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Exercise 4. Match each word in the left-hand column with the best meaning in the right-hand column
Exercise 3. Match each word in the left-hand column with the best meaning in the right-hand column. Place the letter of the best definition in the space provided. Execise 2. Unscramble the following words. Exercise 1. Prove that the proverbs (sayings) have sense. Give examples from your own experience. VOCABULARY PRACTICE 1. There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. (Erma Bombeck) 2. Many people look forward to the New year for a new start on old habits. (Author Unknown) 3. The object of a New year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. (Tynn) 4. Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. (Lane Davidson) 5. Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven. (W. C. Fields) 6. I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays. (Henny Youngman) 7. Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. (Charles M. Crowe) 8. If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise! (Clarence W. Hall)
1. __ Remembrance Day a) the holiday which is characterized by having a picnic lunch in the open air; 2. __ Late Summer Bank Holiday b) the holiday of exchanging greetings of affections, love or satirical comment; 3. __ Boxing Day c) the holiday which is observed throughout Britain in commemoration of people who lost their lives during the two World Wars; 4. __ Christmas d) the way of celebrating the New Year Eve, the time for making merry and observing the old custom of First-Footing; 5. __ Easter e) the holiday named from the custom of playing jokes or sending friends on fools’ errands; 6. __ St. Valentine’s Day f) the holiday which commemorates the discovery of the so-called Gun-powder Plot; 7. __ Pancake Day g) the holiday when people celebrate Christ’s rising fro the dead; 8. __ Bonfire Night h) the holiday which comes on the day preceding the first day of Lent; 9. __ April Fool’s day i) the holiday which is traditionally observed on the fourth Sunday in Lent; 10. __ Mothering Sunday j) the holiday when one visits friends;
11. __ Hogmanay k) the holiday when people give presents / gifts to each other and decorate fir trees.
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