Аракин 4 курс полностью

9. a) Find the Russian equivalents for the following English proverbs: 
1. Easy come, easy go.
2. Everything comes to him who waits.
3. A bad penny always comes back.
4. Christmas comes but once a year.
5. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
6. Tomorrow never comes.
7. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
8. A little learning is a dangerous thing. 
b) Explain in English the meaning of each proverb. 
c) Make up a dialogue to illustrate one of the proverbs. 
CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION 
 
BOOKS AND READING 
 
TOPICAL VOCABULARY 
1. Categorisation: Children's and adult's books; travel books and biography; romantic 
and historical novels; crime/thrillers; detective stories; war/adventure; science 
fiction/fantasy; literary fiction and genre fiction; feon-fiction; pulp fiction.

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Практический курс английского языка. 4 курс под ред. В.Д. Аракина
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Absorbing; adult; amusing; controversial; dense; depressing; delightful; dirty; disturbing; 
dull; fascinating; gripping; moralistic; nasty; obscene; outrageous; profound; whimsical; 
unput-downable. .
2. Books and their parts: paperback and hardback; binding; cover; spine; jacket; title; 
epigraph; preface; the contents list; fly leaf; bookplate; blurb; a beautifully printed book; 
a tome bound in leather/with gilt edges; a volume with a broken binding; a book with 
dense.print/with loose pages; a well-thumbed book.
3. Reading habits: 
to form a reading habit early 
in life; to read 
silently/incessantly/greedily/laboriously; to read curled up in a chair; to read a 
child/oneself to sleep; to make good bed-time reading; to be lost/absorbed in a book; to 
devour books; to dip into/glalice over/pore over/thumb through a book; to browse 
through newspapers and periodicals; to scan/skim a magazine; a bookworm; an 
ayid/alert/keen reader.