BI GRAMMAR

If someone offers you a gift, don't question it.

19. "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs."
When you try to do something great, you'll probably make a few people annoyed or
angry. Don't worry about those people; just focus on the good results.

20. "God helps those who help themselves."
Don't just wait for good things to happen to you. Work hard to achieve your goals.

21. "You can't always get what you want."
Don't whine and complain if you don't get what you wanted.

22. "Cleanliness is next to godliness."
Be clean.

23. "A watched pot never boils."
If something takes time to finish, don't watch it too closely because it will seem like
it's taking forever.

24. "Beggars can't be choosers."
If you're asking for a favor from someone else, you have to take whatever they give
you.

25. "Actions speak louder than words."
Just saying that you'll do something doesn't mean much. Actually doing it is harder
and more meaningful.

26. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Don't try to improve something that already works fairly well. You'll probably end up
causing new problems.

27. "Practice makes perfect."
You have to practice a skill a lot to become good at it.

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28. "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
When there are too many people trying to lead and give their opinions, it's confusing
and leads to bad results. Jobs and projects should have one or two strong leaders.
29. "Easy come, easy go."
When you get money quickly, like by winning it, it's easy to spend it or lose it quickly
as well.

30. "Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
If someone's paying you or helping you out, you have to be careful not to make them
angry or say bad things about them.

31. "All good things must come to an end."
You сan't keep having good luck or fun forever; eventually it will stop.

32. "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
When you try to change someone's behavior and it doesn't work, you might have to
change instead. For example, if you're trying to get your classmates to focus on
studying but they want to party, maybe you should just party with them.

33. "One man's trash is another man's treasure."
Different people have different ideas about what's valuable.

34. "There's no time like the present."
If you need to do something, don't wait until later. Do it now.

35. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Different people have different ideas about what's beautiful.

36. "Necessity is the mother of invention."
When you're really in need, you think of creative solutions to your problems.

37. "A penny saved is a penny earned."
Save your money.

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38. "Familiarity breeds contempt."
When you're around someone for too long, you get tired of them and annoyed by
them.

39. "You can't judge a book by its cover."
Things sometimes look different than they really are. A restaurant that looks old and
small might have amazing food, for example.

40. "Good things come to those who wait."
Be patient.

41. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
Have a backup plan. Don't risk all of your money or time in one plan.

42. "Two heads are better than one."
When two people cooperate with each other, they come up with better ideas.

43. "The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill."
People tend to want whatever they don't have.

44. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Don't do mean things to people.

45. "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."
If one member of a team doesn't perform well, the whole team will fail.

46. "Honesty is the best policy."
Don't lie.

47. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Sometimes it's good to be away from your partner, because it makes you want to
see each other again.

48. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."
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If you try to help someone, but they don't take your advice or offers, give up. You
can't force someone to accept your help.
49. "Don't count your chickens before they hatch."
Your plans might not work out, so don't start thinking about what you'll do after you
succeed. Wait until you've already succeeded, and then you can think about what to
do next.
50. "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."
Don't trust other people to do important things for you. You have to do things yourself
to control the quality of the results.

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23. SIMILIES

"A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ..."
Samuel Johnson

 A simile is a way of describing something by comparing it to something else, often
using the word "like" or "as." Here some common similes (plus their meaning)
include:

As alike as two peas in a pod (meaning identical)
As blind as a bat (can't see very well at all)
As busy as a bee (very busy)
As cold as a fish (unemotional)
As clean as a whistle (very clean)
As clear as mud (ironic, meaning not clear at all)
As cool as a cucumber (someone who stays calm)
As delicate as a flower (fragile)
As easy as ABC (very simple)
Fit as a fiddle (very healthy)
Free as a bird (free to go anywhere)
Fresh as a daisy (clean and fresh)
As gentle as a lamb (very gentle)
Good as gold (very good)
Red as a beet (embarrassed)
To Leak like a sieve (full of holes)
As light as a feather (light in weight)
As plain as day (clear to see)
As quick as a wink (happens in a short amount of time)
Sleep like a baby (sleeping soundly)
As silly as a goose (very foolish)
As hard as nails (a person who is very tough)
As slow as molasses (moves very slowly)
As old as the hills (very old)
Pure as driven snow (innocent, chaste)
Run like the wind (run very quickly)
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Sick as a dog (very sick)
As slippery as a fish (a person who is not trustworthy)
Sly as a fox (a person who is clever and tricky)
As smooth as silk (very smooth)
Snug as a bug in a rug (comfortable and warm)
Strong as an ox (very strong)
Sturdy as an oak tree (very strong)
As stubborn as a mule (very obstinate)
Sweet as honey (very sweet)
Tall as a tree (very tall)
Thick as a brick (not very smart)
As tough as nails (very tough)
As wise as an owl (very wise)

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24. METHAPORS

Metaphor Examples for Intermediate Readers

1. The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.
2. She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.
3. The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
4. What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.
5. The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and forlorn.
6. Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.
7. His cotton candy words did not appeal to her taste.
8. Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.
9. Her eyes were fireflies.
10. He wanted to set sail on the ocean of love but he just wasted away in the desert.
11. I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
12. John’s answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution.
13. The cast on Michael’s broken leg was a plaster shackle.
14. Cameron always had a taste for the fruit of knowledge.
15. The promise between us was a delicate flower.
16. He’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the bone.
17. He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s heart was cold iron.
18. She was just a trophy to Ricardo, another object to possess.
19. The path of resentment is easier to travel than the road to forgiveness.
20. Katie’s plan to get into college was a house of cards on a crooked table.
21. The wheels of justice turn slowly.
22. Hope shines–a pebble in the gloom.
23. She cut him down with her words.
24. The job interview was a rope ladder dropped from heaven.
25. Her hair was a flowing golden river streaming down her shoulders.
26. The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur.
27. Laughter is the music of the soul.
28. David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.
29. The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom.
30. Phyllis, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day
31. Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare feet.
32. The daggers of heat pierced through his black t-shirt.
33. Let your eyes drink up that milkshake sky.
34. The drums of time have rolled and ceased.
35. Her hope was a fragile seed.
36. When Ninja Robot Squad came on TV, the boys were glued in their seats.
37. Words are the weapons with which we wound.
38. She let such beautiful pearls of wisdom slip from her mouth without even

knowing.
39. Scars are the roadmap to the soul.
40. The quarterback was throwing nothing but rockets and bombs in the field.
41. We are all shadows on the wall of time.
42. My heart swelled with a sea of tears.
43. When the teacher leaves her little realm, she breaks her wand of power apart.
44. The Moo Cow’s tail is a piece of rope all raveled out where it grows.
45. My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee.
46. The clouds sailed across the sky.

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47. Each flame of the fire is a precious stone belonging to all who gaze upon it.
48. And therefore I went forth with hope and fear into the wintry forest of our life.
49. My words are chains of lead.
50. But into her face there came a flame; / I wonder could she have been thinking

the same?

Metaphor Examples for Advanced Readers

1. The light flows into the bowl of the midnight sky, violet, amber and rose.
2. Men court not death when there are sweets still left in life to taste.
3. In capitalism, money is the life blood of society but charity is the soul.
4. Whose world is but the trembling of a flare, / And heaven but as the highway for

a shell,
5. Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, / Of flowers of chivalry and not of weeds!
6. So I sit spinning still, round this decaying form, the fine threads of rare and subtle

thought.
7. And swish of rope and ring of chain /

Are music to men who sail the main.
8. Still sits the school-house by the road, a ragged beggar sunning.
9. The child was our lone prayer to an empty sky.
10. Blind fools of fate and slaves of circumstance, / Life is a fiddler, and we all must

dance.
11. Grind the gentle spirit of our meek reviews into a powdery foam of salt abuse.
12. Laugh a drink from the deep blue cup of sky.
13. Think now: history has many cunning passages and contrived corridors.
14. You are now in London, that great sea whose ebb and flow at once is deaf and

loud,
15. His fine wit makes such a wound that the knife is lost in it.
16. Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
17. In my heart’s temple I suspend to thee these votive wreaths of withered memory.
18. He cast a net of words in garish colours wrought to catch the idle buzzers of the

day.
19. This job is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations.
20. This song shall be thy rose, soft, fragrant, and with no thorn left to wound thy

bosom.
21. There, one whose voice was venomed melody.
22. A sweetness seems to last amid the dregs of past sorrows.
23. So in this dimmer room which we call life,
24. Life is the night with its dream-visions teeming, / Death is the waking at day.
25. Then the lips relax their tension

and the pipe begins to slide, /
Till in little clouds of ashes,
it falls softly at his side.
26. The olden days: when thy smile to me was wine, golden wine thy word of praise.
27. Thy tones are silver melted into sound.
28. Under us the brown earth / Ancient and strong, / The best bed for wanderers;
29. Love is a guest that comes, unbidden, / But, having come, asserts his right;
30. My House of Life is weather-stained with years.
31. See the sun, far off, a shriveled orange in a sky gone black;
32. Three pines strained darkly, runners in a race unseen by any.
33. But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, it hides away from me.

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34. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned
woman

35. Life: a lighted window and a closed door.
36. Some days my thoughts are just cocoons hanging from dripping branches in the

grey woods of my mind.
37. Men and women pass in the street glad of the shining sapphire weather.
38. The swan existing is a song with an accompaniment.
39. At night the lake is a wide silence, without imagination.
40. The cherry-trees are seas of bloom and soft perfume and sweet perfume.
41. The great gold apples of light hang from the street’s long bough, dripping their

light on the faces that drift below, on the faces that drift and blow.
42. From its blue vase the rose of evening drops.
43. When in the mines of dark and silent thought / Sometimes I delve and find

strange fancies there,
44. The twigs were set beneath a veil of willows.
45. He clutched and hacked at ropes, at rags of sail, / Thinking that comfort was a

fairy tale,
46. O Moon, your light is failing and you are nothing now but a bow.
47. Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, / A naked runner lost in a storm

of spears.
48. This world of life is a garden ravaged.
49. And therefore I went forth, with hope and fear / Into the wintry forest of our life;
50. My soul was a lampless sea and she was the tempest.

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IMPROVE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

 There are more than 250,000 words in the Oxford English dictionary.
 This number does not include slang or technical words.
 However, a good English speaker would normally use only 15,000 to 20,000 of

these words.
 If you think your vocabulary is weak, a little effort everyday over a six to nine

month period can go a long way in improving it.
 Here are EnglishLeap’s top ten vocabulary improvement tips.

1. Make reading the newspaper a daily ritual.
 You may be comfortable reading a particular section but make an effort to
read different articles on every page. The editorial page is highly
recommended not only for vocabulary but also for structuring and presenting
thought.

2. Make it a habit to read a new book every week.
 It is not surprising that those who read a lot develop a good vocabulary.
 You can consider becoming a member of the local library.
 Make a list of wordsthat are new to you and look up their meanings in the
dictionary.

3. Watching English movies and television shows is important for improving
English and learning new English words.
 The best part about watching English videos is that you can learn the correct
pronunciation as well.

4. Use vocabulary cards.
 Vocabulary cards are used by students who are trying to learn many words in
a short period of time.
 You can make your own cards by writing the word on one side and the
meaning on the other side of a square piece of paper.
 It is a convenient tool to learn new words in your free time.

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5. Use the internet.
 The internet is an unlimited resource for reading material.
 Pick up a topic of your choice and search for articles about it.
 You will come across plenty of material to read, which you might find
interesting, and importantly, will also introduce you to new words.
 Be sure to look them up in a dictionary.

6. Don’t forget the new words.
 The best way to ensure that you never forget the new words you learn is to
start using them in your day to day conversation.
 Do not try to force them into a conversation but do use them if you think they
are appropriate.

7. Learn pronunciation.
 Most dictionaries provide us with pronunciations of words using phonetic
symbols.
 It is important to learn the sounds that correspond to these phonetic symbols,
in order to become comfortable pronouncing new words.

8. Learning in groups is always more fun.
 If you have friends who also want to improve their vocabulary, then you can
form a group and share new words with each other.
 You can meet at regular intervals and measure your progress.

9. Learn the root words.
 Root words are words from which words grow with the addition of prefixes and
suffixes.
 For example: The word vocabulary is derived from the Latin root word‘voc’,
which means 'word' or 'name'.
 Other words like advocacy, vocal and vociferous are also derived from the
same root word.
 Hence, if you can recognize some root words, you will get a fair idea of many
derived words.

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10. Keep revising.
 While it is important to read and learn new words, it is equally important to
revise what you have learnt.
 Fix a particular day of the week to revise all the words you have learnt in that
week and add them to your daily vocabulary.

~ BEST OF LUCK ~

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