- •Міністерство освіти і науки україни національний педагогічний університет імені м. П. Драгоманова
- •Way to fluent English
- •Contents
- •Environmental protection
- •1. Read and translate the texts and new phrases.
- •1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- •3. Write the questions to the text and discuss it in the class.
- •4. Match a new word with its definition.
- •5. Fill in missed letters:
- •6. Write your ides and suggestions about what you can do to reduce global warming:
- •7. Read and translate the text and then proceed to the tasks.
- •8. Answer the following questions:
- •9. Make up a dialogue using all new words and phrases from this module:
- •10. Read and translate new words and the text: Freshwater Becoming More Scarce.
- •11. Find the synonyms to the words from the text:
- •12. Answer the questions:
- •13. Complete the sentences.
- •14. Translate and explain what these words mean:
- •15. Discuss these questions in a group:
- •16. Read and translate new words and the text:What’s For Dinner? Genetically. Modified Foods
- •17. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
- •18. Find the opposite in the text.
- •19. Find the synonyms in the text.
- •20. Find out in the text English equivalents of the following words and word-combinations:
- •21. Write the question to the text and discuss it in the class.
- •22. Fill in the sentences with the missed words.
- •23. Match word or word combination with its definition
- •24. Answer the following questions:
- •25. Write 10 advantages and 10 disadvantages about having a big family and compare your answers with your group mates.
- •26. Read, translate and retell the text. Are Dishwashers Good for the Environment?
- •27. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences:
- •28. Readers Respond: What are you doing to help reduce global warming and save the environment? Read the comments from the site http://environment.About.Com. Global warming.
- •Type 0 Conditionals: certainty, general truth
- •If you mix yellow and blue, you get green.
- •If I’m suffering the Web, I use Google. Type 1 Conditionals: real present
- •If you feel lucky, you’ll expect good things.
- •If you study, you’ll pass the test. Practice
- •Type 2 Conditionals: unreal present
- •3. Complete the sentences using the most appropriate verb form from the list (Type 2 conditionals).
- •4. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. Answer the questions according to what you understand from the sentences. Choose the correct answer: Yes, No or possibly.
- •5. What would you do If you were … ? Answer the questions using present or future unreal conditional. Discuss your answers with your classmates.
- •Type 3 Conditionals: unreal past
- •Practice
- •7. Translate the sentences into English.
- •Mixed Conditionals
- •Practice
- •1. Translate the sentences into English
- •Wishes (If only)
- •I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
- •Practice
- •Check yourself
- •Reading for pleasure Sir Walter Scott
- •Exercises
- •Is it truth that young man has really forgotten the name of the 6th knight?
- •9. Read abstract I. For questions (1 – 5) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •10. Read the abstract III. Your task is to put the statements (a - g) to (6 - 13) in correct order according to what the text says.
- •11. Read the abstract III. Choose from (a-g) the one which best fits each space (14 - 19).
- •Sport and games
- •1. Read and learn by heart the word list: Word List on the Subject “Sport and Games”
- •2. Read, translate and retell the text, given below, using the word list Sport and Games
- •3. Read and learn by heart word list:
- •4. Give names for the illustrated sports, using supplementary word list and word combinations:
- •5. Read the words and learn their meaning:
- •Indoor games
- •6. Match the following sports with the right pictures, using supplementary word list and word combinations:
- •7. Read these words and expressions, and learn them by heart:
- •8. Read the dialogues, translate them and choose one of them for learning by heart: Game and Sport
- •The Fitness Craze
- •9. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •10. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •11. Complete the following sentences with the words or phrases from the list below.
- •12. Complete these expressions using the things on the right.
- •13. Read, translate the text. Explain the words giving in the text. Answer the following questions.
- •14. Make up a short dialogue about Olympic Games, using the text, and retell it in pairs:
- •15. Fill in prepositions, if necessary, and explain:
- •16. Translate and retell the text.
- •17. Read and translate the text, given below. Speak on: “The role of sport in modern life”.” Sport as part of school and college life”. How healthy are you?
- •18. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •19. Read and translate the text, given below. Answer the questions, which are given under the text.
- •20. Match each word in column a with a word from column b, and translate each word:
- •21. Match each word in the left-hand column with the appropriate meaning from the right-hand column:
- •22. Read and translate the text, given below. Answer the questions: Sports in Great Britain
- •23. There are 16 sports in this puzzle. Can you find them?
- •24. Write a short description of your favourite sport giving the following information:
- •25. Memorize some idioms or idiomatic expressions dealing with the topic “Sport and Games”:
- •26. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian:
- •Grammar spot Wishes (If only)
- •I wish you were here. (It’s a pity you are not here now.)
- •Practice
- •Reading for pleasure Charles Dickens
- •Dombey and Son Part II
- •Part II
- •Exercises
- •9. Read and complete the text below. For each of the empty space (12-20) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •10. Read the abstract below. For each of the empty space (17-21) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •Health protection
- •1. A. Read and translate the text. Bedside manner and something more? …
- •2. Discuss with your group mates the famous proverb “To err is human”. Can this proverb be applied to the sphere of medicine and health? Do doctors have a right to be mistaken?
- •3. What is your opinion about health insurance? Do you consider it to be necessary in modern society? Give your reasons.
- •4. Explain the meaning of the following words:
- •5. Expressions with the word finger. Match the expressions with their definitions:
- •6. Look at the idioms above. Make a short story, using as much of them as you can. Retell the story to your group mates:
- •7. Fill in proper word:
- •8. Retell the text from ex.7, using the words underlined.
- •9. Write an article on the topic “The impact of the drugs on the human organism”.
- •10. Study the short articles below. Make your own notes about popular consumers’ goods nowadays and their impact on our health:
- •11. Comment on the texts given above. Express your opinion on the subject. Act out dialogues, using new words and thematic vocabulary.
- •12. Prepare a report about junk food and the impact of it’s consuming. Present it in front of the group.
- •14. A. Study the material about junk food. Discuss it in class.
- •Marketing
- •Pregnancy
- •15. Write an article about the problem of junk and unhealthy food in Ukraine. Use the words given in the texts above.
- •16. Rewrite the following sentences and replace the words in bold with phrases from the list:
- •17. Make up your own sentences with the idioms from ex/16:
- •18. A. Read and translate the texts. Blood pressure
- •19. Mind the vocabulary. Write and act out a dialogue on the topic “At the doctor’s”. Use phrases below as a model:
- •20. Match the sympthoms with the replies of the doctor:
- •21. Choose the right answer:
- •22. Read to the complaints below. If you were a doctor what would be your recommendations?
- •23. Study the idioms. Work with the vocabulary and find translation if you can’t guess:
- •24. Write a story, using all the idioms given in ex/23, present it in front of the group:
- •25. Fill in the correct word from the list, there’s 1 extra word:
- •26. Read and translate the text: healthy lifestyle
- •27. A. Find words and word-combinations that correspond to the following meaning:
- •28. Correct mistakes: Healthy Lifestyle
- •29. Write 8 questions to the text, use different types of questions:
- •30. Imagine that you are a doctor. Now you are to give advice to your patient about how to change the lifestyle. Make a dialog, using words and word-combinations from the text.
- •31. Write a timetable of a person who leads a healthy way of life. Discuss it with your groupmates. Grammar spot
- •1. Open the brackets using unreal past.
- •2. W rite sentences with an if-clause.
- •3. Open the brackets using unreal past.
- •5. Rewrite the sentences using unreal past
- •6. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •10. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.
- •Reading for pleasure Oscar Wilde
- •The Happy Prince
- •Exercises
- •1. For questions (1-5) choose the correct answer (a, b, c, d).
- •2. Your task is to put the statements (a - f) to (6-11) in correct order according to what the text says.
- •4. Act the dialogues
- •Love & Marriage
- •Vocabulary:
- •Finding a partner
- •1. There are 15 words connected with marriage. Find them and solve a puzzle.
- •2. Complete the sentences.
- •3. Using this proverb “a great dowry is a bed full of brambles” (“Лучше на убогой жениться, чем с богатой браниться”) make up the story of your own.
- •4. Find the synonyms to the words.
- •5. Find the opposite in the text.
- •6. Describe the picture using the following idioms:
- •1. Unknown words
- •2. Read the text.
- •1. Guessing the riddle.
- •Being in love
- •1. Read all these statements and discuss them in pairs. Battlefield or bed of roses?
- •2. Read these dialogues; explain Dave’s and Brad’s relationships. After discussion make up your own stories connected with topic: “Being in love”.
- •It's as plain as the nose on your face!
- •A chance for romance.
- •3. Romantic quiz
- •4. Love hearts
- •5. Look at the picture. Image your future wedding. Tell us a beautiful story about your white wedding. Try to use all new words, what we have learnt and these proverbs:
- •6. Look at the pictures of Marriages signs, listen to their descriptions, try to guess what it is and say it in one word.
- •Wedding Customs
- •True love
- •On the way to the wedding
- •1. Task: Make a presentation with using all new words you have learnt.
- •2. Learn by heart the idioms:
- •3. Translate these sentences into English, use new idioms.
- •Grammar spot the infinitive
- •The Forms of the Infinitive
- •The Functions of the Infinitive in the Sentence
- •Exercise 5
- •Exercise 6
- •Exercise 7
- •Exercise 8 Organize the expressions into the sentences and translate them
- •Infinitive Constructions
- •The Objective InfinitiveConstruction (Complex Object)
- •The Subjective Infinitive Construction (Complex Subject)
- •Exercise 12
- •Exercise 13
- •Exercise 14
- •Exercise 15
- •Exercise 16
- •The Devoted Friend
- •Exercises
- •I. Answer the questions.
- •Religion
- •1. Study the following:
- •2. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions and give the translation of the definitions.
- •3. Read the words and their explanations. Give the translation of them.
- •1 Kings 2:46
- •4. Wisdom is Supreme
- •4. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions.
- •5. In the following sentences, there is an idiom. Decide what you think is the key word, then look in your dictionary to see if you are right. Rewrite the sentences in non-idiomatic English.
- •6. The following sentences all contain an idiom with one key word missing. Choose one of the four alternatives to complete the idiom.
- •7. The following sentences all contain some idioms. Read and translate them into English. Use a Russian-English dictionary and the English-Russian Phraseological Dictionary by a. V. Kunin.
- •8. Link each of the pictures with one of the idioms listed below. Comment on the meaning of each of them. Use them in situations of your own.
- •9. Use the idioms to make up a story. Each student should take turns building upon the sentence, turn by turn.
- •10. In the following sentences, there is an idiom. Expand on the sentences.
- •11. The following sentences all contain an idiom with one key word missing. Choose one of the four alternatives to complete the idiom and translate the sentences.
- •12. Explain and expand on the following. Use the idioms given in Unit 11.
- •13. Continue the following dialogue. Use the idioms given in Unit 11.
- •14. Read and translate the following passage into Russian.
- •15. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •17. Make up the dialogue where the last phrase will be: "So as the proverb goes..."
- •18. A. Read the following passages and choose the correct key word to complete the idioms. Translate the passages into Ukrainian.
- •19. Speak on one of the following topics.
- •Grammar spot The Gerund
- •The Forms of the Gerund
- •TheFunctions of the Gerund in the Sentence
- •Predicative Constructions with the Gerund
- •Exercise 5
- •Reading for pleasure o. Henry
- •Schools and Schools
- •2. Prove that:
- •3. Add more information to these:
- •5. Imagine that you are:
- •1. Learn new words:
- •2. A. Fill in missed letters:
- •3. There are 17 words connected with food. They go across → and down ↓. Find them and write them here.
- •4. Put the following eating and drinking verbs into the correct squares.
- •5. Read and translate the dialogues. Learn one of them and act on the lesson.
- •6. Translate the following words and word-combinations into English.
- •7. Put in the right order the dialogue. Read, translate and act it.
- •8. Fill in the sentences with the missed words.
- •9. Read and translate the text and then proceed to the tasks.
- •10. Put each of the following words into its correct place in the passage below.
- •11. Group the words below under the following headings.
- •13. Answer the questions.
- •14. Choose a possible adjective to describe each of these foods.
- •15. Match the method of cooking with its definition.
- •16. Put the following names of food and drink under the right headings on the menu.
- •17. A. Translate the following words and word-combinations from the text.
- •In search of good English food
- •18. Translate the proverbs into Ukrainian and explain them in English.
- •19. Match the following English idioms to their respective dictionary definitions.
- •20. Rewrite the sentences in non-idiomatic English.
- •21. Fill in the text with English equivalents of the words. Food for Thought
- •22. Which are the odd men out?
- •23. Complete the table by giving examples for each category. Types of Food
- •24. Fill in the blanks with the right word.
- •24. Read, translate and retell the text. Chocolate – like falling in love …
- •25. Translate into English.
- •26. Write the recipe of your favourite dessert.
- •27. Read, translate and retell the text. Ukrainian cookery
- •Ice Cream
- •29. Translate the dialogue into English.
- •30. Write your own dialogue “At the restaurant” and act it in the class.
- •31. Match two columns. Table manners
- •32. Read and translate the text. Garlic: Nature’s oldest remedy
- •33. Fill in the blanks with the right word.
- •34. Crossword
- •The Participle
- •The Forms of the Participle
- •TheFunctions of the Participle in the Sentence
- •Insert Participle I or Participle II
- •Predicative Constructions with the Participle The Objective Participial Construction
- •The Subjective Participial Construction
- •The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction
- •Reading with pleasure No Story by o.Henry
- •1. Add more information to the following:
3. Read the words and their explanations. Give the translation of them.
Abraham |
The father of the Jewish nation. |
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Adam |
The first man God created. |
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Adultery |
Breaking the marriage promise by having sexual relations with someone else’s husband or wife. |
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Alien |
A person from another country, a stranger. |
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Altar |
A place where people would bring gifts to God. Altars usually had flat surfaces on top and were made of dirt, rocks, wood or metal. |
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Amen |
Means “Yes, this is true!” or “Let it be so!” |
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Anoint |
To pour oil on a person’s head. It meant that God’s Spirit was helping that person do a special job. |
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Antichrist |
Means “against Christ.” In the last days a great evil power called the antichrist will rule over the world and pretend to be like Christ. But Jesus Christ will come and destroy him. |
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apostles |
The special leaders Jesus chose to bring the message about Jesus to the world. First Jesus chose 12 men and then later Paul and some other became apostles. |
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Ark of the Covenant |
A special box made of wood and covered with gold. It had two gold angels on top of it. The written copy of the Ten Commandments was kept inside the box. It was a sign to the people of Israel that God was with them. |
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Asherah |
The name of a fertility goddess that the Canaanites worshiped. Often wooden poles were set up as symbols of Asherah for people to worship at. |
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Atonement |
A payment or offering to remove or forgive sins. In the Old Testament the people of Israel sacrificed animals to show that atonement must be made for the sins of the people. |
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Baal |
The name of a false god that means “Master”. The people of Canaan believed Baal had power over the land, crops, animals. |
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Babylon |
The capital city of Babylonia. The Babylonians captured and destroyed Jerusalem and took many people as prisoners. |
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Baptize |
To wash, dip or immerse in water. Baptism shows that a person’s sins are washed away. He or she has joined the family of God and is united with Jesus in dying to sin and rising ti new life. |
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Blessing, bless |
A blessing is a good gift from God. When God blesses something he makes it prosper. |
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Blood |
In the Bible blood represents the life of something. It was the blood of sacrifice that made it effective. |
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Canaan |
The land God promised to give to Israel. It is at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea where Europe, Asia, Africa come together. |
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Centurion |
An officer in the Roman army who was the leader of 100 soldiers. |
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Christ |
The title of Jesus which means “anointed” or “chosen one” in Greek. The Hebrew word for Christ is “Messiah’. Jesus Christ is God’s chosen one to bring salvation to his people. |
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Church |
A group of the followers of Jesus that meets in a certain place. Jesus calls the church his body. Most of the books of the New testament are letters to churches. |
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Circumcise |
To remove the foreskin of the male sex organ. This was done to symbolize to removal of evil and as a sign of the covenant or agreement between God and the people of Israel. |
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City if refuge |
A place of safety for someone who had accidentally killed someone |
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Commandment |
A rule or teaching that people should obey. God gives his people commandments to help them live a good life |
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covenant |
An agreement or set of promises, especially between God and his people |
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creation |
God created, or made, the world and the entire universe, it is all his creation. |
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crucify |
To nail or tie a person to cross until that his died. |
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curse |
To wish that bad things happen to someone or something. God curses or makes bad things happen, only as a punishment for not obeying him. |
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David |
Israel’s greatest king |
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Day of the Lord |
A phrase used in the Bible for the time in the future when God will destroy evil. |
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Demon |
Powerful evil spirits that work for Satan. Demons can sometimes control people. |
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Dispel |
A follower, someone who believes and does what their leader teaches. Jesus picked 12 disciples to be his special helpers. Today anyone who follows Jesus is in his disciple. |
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Elders |
Older men who where leaders of God’s people |
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Eternal |
Forever, with no end. God is eternal. Followers of Jesus are given the gift of eternal life. |
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Faith |
Confident belief and trust, faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of things even if you can’t see them. To have faith in Jesus means to trust him and believe what the Bible says about him. |
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Famine |
A time when there is not enough food for people. A famine can happen because not enough rain falls, insects destroy the crops or people are fighting a war instead of growing things to eat. |
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Fasting |
Going without food for a period of time. In the Bible fasting was usually done by people during a special time of praying to God, or to show sadness. |
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Feast |
A special time of celebration and eating. Feasts in the Bible celebrated the ways God has helped his people. |
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Firstfruits |
The firs crops that God’s people would collect from their fields and give to God. This was a sign that everything that the land produced belonged to God. |
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Forgive |
Not to punish a person for something wrong he or she has done. To pardon someone. The great message of the Bible is that God forgives us because Jesus took the punishment for the things we have done wrong. |
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Galilee |
The northern part of the land of Palestine. Jesus grew up in the town of Nazareth, in Galilee, and did a lot of his ministry in Galilee |
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Gentiles |
A word meaning “nations”. It is used to refer to anyone who is not a Jew. |
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Glory |
Greatness and majesty that people can see or sense, usually of God. |
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Gospel |
“good news”. The message about how Jesus died and then became alive again to defeat evil, make us new, and give us hope for the future. The job of Jesus’ followers is to share the gospel with people all over the world. |
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Grace |
Showing love and kindness to someone who doesn’t deserve it. The heart of the Christian message is God’s grace- he loves people and saves them even while they are still fighting against him. |
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Hades |
The place of the dead |
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Hallelujah |
A word meaning “Praise the LORD”! It is formed by putting together two Hebrew words: Hallelu ( meaning “ praise”) and Yah ( for the name of God, “ Yahweh,” or “ the LORD”) |
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Heaven |
The place where God is and where other spiritual beings live. The followers of Jesus have their loyalty are citizenship in the heaven because Jesus is there. |
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Heir |
The person who receives or inherits what belongs to a relatives. Their heir usually inherited these things when the relatives died. In the Old Testament Israel was the heir of God and received the promised Land as an inheritance from God. |
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High place |
A place of worship built on top of a hill. High place were altars, stones or wood poles usually used for worshiping false gods. |
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Holy |
Pure, set apart for God. God is holy. He is perfect, doing nothing wrong. |
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Holy Spirit |
One of the three persons of God. In the Old testament we see the Holy Spirit active in the creation of the world |
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Idol |
Anything that is worshiped instead of the true God. In Bible times idols were often statues of false gods made of wood, stone or metal. Idolatry is the worship of idols. |
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Incense |
A collection of spices that is burned to worship God. Incense produces a sweet smell. |
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Israel |
A name meaning “he struggles with God.” God gave this name to Jacob, after he struggled with and angel of God. |
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Jacob |
Son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 tribes of Israel. |
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Jerusalem |
The most important city in Israel. In Bible times Jerusalem was the capital and also the place where the temple of God was Built. Jerusalem is sometimes called “Zion”, “City of David”, “City of God”. |
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Jesus |
A Greek name which means “savior.” It is a form of the Hebrew name “Joshua” which means “the Lord saves”. When the Son of God was born as a human being |
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THE HOLY BIBLE
Did you know that the Bible is the all-time best seller and most widely read book in the world. The Bible is quoted more often than any other piece of literature and has had more influence on our language, customs, traditions, laws than other book ever published.
Yet there are many people who seldom, if ever, read the Bible.
Why?
Many people assume that the Bible's language is too difficult for the average person to understand. Other are a little frightened by the Bible's size, and some people just don't expect to find anything in the Bible that applies to needs and problems of men and women in the 21 century.
The size of the Bible can be a little intimidating. It is a big book or a small library. The Bible is made up of 66 smaller books written over a period of hundreds of years.
LUKE
BLESSING AND WOES
17. He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
20. Looking at the disciples, he said:
Blessed are you who are poor,
For yours is the kingdom of God.
21. Blessed are you who hunger now,
For you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
For your laugh.
22. Blessed are you when men hate you,
when they exclude you and insult
You
And reject your name as evil,
Because of the Son of Man.
23. rejoice in that day and leap for joy,
because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.
24. But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25. Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
26. Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.
LOVE FOR ENEMIES
27. But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28. Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. 30. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you. Do not demand it back. 31. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
32. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 33. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. 34. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. 35. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the most High, because he is king to the ungrateful and wicked.36. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
JUDGING OTHERS
37. Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
39. He also told them this parable: “can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40. A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.’
41. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank on your own eye? 42. How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye, when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
A TREE AND ITS FRUIT
43. “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. 45. The good man brings good things the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.”
THE WISE AND FOOLISH BUILDERS
46.” Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say? 47. I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. 48. He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. 49. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
A LAMP ON A STAND
16. “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light. 17. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. 18. Тherefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”
Ask and it will be given to you
5. Then he said to them:, “Suppose on of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, “friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and i have nothing to set before him.”
7. Then the one insede answers, “Don’t bother me/THE door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.”8. I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man’s boldness he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
9. “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. 10. For everyone who asks receives, he who sees finds, and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
11. “Which of your fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
12. Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13. If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Genesis 11:1
The Tower of Babel
The Languages confused
Now the whole word had one language and a common speech. AS men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to each other? “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”
They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4. Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5. The lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people were building, all speaking the same language. 6. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7. Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
So, the Lord scattered them from there over all earth and they stopped building the city.
That is why the place was called Babel because the Lord confused the language of the whole world.
From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
There is a time for everything
There is a time for everything and everything on earth has its special season.
There is a time to be born and a time to die.
There is a time to plant and a time to pull up plants.
There is a time to kill and a time to heal.
There is a time to destroy and a time to build.
There is a time to cry and a time to laugh.
There is a time to be sad and a time to dance.
There is a time to throw away stones and a time to gather them.
There is a time to hug and a time not to hug.
There is a time to look for something and a time to stop looking for it.
There is a time to keep things and a time to throw things away.
There is a time to tear apart and a time to sew together.
There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.
There is a time to love and a time to hate.
There is a time for war and a time for peace.
9. What does the worker gain from his toil?
10. I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil – this is the gift of God.
Two are better than one
9. Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their work:
10. If one falls down,
his friend can help him up.
But pity the man who falls
And has no one to help him up!
11. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12. Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.
A cord of three stands is not quickly broken.