Sayings
A woman is as old as she looks. A man is as old as he feels.
You can never say for sure about his (her) age. It seems to me I've known her (him) for ages.
Are you keen on painting (swimming, sports, etc)?
Common phrases
He became famous rather young (old). He died rather young.
where / when money is concerned. (But) he was a clever man all the same.
He is exactly a man who...
To turn to theory rather than to practise. To crown it all
To sum up,
Words fail me! / I am speechless!
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Please, use the structures below in your statements. Develop a talk with your classmates.
There are people neither handsome nor attractive, yet they draw everyone's attention.
He was both smart and energetic, yet he had been a permanent failure.
To be neither... nor...
To be either... or...
To be both... and...
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| Jack London,... great | American novelist, was | born in San Francisco and spent | ... first years | |||||
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| John London,... father of... family, left... | farm and moved to... | town. He tried a lot of trades, but | ||||||
| couldn't make enough money to send... | children to | ... school. Jack London had to begin earning for | ||||||
| ... living at... | early age. He sold | ... morning and evening newspapers in streets. At... age of fourteen | ||||||
| he began working in... factory. He worked eighteen or twenty hours... day. Then he | became... | |||||||
| sailor. Jack London travelled... | lot. He had to do... | very hard work, but he also read... | lot and tried | |||||
| to get... education. He went to... | school and... | University. In addition he read... lot of books on... | ||||||
| History and... | Philosophy. Jack London's ambition was to become... | writer. | ||||||
| Later London went to | ... Far North of... America. He didn't bring back any gold from there, but | |||||||
| he brought something much better than | ... yellow metal. It was... book of... stories about... | life in... | ||||||
| North. He had realized... | ambition; he had become | ... writer. |
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1. When Dickens was a boy... four, his father showed him a beautiful house... the place where they were living... that time.
"Why can't we live... a fine house like that?" the boy asked his father. "We are rather poor, and can't pay... it," his father answered.
Little Charles often went to that place. He liked to look... the house and play outside it. Many years later he really moved... that house and lived there... a long time.
2. Theodore Dreiser, the great American writer, was born... the 27th... August, 1871... a small town... America.
3. When Jack London was a boy... ten, he sold newspapers... the streets and... this way helped
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4. The boy learned to read... the age... five.
Translate from English into Russian.
1. He is exactly the man who started his career in business from scratch.
2. He became well-known rather young.
3. Such people who are both clever and industrious are always a great success in everything.
4. As a rule such people have a great power of observation.
5. The Fords have 100-year experience in producing autos.
6. People of business usually turn to partners with good reputations rather than strangers when they try their hand in something new.
7. He lived lonely that's why he insisted on making his will.
8. His thoughts were always on making friends with this talented and highly qualified engineer.
9. When he was rather young he was in poor health. Gradually he made up his mind to improve it because he had to lead a very busy life.
10.There are people who are neither talented nor hardworking, yet they achieve outstanding results because they have a good luck since an early age.
