit Habitual Habitually
Happiness Happy Happily

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Harm Harm Harmful
Harmless
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Harden Hardness Hard Hard
Hardly = not
Hate Hate – Hatred Hateful Hatefully
Health (un)Healthy (un)Healthily
Heart Hearty
Heartless
Heat Heat – Hotness Hot
Height High High
Highly
Help Help Helpful Helpfully
Helpfulness Helpless Helplessly
Hero Heroic Heroically
History Historical Historically
(dis)honesty (dis)honest (dis)Honestly
Hope Hope Hopeful Hopefully
Hopeless Hopelessly
(Horrify) Horror Horrible Horribly
Hour Hourly
Hunger Hungry Hungrily

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Hurry Hurry Hurried Hurriedly
(Ignorance) (Ignorant) (Ignorantly)
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Illness Ill
(Illiteracy) Illiterate
Illustrate Illustration Illustrative
Imagine Imagination Imaginary
Immediate Immediately
Importance Important
Improve Improvement
Include Inclusion Inclusive Inclusively
Industrialize Industry Industrial
Industrious
Influence Influence
Inform Information Informative
Inherit Inheritance
Injure Injury
Instruct Instruction Instructive Instructively
Intelligence Intelligent Intelligently
Intend Intention Intentional Intentionally
Intensify Intensity Intense Intensely
Interview Interview
Interviewer

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Intimacy Intimate Intimately
Introduce Introduction Introductory
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Invent Invention Inventive Inventively
Inventor
Invite Invitation
Irrigate Irrigation
Jealousy Jealous Jealously
Job Jobless
Journal
Journalist
Rejoice Joy Joyful Joyfully
Joyless Joylessly
Justify Justice Just Justly
Keenness Keen (on) Keenly
Kindness Kind Kindly
Know Knowledge Knowledgeable Knowingly
Unknown
Land Land
Landing
Enlarge Large
Late Late – Lately
Laugh Laughter Laughable
Law (un)Lawful (un)Lawfully

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VERB NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Laziness Lazy Lazily
Lead Leader
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Lie Lie
Light Light
Lightning
Limit Limit (un)Limited
Limitation
Live Life Alive
Lively
Live
Lock Lock (un)Locked
Logic (il)Logical (il)Logically
Lose Loss – Loser Lost
Love Love Lovely
Loveliness
Luck Lucky Luckily
Luxury Luxurious Luxuriously
Machine Machinery
Magic Magical Magically
Magician
Main Mainly
Majority Major
Man Human
Manly

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Common Idioms & Expression

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Some Tongue Twisters

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The aim is to say each as quickly as possible, without making any mistakes! In English-speaking
countries tongue twisters are often used by speech therapists to improve pronunciation. If
you're a learner of English you will improve your own pronunciation with practise.

Now, can you say these? Say it as fast as you can and DON’T mistakes! 
 A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
 A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.
 A lump of red lead, A red lead lump.
 A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
 A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk.
 Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
 Betty bought a bit of better butter.
 Cheap ship trip.
 Double bubble gum bubbles double.
 Dust is a disk's worst enemy.
 Five fat friars frying fish.
 Flash message!
 Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
 Gertie’s great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.
 Greek grapes.

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 I slit a sheet. A sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet, I sit!
 I thought a thought.
Back  I wish you were a fish in my dish.
 Inchworms itching.
 Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
 Knapsack straps.
 Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
 Lovely lemon liniment.
 Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
 Mr. See owned a saw.
 Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.
 Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
 Peggy Babcock.
 Real weird rear wheels.
 Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.
 Santa's Short Suit Shrunk.
 She said she should sit.
 She sees cheese.
 She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter.
 Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
 Silly sheep weep and sleep.
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 Six short slow shepherds.
 Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks
Back  Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
 Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
 Sure the ship's shipshape, sir.
 The myth of Miss Muffet.
 The sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
 The sinking steamer sank.
 The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.
 There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan.
 Three free throws.
 Tie a knot in the shape of a nought.
 Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.
 Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
 Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
 Unique New York.
 Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
 We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
 Where's the big black bear, the big black bug bit?
 Which witch wished which wicked wish?
 Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
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Proverb
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 Some English
Proverbs
 Some Chinese
Proverbs
 Some Italian
Proverbs
 Some Russian
Proverbs
 Some Weather
Proverbs
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Some English Proverbs

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 A bad excuse is better than none.
 A bad workman blames his tools.
 A barking dog never bites.
 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 A blind man's wife needs no paint.
 A cat in gloves catches no mice.
 A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
 A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
 A lie well stuck to is as good as the truth.
 A man's reach should exceed his grasp.
 A miss is as good as a mile.
 A penny saved is a penny earned.
 A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
 A stitch in time saves nine. (take care of a problem while it's small won't have a bigger
problem to deal with later)
 A stranger nearby is better than a far-away relative.
 A stumble may prevent a fall.
 Absence makes the heart grow fonder – Abstinence makes the heart go wander.

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 Actions speak louder than words.
 After a storm comes a calm.
Back  After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.
 All cats are gray in the dark.
 All good things come to those who wait.
 All that glitters is not gold.
 All things come to those who wait.
 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
 All's fair in love and war.
 All's well that ends well.
 Appearances are deceptive.
 As good be an addled egg as an idle bird.
 As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.
 Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer.
 Bad news travels fast.
 Beauty without grace is like a hook without bait.
 Beggars can't be choosers.
 Better late than never.
 Better to be envied than pitied.
 Birds of a feather flock together.
 Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.
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 Caught between a rock and a hard place - Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
 Chaste makes waste.
Back  Children and fools tell the truth.
 Clothes make the man.
 Confess and be hanged.
 Cowards may die many times before their deaths.
 Curiosity killed the cat
 Delays are dangerous.
 Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
 Dirty water will quench fire.
 Discretion is the better part of valour.
 Do as I say, not as I do.
 Do as you would be done by.
 Dog does not eat dog.
 Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.(don't start making plans for something
until it’s a reality, rather than a pleasant speculation)
 Don't cross your bridges before you get to them. (don't worry about future before need to)
 Don't cry before you're hurt.
 Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
 Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
 Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

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 Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
 Every path has its puddle.
Back  Everyone must row with the oars he has.
 Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Faith will move mountains.
 Familiarity breeds contempt
 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
 Fools seldom differ
 Forewarned is forearmed.
 God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
 Good things come in small packages.
 Great starts make great finishes.
 Half a loaf is better than none.
 Haste makes waste.
 He who hesitates is lost.
 If there is no wind, row
 In for a penny, in for a pound. (do something must do completely)
 It ain't over till it's over.
 Look before you leap.
 Might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. (if you're going to get into the same amount
of trouble, you might as well commit the greater offense)
 Necessity is the mother of invention.
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 Never judge a book by its cover.
 Nobody's perfect
Back  One of these days is none of these days.
 One man's meat is another man's poison.
 Opposites attract.
 Out of the frying pan and into the fire. (to go from a bad to a worse situation)
 People living in glass houses should not pelt stones.
 Practice makes perfect.
 Revenge is a dish best served cold.
 Silence is golden.
 Six of one, half a dozen of the other. (each choice is really the same thing)
 The age of miracles is past.
 The early bird catches the worm
 The bigger the better.
 The course of true love never did run smooth.
 The devil can quote Scripture for his own ends.
 The devil is not so black as he is painted.
 The heart that loves is always young.
 The pen is mightier than the sword.
 The rich man thinks of next year, the poor man of the present moment.
 The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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 There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
 Time and tide wait for no man. (act if have chances as lost chances can't be get back)
Back  Time heals all wounds.
 To listen is to learn, and to understand is to inspire.
 Two sides of the same coin. (two aspects of a situation that are connected by necessity)
 What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
 What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
 Where there's a will, there's a way.
 Wise men think alike.
 Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
 You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
 You're never too old to learn.

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Some Chinese Proverbs

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 A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches.
 A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.
 An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
 A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness.
 A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
 As the dog said, 'If I fall down for you and you fall down for me, it is playing.'
 Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
 If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings.
 If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something.
 Looking at a king's mouth one would never think he sucked his mother's breast.
 People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way.
 The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.
 The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if
no one else did.
 The mouth which eats does not talk.
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Some Italian Proverbs

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 Better one day as a lion than a hundred as a sheep.
 Love rules without rules.
 Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
 When the chess game is over, the pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, kings, and queens all go
back into the same box.
 He who finds a friend, finds a treasure.
 He who scrubs the head of an ass wastes his soap.
 A friend to all and a friend to none is one and the same.
 Love is blind.
 Not all those who are learned are wise.
 The liar needs a good memory.
 Once a thief always a thief.
 Every rule has an exception.
 The tongue has no bone but it breaks bone.
 You catch more flies with honey than a barrel of vinegar.
 A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Some Russian Proverbs

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 (One does not regret giving) one's own ear-ring to one's dear friend.
 A bird may be known by its flight.
 A drop hollows out a stone.
 A fly will not get into a closed mouth.
 A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
 A man should not be struck when he is down.
 A priest's beard is always soaked in butter.
 A sparrow in the hand is better than a cock on the roof.
 A wolf won't eat wolf.
 After a storm comes fair weather, after sorrow comes joy.
 All are not cooks that walk with long knives.
 All is not gold that glitters.
 All roads lead to Rome.
 An empty barrel makes the greatest sound.
 Any fish is good if it is on the hook.
 Any sandpiper is great in his own swamp.
 As you cooked the porridge, so must you eat it
 As you make your bed, so you will sleep.

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 Better a dove on the plate than a woodgrouse in the mating place.
 Better late than never.
Back  Better to stumble than make a slip of the tongue.
 Beware of a quiet dog and still water.
 Chickens are counted in autumn.
 Curious Varvara's nose was torn off.
 Cut down the tree that you are able to.
 Do not carry rubbish out of your hut.
 Do not cut the bough you are sitting on.
 Do not dig a hole for somebody else; you yourself will fall into it.
 Do not look at gift hourse's mouth.
 Do not make an elephant out of a fly.
 Do not measure (others) by your own yardstick.
 Do not plant a tree with its root upward.
 Do not play with fire - you will burn yourself.
 Do not praise yourself whike going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.
 Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science.
 Drowing man clutches at straw.
 Eggs cannot teach a hen.
 Every sandpiper praises its own swamp.
 Every seed knows its time.
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 God does not give to cow that butts.
 God gives to those who get up early.
Back  God takes care of the one who takes care of himself.
 He would exclaim "Ah" looking at himself.
 Idleness is the mother of all vices.
 If you don't know how deep the river is, don't step in.
 It is a bad workman that has a bad saw.
 It is good to be visiting, but it is better at home.
 No money is taken for just looking (at somebody or something).
 Not everyone who has a cowl on is a monk.
 Once burned by milk you will blow on cold water.
 One does not go to Tula with one's own samovar.
 One does not look for good from good.
 One does not sharpen the axes after the right time; after the time they are needed.
 One fisherman sees another from afar.
 One is one's own master on one's own stove.
 One may make up a soft bed (for somebody), but still it will be hard to sleep in.
 One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.
 One would like to eat fish, but would not like to get into the water.
 Onion treats seven ailments.
 Stormy weather cannot stay all the time, the red sun will come out, too.
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 Stretch your legs according to your clothes.
 Take the bull by the horns.
Back  Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
 The appetite comes during a meal.
 The devil is not so frighful as he is painted.
 The end is the crown of any work.
 The one who draws a cart is urged on.
 The peasant will not cross himself before it begins to thunder.
 The scythe ran into a stone.
 The sun will shine into our yard too.
 The tongue speaks, but the head doesn't know.
 There is no evil without good.
 There will be trouble if the cobbler starts making pies.
 There will come a time when the seed will sprout.
 We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost.
 Where something is thin, that's where it tears.
 You can get to the ends of the world on a lie, but you cannot return. .
 You cannot break through a wall with your forehead.
 You cannot pull a fish out of a pond without labour.
 You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse.
 You do not swap horses while crossing the ford.
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 You need a sharp axe for a tough bough.
 You needn't be afraid of a barking dog, but you should be afraid of a silent dog.
Back  You will reap what you will sow.

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Some Weather Proverbs

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 Red Sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning.
 Mare's tails and mackerel scales make tall ships take in their sails.
 Clear moon, frost soon.
 A year of snow, a year of plenty.
 Halo around the sun or moon, rain or snow soon.
 Rainbow in the morning gives you fair warning.
 When the stars begin to huddle, the earth will soon become a puddle.
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About…
My full name: Kỷ Bảo Châu.
Birthday: 30 – 8 –1989 (Virgo).
Home Town: Cantho city.
Nationality: Vietnamese.
Family: father, mother and brother.
Hobbies: music (country), sport (especially basketball),
drawing, informatics.
Habits: listen to music, go out with friends, read book.