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Freshman: Is never in bed past noon.
Senior: Is never out of bed before noon.
Freshman: Reads the syllabus to find out what classes he can cut.
Senior: Reads the syllabus to find out what classes he needs to attend.
Freshman: Memorizes the course material to get a good grade.
Senior: Memorizes the professor’s habits to get a good grade.
Freshman: Lines up for an hour to buy his textbooks in the first week.
Senior: Starts to think about buying textbooks in October… maybe.
Freshman: Does all homework, including optional questions.
Senior: Homework? I knew I forgot to do something last night
Freshman: Always takes notes in class.
Senior: Sometimes wakes up in class.
cut classes – прогуливать занятия
memorize - заучивать
including optional questions – включая факультативные вопросы
TIME Время
| day | |
| night at night | |
| morning in the morning | |
| evening in the evening | |
| noon at noon | |
| afternoon afternoon | |
| midnight midnight | |
| week this week next week | |
| month this month last month | |
| year this year last year | |
| century | |
| watch | |
| clock | |
| alarm-clock | |
| hour an hour, one hour | |
| minute | |
| second | |
| quarter | |
| in half an hour | |
| What time is it? | |
| it is two o’clock 2:00 | |
| at two o’clock 2:00 | |
| ten minutes past two 2:10 | |
| ten minutes to two 1:50 | |
| half past four 4:30 | |
| early late | |
Learn the proverbs:
| Better late than never | Лучше поздно, чем никогда |
| It is never too late to mend | Никогда не поздно исправить(ся). |
| Every day is not Sunday | Ср. Не всё коту масленица. |
Riddles
* * *
Q: What are the two strongest days of the week?
A: They are Saturday and Sunday. All the others are weak (week) days.
* * *
Q: What has two hands and a face, but no arms and legs?
A: A clock.
* * *
(After teaching about telling time)
Teacher: What time is it?
Students: Umm, eight fifty-nine?
Teacher: Nope.
Students: About nine o'clock?
Teacher: No.
Students: What then?
Teacher: It's time to go home.
* * *
It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?
Man (or woman). Crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult and uses two legs and a cane when they're old.
* * *
It has one face and two hands.
It goes and yet it stands
(Clock)
* * *
What is it that was tomorrow and will be yesterday? (today)
SEASONS AND WEATHER
