Read the limericks, learn you liked best, then translate or try to write them yourself.

#1

There was an Old Man of Peru,

Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.

He awoke in the night

In a terrible fright

And found it was perfectly true!

#2

There was an Old Person of Dean,

Who dined on one pea and one bean;

For he said, “ More than that

Would make me too fat,”

That cautious Old Person of Dean.

#3

There was an Old Man of Kilkenny,

Who never had more than a penny;

He spent all the money

In onions and honey,

That wayward Old Man of Kilkenny.

#4

There was an Old Man of Apulia,

Whose conduct was very peculiar;

He fed twenty sons

Upon nothing but buns,

That whimsical Man of Apulia.

#5

There was an Old Man of Peru,

Who watched his wife making a stew;

But once by mistake

In a stove she did bake

That unfortunate Man of Peru.

#6

There was an Old Person of Hurst,

Who drank when he was not athirst;

When they said, “ You’ll grow fatter,”

He answered, “What matter?”

That globular Person of Hurst.

#7

There was an Old Man of Berlin,

Whose form was uncommonly thin;

Till he once, by mistake,

Was mixed up in a cake,

So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.

#8

There was an Old Person of Troy,

Whose drink was warm brandy and soy;

Which he took with a spoon,

By the light of the moon,

In sight of the city of Troy

Proverbs.

Read the proverbs, give their Russian equivalents and find some new proverbs about eating, food and the same.

1. Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.

2. No sweet without some sweat.

3. The appetite comes with eating.

4. Man doesn’t live with bread alone.

5. As you brew, so must you drink.

6. You can’t eat your cake and have it.

7. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

8. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

9. Old friends and old wine are best.

10. Forbidden fruit is sweet.

11. First catch your hare, then cook him.

12. Life is not all beer and skittles.

13. Half a loaf is better than no bread.

14. One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

15. You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

16. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

17. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

18. Every man to his taste.

19. Tastes differ.

20. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

21. Fine words butter no parsnips.