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English Proverbs and Sayings
Министерство образования Республики Беларусь
Отдел образования Новополоцкого горисполкома

Пословицы и поговорки при обучении английскому языку

Учащаяся 9 «Г» класса
Яцкевич Ю.О.

Научный руководитель:
Казакевич А.А. учитель второй категории

Новополоцк, 2010

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Introduction ……………………………………………………………..…...….3 1. The problem of the definition of proverbs and sayings ……..……….….……4 2. The origin of English proverbs and sayings …………………………………. 5 3. The thematic classification of English proverbs and sayings… ……………....6 4. The usage of English proverbs and sayings in teaching English 4.1 pronunciation ..……………………………………………………….……7 4.2 grammar …………………………………………………………......8 4. 3 vocabulary …………………………………………………………....….. 9 4.4 speaking skills ………………………………………………………...….11 Conclusion … ………………………………………………………...……..….13 References……………………………………………… ………………..….…..14 Appendix ……………………………………………………………………...…15

INTRODUCTION

This research is devoted to such an interesting phenomenon of our life as proverbs and sayings, and English proverbs and sayings in particular. Proverbs and sayings are records of the development of civilization throughout its history. We strongly believe that to know people's culture and values, one should study their proverbs. People express their beliefs, customs, habits, knowledge, morals and any other capabilities in their proverbs. Nowadays pupils don’t read much and they don’t show much interest in learning either Russian or English proverbs or sayings. We began to write this work because we know that some children don’t think that English proverbs and sayings are worth learning. We want to prove that English proverbs and sayings can be very useful for learning the language. We read books on linguistics and also searched the Internet in order to find some useful information there. The object of our research is the phenomenon of the English proverbs and sayings. The subject of

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