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Time and tide 
a worm
Better late 
money
Everyday is not  
what you can do today
No man can do  
wait for no man
All work and no play makes 
Sunday
Punctuality is 
than never
II. Make up a story to illustrate one of these proverbs.
Exercise 22
Translate the quotations and comment upon them.
'A day is a miniature eternity.' 
Ralph Emerson
'Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.'
                                       Ralph Emerson
'Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.'
                                 Jean-Paul Sartre
'The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.' 
Euripides
'Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.' 
Emile Coue
Exercise 23
Role-play "Making a TV Programme".
Setting:   The streets of a big modern city.
Situation: A television crew is making a programme about different lifestyles. The journalists stop people
in the street and interview them. They ask questions about their daily routine. They try to find out what time
they get up, whether they get enough sleep, what they have for breakfast/dinner/supper, whether they are
fussy about food, how they get to work, whether they are late for work, what time they come back home,
who does the cooking/cleaning/shopping/washing, etc., whether they are more awake in the morning or in
the evening, what time they go to bed, what they do to keep fit, what they do to relax, whether they have any
kind of social life, what puts them in a good mood, whether their daily routine is always the same.
Characters:
Card I—II   — Christian and Christine, the journalists. 
Card III—IV — Daniel and Diana, an actor and an actress. Famous and well-known.
Card V      — Sheppard, a university student. Not very diligent.
Card VI     — Shirley, a model. Willing to make a career. 
Card VII    — Patricia, a school teacher. Very responsible. 
Card VIII   — Felicia, a housewife. Has a large family. 
Card IX     — Raymond, a businessman. Very busy and very rich. 
Card X      — Letitia, a waitress in a restaurant. Young and carefree.
Card XI     — Simon, a professional driver. Works hard and long hours.
WRITING
Exercise 1
Learn the spelling of the words in bold type from Introductory Reading and exercise 1 on page 68 and be
ready to write a dictation.
Exercise 2
Write a short description of a) your busiest day; b) your day off; c) your favourite day in the form of diary
notes. Follow the pattern:
Exercise 3
Write a composition or an essay on one of the following topics.
1. The Day Everything Went Wrong.
2. How I Organise My Time.
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