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Antıquıty 8
Reading and Vocabulary
A. Read the idioms from Ancient Rome below.
Can you understand what they mean? Do you
have a similar phrase in your language?
1. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
2. All roads lead to Rome.
3. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
B. Read the text about idioms from Ancient Rome on
page 76 and complete the text with the idioms’
meanings.
1. make the most of the present to do the things
we want to do
2. denote a limit that they will not go beyond
3. abandon their childish ways because they now
had grown up responsibilities
4. identify and state the issue at hand exactly
5. adapt to the customs there, for the sake of
politeness
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