[스크랩] Lesson 1 Picking up Treasures from Proverbs

Lesson 1
Picking up Treasures from Proverbs

Talk and Practice

A
A: Hey, Su-mi! I’m so glad to see you again.
B: Oh. Hi, Sang-jin. Long time no see. What’s new?
A: Some of us are helping clean up the park.
B: You know what they say: “Many hands make light work.”
A: Oh, I like that proverb. I think I need to study more proverbs!

B
A: Min-ji. Can I ask your advice?
B: Sure. What are friends for?
A: I’ve tried hard, but I’m still poor at speaking English.
   What would you do if you were in my shoes?
B: That’s hard to say. Why don’t you try to speak English with your friends?
A: All right, I will. The proverb says practice makes perfect.
B: That’s it.

Read and Think

Picking up Treasures from Proverbs

As you know, a proverb is a short saying that gives advice or tells you something about human life and problems. Maybe you can start your own collection of proverbs with the following. “Well begun is half done!”

One day I was looking for a book of English proverbs at the library. When I found the book, a young man came up to me and said, “I need to make a list of interesting proverbs and explain what they mean. Would you help me?”
“Well, I guess we could make the list together. As they say, Two heads are better than one.”
“And two mouths are noisier than one,” whispered an angry voice from the other side of the library.
We opened the book. “I like this one: ‘The early bird catches the worm.’” I said. “Who wants to get a worm for waking up early?” The young man replied, “You shouldn’t always try to understand the literal meaning of a proverb. This proverb means that if you get up early, you will have a good result.”
Suddenly I felt a hand on my back. It was the library guard, and he looked angry.
“If you don’t keep your voices down, you’ll have to leave,” he whispered.
At first I was worried, but then I remembered, “A barking dog seldom bites.” I simply smiled back at him and said, “Sorry. Sorry."
The young man kept on writing down what I said. “You sure know a lot of proverbs,” he said. I replied, “I like studying proverbs. They can teach us a lot about life.”
The more we talked about proverbs, the more excited we became, and soon we were talking loudly again.
The library guard came to us again and whispered,
“Please be quiet!”
Suddenly I realized that there was a big man standing next to me. And I saw that angry people were all around us. “We can’t read with you two here,” the big man said.
“The sooner you leave, the happier we’ll be, so we’re going to help you finish your list. Now write this down: Live not to eat, but eat to live. That’s my favorite proverb.”
Soon everybody was talking at the same time. “A cat has nine lives is better.” “The best one is Knowledge is power.” “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” “Practice makes perfect.” “Time is money.” “There are two sides to everything.”
After everyone had finished, we gathered up our things and thanked them. “Speech is silver, but silence is golden,” said the guard at the door.

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