Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

A land of storytellers Internet project The Irish have a fine tradition of storytelling and have produced a large number of literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Kate O’Brien and Ken Bruen among others. Choose an Irish author and design a page for your portfolio. Include: 14 Irish toasts, sayings and proverbs The Irish have a way with language as reflected by this collection of Irish proverbs. Useful language: 15 • a short biography • a list of their major works • a synopsis of one of their stories • a critical appreciation of one of their works • photos • Match the sentence halves. • Try and explain in your own words what each of these proverbs might mean! In other words …    …, by which I think they mean … …, which means …   I’ll take a guess and say that this means … 1 A trout in the pot is better 2 One beetle 3 The Irish forgive their great men 4 Show the fatted calf 5 It’s difficult to choose 6 An old broom knows 7 In winter the milk goes 8 If you lie down with dogs 9 May you die in bed at 95 10     God made time a shot by a jealous wife. b but not the thing that fattened him. c the dirty corners best. d recognizes another. e you’ll rise with fleas. f but man made haste. g to the cow’s horns. h than a salmon in the sea. i between two blind goats. j when they are safely buried. 68 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv