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A. Match the following proverbs with their meanings and then write
their equivalents in Persian.

English Proverb Meaning Persian Proverb

1. Birds of a feather a) When two people cooperate with
flock together each other, they come up with better
ideas.

2. Actions speak b) When you get money quickly, like
louder than words by winning it, it’s easy to spend it or
lose it quickly as well.
c) When there are too many people
3. Practice makes trying to lead and give their opinions,
it’s confusing and leads to bad
perfect results. Jobs and projects should
have one or two strong leaders.

4. Too many cooks d) You soon forget people or things
spoil the broth that are no longer visible or present.

5. Easy come, e) People like to spend time with
easy go others who are similar to them.

f) Just saying that you’ll do
6. Two heads are something doesn’t mean much.
better than one Actually doing it is harder and more
meaningful.

7. Don’t count your
chickens before g) You have to practice a skill a lot to
become good at it.
they hatch
3 h) Your plans might not work out, so
LESSON 8. Out of sight, out don’t start thinking about what you’ll

do after you succeed. Wait until
of mind you’ve already succeeded, and then
you can think about what to do next.
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