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Proverbs and Riddles
Proverbs and Riddles
Proverb
Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life.
These sayings are called by "proverbs".
Example: Time is money = Waktu adalah uang.
(Waktu sangat berharga atau penting maka manusia harus menggunakan waktu sebaik
mungkin)
Kinds of Proverbs:
1. Aphorism (Pepatah)
This proverb offers advice.
Example : Dont go too far in small.
(Persoalan kecil jangan dibesar-besarkan).
2. Parable (Perumpamaan)
That has a moral lesson and has parable.
Example : To carry coals to New-castle.
(Bagai membuang garam kelaut)
3. Slogan (Pameo)
This proverb gives spirit or motivation.
Example :
Early bird gets worm
(Tuhan akan memberikan rezeki kepada makhluk-Nya yang lebih dulu bangun)
Diligence is the mistress of success.
(Kerajinan pangkal kesuksesan)
4. Idiom
It is a phrase that has group of words with a different meaning from the meaning of all the
individual word.
Example :
Pull your sock up. (improve your behaviour)
You can arrange your bedroom at will. (sesuka hati)
Dont mention it. (Youre welcome)
Individual work
What does it mean?
1. Better late than never.
2. Dont go too far in small.
3. By learning to obey we know to command.
4. Haste makes waste.
5. Leaving after having fun.
Work in Group.
Work in group of two, watch a Disney film and find 5 proverb and their meanings.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
2. Riddle
A riddle is a type of poetry that describes something without actually naming what it is,
leaving the reader to guess. It is a light-hearted type of poetry which involves the reader.
Riddles can be about anything, from riddles about animals to riddles about objects. There are
no rules on how to structure a riddle poem, a riddle can be funny or it can rhyme, it depends
on the person writing the riddle.
Example:
1. Its an animal. Its an orange black. It has stripes. It has four paws. It lives in the jungle.
What is it?
It is a Lion.
2. Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all freeze. The answer is traffic
light.
3. Example of Rhyming Riddle
I come in different style.
I can help you walk for miles.
Come in pair.
Im something what you wear.
With heals Im glam
Can you guest what I am?
I am a
Exercise.
Match and Find the answer of the following riddle.
a. What building has the most stories? 1) An eye
b. What is broken every time its spoken? 2) Smoke
c. What four letter word can be read upside 3) Tomorrow
down, downside up, and up to down? 4) Night falls and day breaks
d. What animal walks on all fours in the 5) A river
morning, two in the afternoon and three 6) A man, since he crawls as a child then
in the evening? walks and uses a cane when he gets
e. What falls, but does not break, and what older
breaks but does not fall? 7) library
f. I have holes in my top and bottom, my 8) A sponge
left and right, and in the middle. But I 9) silence
still hold water. What am I? 10) N O O N
g. What can run but never walks, has a
mouth but never talks, has a head but
never weeps, has a bed but never
sleeps?
h. I never was, am always to be. No one
ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am
the confidence of all. To live and breathe
on this terrestrial ball. What am I?
i. I am the black child of a white father, a
wingless bird, flying even to the clouds
of heaven. I give birth to tears of
mourning in pupils that meet me, even
though there is no cause for grief, and at
once on my birth I am dissolved into air.
What am I?
j. Pronounced as one letter. And written
with three. Two letters there are. And
two only in me. I'm double, I'm single.
I'm black, blue, and grey. I'm read from
both ends. And the same either way.
What am I?
Pencil Croco Sun Rainy Beac Song Snow
Case dile h white
3. Some jellyfish can glow in darkness by making their own light. (Paragraph 3)
The word glow in the sentence means.
A. Move
B. Produce
C. Appear
D. Shine
2. PROVERBS
B. Write a short story with the topic Bending without breaking. (At least 200 words)
3. RIDDLES
A. Answer the following riddles!
1) What flies without wings?
2) What is at the end of a rainbow?
3) It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind
stars and under hills And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life,
kills laughter.
4) A pregnant lady named her children: Dominique, Regis, Michelle, Fawn, Sophie and
Lara. What will she name her next child? Jessica, Katie, Abby or Tilly?
5) Which does not belong in this group: Apple, Grape, Banana, Cherry, Pear ?