Exercise 62 Comment on the following proverbs.

1. Better late than never, but better never late.

2. Say well is good, do well is better.

3. Those do least who speak most.

4. East or West, home is best.

Exercise 63 Fill in the crossword. The vertical line will finally open you the name, which you know very well.

1. Railway carriages for transporting people and freight.

2. The very first railways used them for drawing trains.

3. An Englishman who demonstrated his working model of a steam engine in London in 1808.

4. The fastest means of transport.

5. It makes modern engines work.

6. Very strong.

7. A person on a journey.

8. The inventor of the world’s first steam locomotive.

9. The place where students from different towns live.

10. A person who creates or designs something new.

11. The tractive power of early engines.

Exercise 64 A simile is an expression in which someone or something is described as being similar to something else. An example would be to say that someone is as poor as a church mouse. Can you complete the following similes with blind, wet and cool? Find the Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Johnny was as... as a drowned rat after being caught in the rain. 2. Dad’s knocked his head against the bookshelf again. He’s as... as a bat. 3. Jane is as... as a cucumber – she’ll stay absolutely calm even in the worst crisis.

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