ENGLISH FOR JUNIOR STUDENTS

industry is one of the largest in the country, and large sums of
money go to the owners of beauty salons.
II. Make up your own situations or short stories using the phrase
“to cross the Rubicon”.
III. Interpret and translate into Latvian the phrases discussed in
text B.
IV. Discuss the problems in text C.
V. Interpret the proverbs, give their Latvian equivalents and then
make up situations with them.
1. As neat as a new pin.
2. By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
3. Dot your I’s and cross your t’s.
4. Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
5. Faint heart never won fair lady.
6. Many words hurt more than swords.
7. Strike while the iron is hot.
8. To beat about the bush.
9. To make both ends meet.
10. To put a spoke into somebody’s wheel.
11. To wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve.
12. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
VI. Read the following funny story. Ask questions about the
parts of the sentences which have the words to dress, to put
on, to wear. Make your friends answer them.
There was a fire in the middle of the night at a country house
where there were a number of guests. They all ran outside very
quickly – they did not even wait to put on their clothes. Dressed
in blankets and overcoats they were standing watching the flames
when another guest joined them. “Why did you people get so
excited?” he asked. “Now look at me. When I heard the alarm, I got
out of bed, lit a cigarette and quietly dressed myself. In fact I was
putting on my tie when I thought it was not the best tie to wear
with the shirt I had on. So I took it off and put on another tie. So I
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