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4. Additional ‘creative writing’ task:
Write a week’s private journal expressing the Queen’s possible thoughts,
feelings and worries.
Supplement 2. Man and Animal.
It’s true that not only British are a nation of animal lovers. French, Dutch,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Americans and, of course, Russians are greatly
devoted to them. Animals mostly like mass media influence our everyday life
by giving us the warmth of the soul we lack. And still - it is better to be glued
to your favourite ones than to television. That’s why peoples all over the world
have been creating proverbs, legends, myths, bywords about animals they
worship. We often come across such expressions as: every man has his hobby
horse; don’t make yourself a mouse; or the cat will kill you; if you run after two
hares you will catch only neither; kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs;
the leopard can not change his spots.
To some extent men and animals are alike. Some of them have much in
common in behavior, manners, looks. No wonder that in every language there
exists a good deal of idioms describing actions, the way of living or thinking
that is true of some people…
For example, “bookworms” are those who know every detail of the book.
They “dig information to the root” and never make “dog ears”. “Dog ear” is
another idiom, you see.
When you quarrel a lot and you have a lot of problems that you can’t
solve, you say: “What a dog’s life I have”! ! ! It happens here and there when it
comes to the relationship between men and women.
We form our firm point of view about him or her, but, after all, they are
the people what we expect them to be. We call such people “wolves in sheep
clothing”.
What is a “stag party”? Stag is something with horns on his head, and
party is party. If we look up this expression in the dictionary we get to know
that it is a party for unmarried men.
To cut a long story short, “pigeon-holes” are the compartments for letters.
We are “guinea pigs” when are used in experiments. We can distinguish
“animal verbs”: fox, dog, monkey, ram, hound (“he runs with a hare but holds
with the hound”).
The stories “Why the hare has no tail”, “Why the dog is a friend of man”,
“How the leopard got his spots” contributed a lot to the culture of every nation
and influenced our attitude towards animals. There’s a great number of books
we can read about our tiny friends: “White Fang” by Jack London, “Crying
wolf” by Aesop, “Rikki-tikki-tavi” by J. R. Kipling, and at last “The Jungle
book” to name a few of them.
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