I really enjoyed reading your blogs and comments last week! Keep up the good work.
Read the proverbs below (from the grammar book Focus on Grammar 4). Respond to them in any way you'd like to. You might comment on one or more that are meaningful to you. Do you have life experience that matches these proverbs? Do you have similar proverbs in your culture? How do they compare? Write 2-3 good paragraphs.
1. Rome wasn't built in a day.
2. He ran away from the rain and was caught in a hailstorm.
3. Silence was never written down.
4. Never promise a fish until it's caught.
5. Stars are not seen by sunshine.
6. Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
7. Skillful sailors aren't made by smooth seas.
8. A good year is known by its spring.
9. Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
10. Great trees are envied by the wind.
11. The night is dark, but the apples are counted.
Your blog response #2 is due Wednesday, 2/19 before class.
I select proverb #6 because I am totally agree. You must forget things that are bad in your life. Contrary you must remember all good moments. Our personal history is building about our memories. Our brain helps us to do this, and remember good moments of our life and forget hard times. Sometimes our brain remember bad times but not so hard as we lived them.
ReplyDeleteProverb #1: This proverb talk about patience. We need patience to achieve our goals. You can tell: "Step by step". This is a quality that youth (of any generation) don't have. In my opinion, this is a quality that human acquire with the age.
In my country we have some similar proverbs, number 1 is exactly the same. However other proverbs have similar ideas or mean the same but expressed with different words.
I think that proverbs are important because represent real life, and common sense from the past. It is curious how different countries and different cultures have same ideas about life.