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1. Keep breathing.
2. Women ruin music.
3. Radio has no future.
4. My nose bleeds for you.
5. It's like kissing Hitler.
6. 'And pray, what is that?'
7. A yawn is a silent shout.
8. He said he was against it.
9. 'Sensible men never tell.'
10. At last God caught his eye.
11. What time is the next swan?
12. I'm not as normal as I appear.
13. No sex is better than bad sex.
14. I only direct in self-defence.
15. X-rays will prove to be a hoax.
16. As a work of art, it is naught.
17. Democracy will be dead by 1950.
18. What small potatoes we all are.
19. I never met a man I didn't like.
20. He talks French with both hands.
21. I think it would be a good idea.
22. Peace is when nobody's shooting.
23. There is always room at the top.
24. I could prove God statistically.
25. I must have a drink of breakfast.
26. Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?).
27. As innocent as a new-laid egg.
28. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
29. A friend in power is a friend lost.
30. Leadership is action, not position.
31. Well, a lot is my favourite number.
32. To do nothing is every man's power.
33. Never, never, never, never give up.
34. The mind also be an erogenous zone.
35. People say law but they mean wealth.
36. We believe in the life before death.
37. I do, and I also wash and iron them.
38. A raisin is a worried looking grape.
39. Today is what happened to yesterday.
40. Don't decide when you don't have to.
41. No woman can be too rich or too thin.
42. I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
43. Be Thankful Only One Of Them Can Win.
44. But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
45. A lie is that which you do not believe.
46. Would you buy a used car from this man?
47. Too bad she's not queen of some country.
48. Did we really send men to fight in this?
49. I declare this thing, whatever it is ...?
50. Good men must not obey the laws too well.
51. God is for men and religion is for women.
52. A star is just an actor who sells tickets.
53. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
54. Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
55. The covers of this book are far too apart.
56. There is no place to go, and so we travel.
57. I paused like a woodpecker at timber line.
58. She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
59. With humor death is less of a grave matter.
60. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.
61. A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
62. On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
63. Stop the world… Nixon wants to get back on.
64. I have a face like the behind of an elefant.
65. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist….
66. A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
67. 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.'
68. When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
69. We're on the same side - we're out to get me.
70. If you need a friend in Wshington, get a dog.
71. Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
72. He has ever been the tin can on his own tail.
73. Thank you, General. The boys were interested.
74. Fate tired to conceal him by naming him Smith.
75. I rob banks because that's where the money is.
76. Everybody hates me because I'm so universally.
77. It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
78. The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings.
79. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
80. The first rule of winning: Don't beat yourself.
81. Having seen Rambo I know what to do with Libya.
82. If you can forecast accurately, forecast often.
83. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.
84. Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
85. My idea of going for a walk is sitting on a gate.
86. The telephone is my favourite musical instrument.
87. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
88. Whatever may be God's future, we cannot His past.
89. Tell me who you are and I'll tell you who you are.
90. How can I know what I think till I see what I say.
91. And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.
92. It's the orders you disobey that makes you famous.
93. He had the acting ability of the average wardrobe.
94. Most people don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
95. Only a few know the sweetness of the rotten apple.
96. Mindig is ő volt a bádogdoboz a saját farkán.
97. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
98. His hair and teeth were both parted in the middle.
99. God was satisfied with his work and that was fatal.
100. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
101. Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
102. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
103. Ernest Hemingway. Yes I know. They have more money.
104. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
105. You can always tell when he's lying - his lips move.
106. Thelogy is the part of religion that requires brain.
107. The Creater made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
108. She looks like she combs her hair with an eggbeater.
109. To my extreme mortification, O grow wiser every day.
110. I am just turning forty and taking my time about it.
111. Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
112. He walks as if balancing the family tree on his tree.
113. Money isn't everything: usually it isn't even enough.
114. It was a bit like shaking hands with a tired sausage.
115. This country would be all right if Truman were alive.
116. The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.
117. A soldiar is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
118. Forgive me now. Tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.
119. Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.
120. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
121. Your eyes shine like the pants of my blue alpaca suit.
122. The fastest way to a man's heart is through his chest.
123. The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
124. To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on them.
125. In company with several other old ladies of both sexes.
126. No problem is insoluble given a big enough plastic bag.
127. No, I didn't study anything at school. They studied me.
128. Belinda: Az, but you know we must return good for evil.
129. I hate women because they always know where things are.
130. I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.
131. Every word she says is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
132. Don't carry away that arm till I have taken off my ring.
133. They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture.
134. People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
135. Either this is not the Gospel, or we are not Christians.
136. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.
137. We are all of us failures - at least the best of us are.
138. Don't look at me Sir, with - ah - in that tone of voice.
139. Retreat, hell! We're just fighting in another direction.
140. Bachelor - a man, who never makes the same mistake once.
141. WhenI'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
142. Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl?
143. The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
144. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
145. Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. I want to be Cary Grant.
146. A liberated woman has sex before marriage and a job after.
147. You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
148. When you have to kill a amn it costs nothing to be polite.
149. While it was not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter.
150. Swearing is a compromise between running away and fighting.
151. "Henry, why are you here?" - "Waldo, why are you not here?"
152. The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
153. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
154. K. Chesterton: "Thomas's Guide to Practical Shipmaking".
155. God loves the poor, and that is why he made so many of them.
156. If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
157. Man is the missing link between the ape and the human being.
158. Clowns are ordinary folks, just like you and me, only worse.
159. Clergyman: a ticket speculator outside the gates of
160. When you hurt your left ankle watch out for your right knee.
161. I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who carries a raincoat.
162. Father, I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
163. Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
164. I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.
165. Sir, you have two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
166. If at first you don't succeed, give up, don't be a damn fool.
167. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
168. I'd sooner be dead in Los Angeles than alive in Philadelphia.
169. My sermons are long and vigorous, like the penis of a jackass.
170. Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitues our abundance.
171. Deer hunting would be a fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
172. Have you got a pencil? I left my typewriter in my other pants.
173. Sam reads the paper as if he were peeling an enormous banana.
174. I think people shold mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.
175. My life is an open book. All too often open at the wrong page.
176. Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
177. If I came any closer to you, I'll be on the other side of you.
178. God must have loved the common people; he made so many of them.
179. God is love - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.
180. Specialist - A man who knows more and more about less and less.
181. I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
182. I've given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
183. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schelude is already full.
184. She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
185. You don't look like a doctor to me. You haven't any trousers on.
186. If a man sits down to think, he is asked if he has the headache.
187. We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.
188. Everybody has the right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
189. I don't give a damn for a man that can spell a word only one way.
190. Anybody can be pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
191. Maybe there isn't a devil; perhaps it's just God when he's drunk.
192. Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
193. No, Groucho is not my real name. I'm breaking it in for a friend.
194. Teetotallers lack the symphathy and generosity of men that drunk.
195. He was the only horror film star to play monsters without makeup.
196. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
197. Poor Matt. He's gone to Heaven, no doubt - but he won't like God.
198. Every client is a king, but a king is only one client among many.
199. It's better to be wanted for murder than not to be wanted at all.
200. When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
201. If white bread could sing, it would sound like Olivia Newton John.
202. Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
203. Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
204. It's an ordenary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
205. The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
206. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
207. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
208. He had a profile like a set of keys and a nose like a bicycle seat.
209. Whiskey is the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.
210. Scott Fitzgerald. You know, Ernest, the rich are different from us.
211. Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
212. An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
213. Ecologists believe that a bird in the bush is worth two in the hand.
214. His last enigmatic words were, 'No thanks, I already own a penguin.'
215. The average sale is made after the prospect has said 'no' six times.
216. When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
217. I finally had an orgasm and my doctor told me it was the wrong kind.
218. No, to me Buddhism is to getting to know as many people as possible.
219. When I was six I made my mother a little hat - out of her new blouse.
220. I've got to meet God - and explain all those men I killed at Alamein.
221. On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
222. The poor would never be able tolive at all if it weren't for the poor.
223. The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes.
224. I was once so poor I didn't know where my next husband was comig from.
225. The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
226. If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
227. The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
228. By a sudden and adroit movement I placed my left eye against his fist.
229. There is no sense in struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
230. I want to be rich enough to be able to buy all the money in the world.
231. One of the surest signs of his genius is that women dislike his books.
232. If I am a great man, then a good many great men must have been frauds.
233. Know him? I know him so well that I haven't spoken to him in ten years.
234. You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
235. Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
236. If they can put one man on the moon, why can't they put them all there?
237. A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
238. I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.
239. My small nephew got his head jammed in the hole of a Henry Moore statue.
240. High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
241. When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
242. Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of wet toilet paper.
243. We can't let Goldwater and Red China both get the bomb at the same time.
244. After a few months learning geography, now I've got to learn arithmetic.
245. Nincs ami jobban tönkretehetne egy románcot, mint a nő humorérzéke.
246. I love talking about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
247. If that radio announcer doesn't get off the air, I'll stop breathing it.
248. What can you expect of a day that begins with getting up in the morning.
249. My best feature is my smile. And smiles - praise heaven - don't get fat.
250. The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.
251. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail.
252. You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and blow.
253. There are no women composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
254. The Superego is that part of the personality which is soluble in alcohol.
255. Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone's dog.
256. "Justice is blind." Blind she is an' deaf an' dumb, and has a wooden leg.
257. The country that has only one person who can save it is not worth saving.
258. The rate of unemployment is 100 per cent if it is you that is unemployed.
259. I know only two tunes; one of them is Yankee Doodle, and the other isn't.
260. What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions.
261. I don't know his telephone number. But it was up in the high numbers.
262. Politicians should read science fictions, not westerns and crime stories.
263. Long before Billy Wilder was Billy Wilder, he thought he was Billy Wilder.
264. My first wife drove me to drink. I always meant to write and thank to her.
265. I don't know what people have got against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.
266. Armour is the kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
267. A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
268. An independent is a person who wants to take the politics out of politics.
269. The Duke returned from the wars today and did pleasure me in his top-boots.
270. I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
271. The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
272. Mi más a hárfa, mint egy óriás sajtreszelő némi kulturális felhanggal?
273. Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.
274. America may be violent, greedy and colonialist but my God, it's interesting.
275. Works as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
276. It is usual for people to defend their prejudices by calling them instincts.
277. My classmates have all gotten so fat and bold they didn't even recognize me.
278. Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
279. Question: What book would you most like to have with you on a desert island?
280. Australia must be so pretty with all the dear little kangaroos flying about.
281. Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimist about the past.
282. Any simpleton may write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.
283. At school Divinity was my best subject. It usually is with backward students.
284. Worker, examining his paycheck:"Well, I see the goverment got another raise."
285. God made man merely to hear some praise of what He'd done on those five days.
286. She gave me the sort of look she would have given a leper she wasn't fond of.
287. Is this your basketball? It seems to have fallen under my tyre several times.
288. Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanizee much later than others.
289. In the religion of love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
290. The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behaviour to every citizen.
291. The political alternatives in America now are like putting Band-Aid on cancer.
292. In full regalia, she liked like Lyndon B. Johnson dressed up like Elizabeth I.
293. I'm sorry Mr Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language.
294. I would rather that people should wonder why I wasn't President than why I am.
295. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
296. It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.
297. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
298. No Captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
299. My dad was the town drunk. A lot of times that's not so bad - but New York City?
300. When I die, I want to be cremated and have my ashes thrown in Jed Harris's face.
301. What can you do with a man who looks like a female llama surprised when bathing.
302. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to to take you in.
303. You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
304. The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in bed.
305. People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
306. I bought all those Jane Fonda videos. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch'em.
307. I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
308. My folks didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
309. The world is not ready for nuclear disarmament, or any other kind of disarmament.
310. I'm glad we'be been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.
311. I have an absolute rule. I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make.
312. If you had been born two days later you would have been kind, generous and witty.
313. Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.
314. I just want to make one ome brief statement about psychoanalysis:"Fuck Dr Freud."
315. It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
316. I used to sing in the chorus, till they found out where the noise was coming from.
317. He's one of those men whose legs you have to count to make sure they aren't mules.
318. If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.
319. Hello! We heard you at the door, but just thought you were part of the bad weather.
320. Your right to wear a mint-green polyester leisure suit ends where it meets my eyes.
321. All I know of birds to this day is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
322. It is, of course, a bit of a drawback that science was invented after I left school.
323. When you can't afford to hire the best, hire the young who are going to be the best.
324. Attempting to murder you was just a silly way of trying to draw attention to myself.
325. She was one of the best informed women that I have ever known. She knew who she was.
326. Women have a wonderful sense of right and wrong, but little sense of right and left.
327. When anyone says they often think something it means they've just thought of it now.
328. You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
329. My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just dont swallow it.
330. A leader should not get too far in front of his troops or he will be shot in the ass.
331. Cedric Hardwicke is my fifth favourite actor, the first four being the Marx Brothers.
332. Then, sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind.
333. Maybe an atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
334. No society in which eccentricity is a matter of reproach, can be in a wholesome state.
335. Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
336. On the day that God made Carl He didn't do anything else but sit around and feel good.
337. Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.
338. Bacchus was a convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
339. Napoleon ought never to be confused with Nelson, in spite of their hats being so alike.
340. When Moshe Dayan heard him play, he took the patch off his eye and put it over his ear.
341. Most of the geography of Scotland consists of mountains, grass, heather, and Edinburgh.
342. A true conservative is one who can't see any difference between radicalism and an idea.
343. Once upon a time money swore solemnly that nobody who did not love money should have it.
344. Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
345. The duchess thinking to have gotten God by the foot, when she had the devil by the tail.
346. It may surprise you to learn that Ernie Wise is part Italian. His wig comes from Venice.
347. Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
348. There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a really first-class miracle couldn't cure.
349. I don't feel eighty. In fact I don't feel anything till noon. Then it's time for my nap.
350. Americans are fighting to express themselves in a language they've never properly learnt.
351. You can't help respecting anybody who can spell Tuesday, even if he can't spell it right.
352. They say that drinking interferes with your sex life. I figure it's the other way around.
353. Marriage: a woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.
354. Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
355. I went on a diet, swore drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks.
356. I told his wife I'd never work again for an Oscar-winner who was shorter than the statue.
357. Most vegetarians I've ever seen looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
358. To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
359. When will this posthumus life of mine come to an end. I feel the flowers growing over me.
360. When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you've got to advertise.
361. Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
362. My wife's mother tells people I am effeminate. I don't mind because compared to her, I am.
363. I gave my beauty and youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
364. Marilyn Monroe was all woman. She had curves in places other woman don't even have places.
365. What do you want Benjamin? I want, I want, I want everything I've ever seen in the movies.
366. I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because He was dissapointed in the monkey.
367. I wouldn't tell the people anything until the war is over, and then I'd tell them who won.
368. There is no muse telling that fellow anything. It just goes in one head and out the other.
369. Is a right-angled triangle likely to have a square on its hypotenuse?…I mean in real life.
370. This is what it's all about: if you can't have fun at it, there's no sense hanging around.
371. I genuinely like myself, and have no reason to believe that my feeling is not reciprocated.
372. Have you ever noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin.
373. All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
374. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
375. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
376. The one thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
377. An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre-Dame - SMU football game and doesn't care who wins.
378. If the Lord would send me something interesting, I wouldn't mind if it was only a plaid pig.
379. Where there are PhDs in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
380. We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
381. No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
382. We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulation.'
383. If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
384. I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
385. Doubtless God could have made a better berry than the strawberry but doubtless God never did.
386. The Aberdeen terrier gave me an unpleasant look and said something under his breath in Gaelic.
387. I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
388. If she had made one more remark about Bergman, I would've knocked her other contact lense out.
389. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
390. When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness… I was right.
391. It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
392. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become a President; I'm beginning to believe it.
393. Joan Rivers: You've had a lot of lovers. Who was your best lover? - Joan Collins: Your husband.
394. On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
395. When a dog barks at the moon, it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism.
396. The only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my book.
397. It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
398. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
399. I everyone could choose where he was going to be born, some countries would be left quite empty.
400. A lot of Italians have played Indians. Well, some day, I'd like to see an Indian play an Italian.
401. Contest Announcement: First prize - one week in Cleveland. Second prize - two weeks in Cleveland.
402. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
403. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
404. This is the first convention of the space age - when a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
405. I didn't know the full facts of life until I was seventeen. My father never talked about his work.
406. Of course there's a different law for the rich and the poor; otherwise, who would go into business?
407. Gays grow up watching heterosexual movies and deciding whether they're Bette Davis or Paul Henreid.
408. He appeared to be some kind of inanimate object, like a large football or two tickets to the opera.
409. A genius! For thirty-seven years I've practised fourteen hours a day and now they call me a genius!
410. Ahelyett, hogy tovább szónókolnánk az amerikai álomról, figyeljünk inkább oda az amerikaiak álmaira.
411. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
412. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
413. I am ready to my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
414. Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
415. As a salesman I proved the truth of the old adage,"If at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again."
416. I'm frightened of eggs. Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is jellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.
417. Many married couples have learned that a joke can be the shortest distance between two points of view.
418. Telegram of employee during traffic crisis: Regret cannot come today; have not yet got home yesterday.
419. We send missionaires to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
420. At the first cup man drinks wine; at the second cup wine drinks wine; at hte third cup wine drinks man.
421. He pasted picture postcards around the goldfish bowl to make the goldfish think they were going places.
422. I want a man who only has to be kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a multi-millionaire?
423. Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breath, would die of asphyxia.
424. I did not say that this meat was tough. I just said I didn't see the horse that usually stands outside.
425. I'm not very good at it myself, but the first rule about spelling is that there is only one 'z' in 'is'.
426. If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
427. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
428. I always wore my football shirt the wrong way round. The opposition never knew if I was coming or going.
429. After four Martinis, my husband turns into a disgusting beast. And after the fifth I pass out altogether.
430. It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
431. My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.
432. Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.
433. Figures tell us that there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.
434. I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is growing crazy slowly.
435. If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln.
436. I housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.
437. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
438. Was she old? When they lit all of the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome with the heat.
439. The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to eight.
440. People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitue.
441. I could never understand how Joe Louis was the world champion when Bogart was the toughest guy in the world.
442. They found a will stipulating that he be cremated and his ashes scattered all over her best dining-room rug.
443. I am determined my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
444. Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
445. I want to tell a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked a girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'.
446. In this job, you have only two choices: you are either funny deliberately, or you are funny unintentionally.
447. I'm not a drinker. I had two Martinis on New Year's Eve and tried to hijack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.
448. If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
449. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
450. I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russel stark naked than with Ulysses S. Grant in full military regalia.
451. It goes far toward reconciling me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of marrying one.
452. Up to the time of going to press there is no final solution as to which religion the Almighty himself prefers.
453. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder a man he calls it ferocity.
454. My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
455. The primary purpose of liberal education is to make one's mind pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
456. Well Betjamen, if you're going to be my son-in-law you needn't go on calling me 'Sir'. Call me 'Field Marshal'.
457. Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
458. An essential cocomitant of civil disobedience is the actor's willingness to accept the punishment that follows.
459. Life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. Some of the funniest things I've ever heard were said at funerals.
460. My first car was painted red down one side and blue down the other to confuse witnesses in case of an accident.
461. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.
462. Aziz Ezzet, a gentleman of importance in Egypt, says his name can be pronounced by opening a soda bottle slowly.
463. One theory was that Bacon cribbed his essays from a notebook of Shakespeare's that he had picked up in a tavern.
464. If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God.
465. …a woman in this age is considered learned enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from that of another.
466. If anyone corrects your pronunciation of a word in a public place, you have every right to punch him in the nose.
467. He knitted a good deal to keep himself from smoking and he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.
468. He intented, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
469. When you can see those mountains over there, that means it's going to rain. When you can't see them, it's raining.
470. I love her, not for her breasts, her buttocks or her knees but for her mind. It is inscrutable. She is like a poem.
471. I'll never forget the night I brought my Oscar home and Tony took me one look at it and I knew my marriage was over.
472. If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted.
473. Ford, if you were placed naked in a room without furnishings, I could come back in an hour and find total confusion.
474. My father told me all about the birds and the bees. The liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
475. The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
476. If an economist becomes certain of the solution of any problem, he can be equally certain that his solution is wrong.
477. May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking" men - that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
478. When they tell me I have forsook the worship of my ancestors, I say I have had more ancestors heathen than Christian.
479. There are a large number of excellent restaurants in London. There is a particularly good one on the right hand side.
480. For many years I was quite sure that thunder was the sound of God moving his beer barrels across the floor of the sky.
481. If you could just be a nigger one Saturday night, you wouldn't never want to be a white man again as long as you live.
482. You can't expect the public to get excited about a film where the leading man's tits are bigger than the leader lady'y.
483. People are wrong when they say the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be.That's what' wrong with it.
484. The best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got just to know.
485. Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people. I said I would rather live on in my apartment.
486. She doesn't understand my writing and said last night that my 'Critique of Metaphysical Reality' reminded her of Airport.
487. The sun, the moon and stars would have dissapeard long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
488. Rembrant is not to be compared in the painting of character with our extraordinarily gifted English artist Mr Rippingille.
489. An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
490. I cannot learn languages; men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time than it takes me to buy a German dictionary.
491. You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
492. TO-DAY I am MAKing aN inno6$vation. as you mayalready have gessed, I am typling this article myself to save time and exBKVpense.
493. Recession is when your neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you loses yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
494. Our local congressman admits his opponent resembles Abraham Lincoln - if you can imagine a short, fat dishonest Abraham Lincoln.
495. Money: A good thing you have. It frees you from doing thigs you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
496. Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself is the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
497. I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but don't even do that anymore.
498. What provokes you to risibility, sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask the pardon of the rest of the company.
499. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less".
500. I was in hopes Lord Illingworth would have married Lady Kelso. But I believe he said her family was too large. Or was it her feet?
501. He looked at me as if I were some sort of unnecessary product which the cat had brought in after a rumble among the local ash-cans.
502. There's no question that the Woody Allen character that appears on the screen is a Greek god version of what he is like in real life.
503. Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
504. I do not know whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
505. He convinced his employer that the company could double its profits by merely unlocking the front door and allowing customers to come in.
506. Twenty-four years ago, Madam, I was incredibly handsome. In San Francisco, in rainy season, I was frequently mistaken for a cloudless day.
507. Of what question is the following the answer:"Washington Irving"? - The question is: Who was the first President of the United States, Max?
508. She looked like one of those potatoes that people photograph and send to the papers because it bears a curious resemblance to a human face.
509. Don't think. If you have, don't tell anyone. If you have, don't write it down. If you have, don't sign it. If you have, don't be surprised.
510. A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.
511. Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made in business, business is war.
512. Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
513. London is full of fogs - and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
514. I have been tempted to make a proposal to our Republican friends: that if they stop telling lies about us, we would stop telling the truth about them.
515. Nations talk about what they lack; America is talking about peace, Germany about unity, France about glory, Russia about freedom and India about food.
516. Even as a kid I alwats went for the women. When we went to see Snow White everyone fell in love with Snow White. I immediately fell for the wicked queen.
517. I can never remeber whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
518. It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by resort to mathemathics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
519. Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
520. It was a wild and stormy night on the west coast of Scotland. This, however, is immaterial to the present story, as the scene is not laid in the west of Scotland.
521. The English are the kindliest souls in the world, but if they see anything beautiful flying in the air or running along the ground, they rush for a gun and kill it.
522. I remeber looking at the clock. It was precisely four-fifteen. I'm quite certain of this, because our kitchen clock has not worked in twenty-one years and is always at the time.
523. Interviewer: You've probably been in more movies with Dean Martin than Jerry Lweis? - Shirley MacLaine: I've probably been in more movies with Dean Martin than even Dean Martin has.
524. It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "Try to be a little kinder".
525. Winston would go up to his creator and say that he would very much like to see his Son, about whom he had heard a great deal and, if possible, would to call on the Holy Gost. Winston loves meeting people.
526. Alf Todd has about as much chance of winning the heavy-weigh championship, as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild-cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.
527. I must point out that my rule of life prescribes as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
528. Two goldfish were swimming around and around in a glass bowl. One announced crankly that he had become an atheist. "Fine, fine," scoffed the other. "Now just explain to me who changes the water in this bowl!"
529. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.
530. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
531. Certainly the progress of science is a wonderful thing. One can't help being proud of it. As for the linotype and the aeroplane and the vacuum house-cleaner, well, I'm not sure that I didn't invent them myself.
532. An amateur thinks it's funny if you dress a man up as an old lady, put him in a wheelchair, and give the wheelchair a push that sends it spinning down a slope towards a stone wall. For a pro, it's got to be a real old lady.
533. If all mankind minus one were of the same opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind.
534. The Earle of Oxford, making his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and he went to Travell, 7 years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home, say'd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.
535. Do you know how they are going to decide the Shakespeare-Bacon dispute? They are going to dig up Shakespeare and dig up Beacon; they are going set their coffin side by side, and they are going to get Tree to recite 'Hamlet' and the one who turns in his coffin will be the author of the play.

 

1.  I wish I knew.
2. I wish I could fly.
3. I wish I were taller.
4. I wish I was younger.
5. I wish you were here.
6. I wish I wasn’t so old.
7. I wish I were a doctor.
8. I wish she came earlier.
9. He wishes he could dance.
10. I wish she didn’t go home.
11. I wish I was in Australia.
12. I wish I had been younger.
13. I wish my dog had a puppy.
14. I wish he were on holiday.
15. If only we knew what to do.
16. I wish he would save money.
17. I wish he could save money.
18. I wish I hadn't married him.
19. I wish she had come earlier.
20. I wish I were a millionaire!
21. I wish him the best of luck.
22. If only he would save money.
23. I wish it would stop raining.
24. I wish to attend the meeting.
25. I wish you would stop yelling.
26. I wish my dog had had a puppy.
27. I wish you would stop talking.
28. I wish I would be in Australia.
29. If only I travelled to New York.
30. I wish I were going on holiday.
31. I wish they would stop arguing.
32. If only the sun would come out!
33. She wishes she had a nice voice.
34. I wish this car would go faster.
35. I wish she would shut up at last!
36. If only I had bought an umbrella.
37. I wish I hadn't eaten the prawns.
38. I wish I could tell her about it.
39. I wish I lived in the countryside.
40. I wish taxi drivers wouldn't cheat.
41. I wish you had come to our wedding.
42. I wish I lived closer to my family.
43. I wish you didn't live so far away.
44. I wish I could use a computer well.
45. He wishes he could afford a holiday.
46. I wish I had talked to him yesterday.
47. If only I was going on holiday with you!
48. I wish I hadn’t shouted at Ann yesterday.
49. I wish I was taller = (I’m not very tall)
50. If only you were here. (= but you re not)
51. Don't you wish you had gone to university?
52. I wish I knew the answer. (= I don’t know)
53. I wish I was going with you = (but I'm not)
54. If only I had more money! (= but I haven't)
55. I need help badly. If only you could help me.
56. I wish I had known you then. (= but I didn't)
57. If only you could be here! (= but you're not)
58. If only I'd listened to you! (=but I didn't )
59. I wish I was /were going with you. (= I'm not)
60. I wish I could give you an answer. (= I can't)
61. I wish she could have come. (= but she didn't)
62. If only I'd studied harder when I was at school.
63. I wish I was /were better at sports. (= I'm not)
64. I wish I hadn't taken your advice. (= but I did)
65. If only you would listen when I'm talking to you!
66. That guy is so annoying! I wish he'd stop talking.
67. To many people, I wish I were sounds more correct:
68. I wish I could have explained. (= I wasn't able to)
69. He didn't pass the exam. If only he had worked hard.
70. I wish you wouldn't borrow my clothes without asking.
71. I wish I was more patient.= If only I was more patient.
72. She was absent. I wish she had attended the conference.
73. My old car often breaks down. I wish I bought a new car.
74. I wish they wouldn't park their car in front of my house.
75. I wish it would rain. The garden really needs some water.
76. I wish you would be quiet. (= Your talking irritates me.)
77. If only he could have explained! (=but he wasn't able to)
78. What a beautiful house! I wish I had a house like this one.
79. She wishes he'd work less. They never spend any time together.
80. I wish I could ride a bicycle.= If only I could ride a bicycle.
81. Alice didn't get a good grade. She wishes she had worked harder
82. If only she had seen the doctor earlier. He could have saved her.
83. If only I didn't have a headache, I would/could go to the party tonight.
84. I like traveling around the world. If only I had time to realize my dream.
85. I wish he would study for his exams.= If only he would study for his exams.
86. If only I had woken up early. (I didn't wake up early and I missed my bus.)
87. We saw the film. I wish you had seen it with us. It was an amazing evening.
88. I wish I'd taken the train; I would have arrived at the destination by now.
89. If only I'd taken the train, I would have arrived at the destination by now.
90. They wish they hadn't eaten so much chocolate. They're feeling very sick now.
91. I am sorry I don’t know how to use the computer.If only I knew how to use it.
92. If only I hadn't eaten the prawns. I regret that I ate the prawns in the past.
93. Tom likes football very much. He wishes he became a professional football player.
94. We use wish with could to express a wish for a present situation to be different:
95. She's keen on computers. She wishes she studied computer science next school year.
96. I wish you were more help. = (you are not) I wish I were can replace I wish I was.
97. He was running very fast when he had a heart attack. If only he hadn't run so fast.
98. I wish I was / were rich. I would buy a farm and enjoy the calm of the countryside.
99. I stayed late at work and missed the last bus. I wish I had not stayed at work late.
100. If only I hadn't lost her phone number. She must think I'm so rude for not calling her.
101. They had that bad accident because they were careless. If only they had been more careful.
102. If only he were on holiday. He is not on holiday so this is an impossible desire in the present.
103. If only I lived in the countryside. I don’t live in the countryside in the present so this desire is impossible.
104. If only I were going on holiday. I am not going on holiday so this desire is impossible in the present or future.
105. If only I knew how to use a computer. (I don’t know how to use a computer and I would like to learn how to use it)
106. I wish you wouldn't arrive so late all the time (I'm annoyed because you always come late and I want you to arrive on time)
107. The real situation and result: I did not take the train and I have not arrived at the destination so this is an imagined result in the past.
108. If only he could save money. I do not believe that he can/will save money, so this is an impossible desire about his ability in the present to save money.
109. I wish I didn't have a headache, then I would/could go to the party tonight. The real situation and result: I do have a headache so the desired intention/ability in the present to go to the party is an imagined result.

1. Hold this, will you?
2. I'm clever, aren't I?
3. He can help, can't he?
4. We aren't late, are we?
5. You can ski, can’t you?
6. You can swim, can’t you?
7. She's Italian, isn't she?
8. I’m allowed in, aren’t I?
9. She will come, won’t she?
10. I’m not allowed in, am I?
11. You can’t drive, can you?
12. She won’t come, will she?
13. We were right, weren’t we?
14. We weren’t right, were we?
15. John must stay, mustn't he?
16. You’re Spanish, aren’t you?
17. I’m a little red, aren’t I?
18. Close the window, will you?
19. Nobody lives here, do they?
20. She is Canadian, isn’t she?
21. She isn’t Canadian, is she?
22. The bus isn't coming, is it?
23. You’re not Spanish, are you?
24. He studies hard, doesn't he?
25. We'd been working, hadn't we?
26. You live in Spain, don’t you?
27. Nothing bad happened, did it?
28. I should go now, shouldn’t I?
29. I shouldn’t go now, should I?
30. You play football, don't you?
31. She'll come at six, won't she?
32. They won't be late, will they?
33. Let’s have a coffee, shall we?
34. Nothing ever happens, does it?
35. Nobody asked for me, did they?
36. You have a Ferrari, don’t you?
37. You weren't sleeping, were you?
38. They live in London, don't they?
39. She can't speak Arabic, can she?
40. This meal is horrible, isn’t it?
41. Let’s go to the beach, shall we?
42. You’ve never liked me, have you?
43. You always work late, don’t you?
44. She drove back home, didn’t she?
45. I explained the rules, didn’t I?
46. John doesn't like milk, does he?
47. The Queen's over 90, isn't she ?
48. It was cold yesterday, wasn't it?
49. She had a great time, didn’t she?
50. You’re moving to Brazil, are you?
51. You’re from Scotland, aren’t you?
52. They’ve drunk beer, haven’t they?
53. They went yesterday, didn't they?
54. John is not an accountant, is he?
55. We're working tomorrow, aren't we?
56. You hadn't been sleeping, had you?
57. You won’t go without me, will you?
58. I’m sitting next to you, aren’t I?
59. You used to work here, didn’t you?
60. I didn’t explain the rules, did I?
61. Kevin will come tonight, won't he?
62. She has been swimming, hasn't she?
63. He can sing quite well, can't he ?
64. They mustn't come early, must they?
65. That film was fantastic, wasn’t it?
66. That film was fantastic, wasn’t it?
67. They haven’t drunk beer, have they?
68. You don’t always work late, do you?
69. They've been to Japan, haven't they?
70. You want to come with me, don’t you?
71. Nobody lives in this house, do they?
72. This place is really nice, isn’t it?
73. She didn’t drive back home, did she?
74. They'll be arriving soon, won't they?
75. He used to have long hair, didn’t he?
76. He wouldn’t like to travel, would he?
77. She wasn't at home yesterday, was she?
78. He won't be studying tonight, will he?
79. She is collecting stickers, isn't she?
80. He had forgotten his wallet, hadn't he?
81. She hasn't eaten all the cake, has she?
82. John and Max don't like maths, do they?
83. She doesn't have any children, does she?
84. We hadn't been to London before, had we?
85. The meeting’s tomorrow at 9am, isn’t it?
86. You have cleaned your bike, haven't you?
87. He was on the team last year, wasn't he?
88. She hasn't been playing tennis, has she?
89. They didn't go out last Sunday, did they?
90. You don’t know where the boss is, do you?
91. You don’t know where the boss is, do you?
92. You went to school in London, didn't you?
93. He said you were very clever, didn't he ?
94. Years ago, we could run fast, couldn’t we?
95. Years ago, we couldn’t run fast, could we?
96. We should have left earlier, shouldn't we?
97. That man is reading a good book, isn't he?
98. He went to the party last night, didn't he?
99. He went to the party last night, didn't he?
100. We were waiting at the station, weren't we?
101. He usually sleeps on his couch, doesn’t he?
102. Peter played handball yesterday, didn't he?
103. It's good, isn't it / It's good, is it not?
104. She'll have been cooking all day, won't she?
105. He could have bought a new car, couldn't he?
106. That lady is reading a good book, isn't she?
107. We often watch TV in the afternoon, don't we?
108. They are going home from school, aren't they?
109. They didn't go to London last week, did they?
110. People who eat too much get fat, don't they ?
111. They'll have finished before nine, won't they?
112. She won't have left work before six, will she?
113. He’d (= he would) like to travel, wouldn’t he?
114. The students couldn't do the test, could they?
115. This one looks rather interesting, doesn't it.
116. She's been studying a lot recently, hasn't she?
117. He hasn't been running in this weather, has he?
118. He won't have been travelling all day, will he?
119. He doesn’t usually sleep on his couch, does he?
120. The kids hadn't had anything to eat, had they ?
121. You can't come to the concert tonight, can you?
122. They can't have had to stop already, can they ?
123. Mary didn't do her homework last Monday, did she?
124. The secretary didn't like the new boss, did she ?
125. Those new shoes look very expensive, don't they ?
126. You remembered all the instructions, didn't you ?
127. You like rock music, don't you? (NOT liken't you?)
128. You did remember to turn off the gas, didn't you ?
129. It's a lovely day, isn't it? (I want you to agree.)
130. Those new shoes weren't very expensive, were they ?
131. The students really have to work hard, don't they ?
132. The Queen lives in Buckingham Palace, doesn't she ?
133. We shouldn't continue without the guide, should we ?
134. You don't like classical music, do you? NOT like you?
135. You've remembered all the instructions, haven't you ?
136. You couldn't understand anything he said, could you ?
137. Those students have passed their exams, haven't they ?
138. He might have had to buy a new computer, mightn't he ?
139. They didn't think it was particularly easy, did they ?
140. Those students haven't passed their exams, have they ?
141. You really ought to get permission first, oughtn't you?
142. You're a mechanic, aren't you? (I want help with my car.)
143. You should have been paying more attention, shouldn't you ?
144. The judge believes that the accused is innocent, doesn't he ?
145. You don't think there's anything wrong with my idea, do you ?
146. The Queen might have been in Buckingham Palace, mightn't she ?
147. You were telling us about what you did in New York, weren't you ?
148. They're very late, aren't they / They're very late, are they not?
149. They could have lost all their money in Las Vegas, couldn't they ?
150. He ought to have been able to answer all the questions, oughtn't he?
151. It looks like we ought to be getting out of here quickly, doesn't it ?
152. You've seen the exhibition, haven't you / You've seen the exhibition, have you not?
153. You don't play football, do you? (I have just learnt that you play football, but this surprises me).
154. Those students have passed their exams, have they ? (Have those students really passed their exams? That's surprising.
155. That lady is reading a good book, is she? (Is that lady actually reading a good book ?; I am really questioning whether that is a good book; I don't think it is.)

ANGOL KÖZÉPSZINTŰ ÉRETTSÉGI HANGANYAGOK-&-ÁTIRATOK

https://www.oktatas.hu/kozneveles/erettsegi/feladatsorok

 

2005. május

k_angol_fl.mp3

k_angolatirat_fl.pdf

 

2005.november

k_angol_05_fl.mp3

k_angol_05nov_ut.pdf

 

2006. február

k_angol_06febr_fl.mp3

k_angol_06febr_ut.pdf

 

2006. május

k_angol_06maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_06maj_ut.pdf

 

2006. október

k_angol_06okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_06okt_ut.pdf

 

2007. május

k_angol_07maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_07maj_ut.pdf

 

2007. október

k_angol_07okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_07okt_ut.pdf

 

2008. május 8

k_angol_08maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_08maj_ut.pdf

 

2008. október

k_angol_08okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_08okt_ut.pdf

 

2009. október

k_angol_09okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_09okt_ut.pdf

 

2010. május

k_angol_10maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_10maj_ut.pdf

 

2010. október

k_angol_10okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_10okt_ut.pdf

 

2011. május

k_angol_11maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_11maj_ut.pdf

 

2011. október

k_angol_11okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_11okt_ut.pdf

 

2012. május

k_angol_12maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_12maj_ut.pdf

 

2012. október

k_angol_12okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_12okt_ut.pdf

 

2013.május

k_angol_13maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_13maj_ut.pdf

 

2013.október

k_angol_13okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_13okt_ut.pdf

 

2014.május

k_angol_14maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_14maj_ut.pdf

 

2014.október

k_angol_14okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_14okt_ut.pdf

 

2015.május

k_angol_15maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_15maj_ut.pdf

 

2015.október

k_angol_15okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_15okt_ut.pdf

 

2016.május

k_angol_16maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_16maj_ut.pdf

 

2016.október

k_angol_16okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_16okt_ut.pdf

 

2017.május

k_angol_17maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_17maj_ut.pdf

 

2017.október

k_angol_17okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_17okt_ut.pdf

 

2018.május

k_angol_18maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_18maj_ut.pdf

 

2018.október

k_angol_18okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_18okt_ut.pdf

 

2019.május

k_angol_19maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_19maj_ut.pdf

 

2019.október

k_angol_19okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_19okt_ut.pdf

 

2020.május

k_angol_20maj_fl.mp3

k_angol_20maj_ut.pdf

 

2020.október

k_angol_20okt_fl.mp3

k_angol_20okt_ut.pdf

 

 

1. I don't care WHAT happened.
2. This is the house which Jack built.
3. I can't believe WHAT you are saying.
4. My mother, who is 86, lives in Paris.
5. She has a son who / that is a doctor.
6. I like the woman who lives next door.
7. He is the man WHO/THAT abuses his wife.
8. I can't read WHAT is written down here.
9. This is a machine WHICH washes clothes.
10. Did you find the money (which) you lost?
11. This is the church WHERE we got married.
12. Could you tell me WHAT is going on here?
13. The man who / that phoned is my brother.
14. A doctor is someone WHO cures ill people.
15. I can't hear WHAT they are talking about.
16. The girl WHO lives next door is my friend.
17. Everything (THAT/WHICH) I saw was horrible.
18. Do you understand WHAT he is singing about?
19. The bike (which / that) I loved was stolen.
20. Have you got someone/anyone to quarrel with?
21. We had fish and chips, which I always enjoy.
22. Do you know the girl (who/m) he's talking to?
23. Who's that man (who is) standing by the gate?
24. I won't eat in a restaurant whose cooks smoke. (... the cooks of which/=restaurant/ smoke.)
25. Lord Thompson, who is 76, has just retired.
26. Yesterday was a day when everything went wrong!
27. The party was fun, which I didn’t expect at all.
28. Do you know the man (WHO/THAT) Mary works with? (... with who/m Mary works?)
29. My boss, who is very nice, lives in Manchester.
30. The man who stole my backpack has been arrested.
31. Where's the pencil (which) I gave you yesterday?
32. This is the girl WHOSE dog bit me the other day.
33. That's the house WHOSE windows overlook the sea.
34. We bought a house which / that is 200 years old.
35. She loves the chocolate (which / that) I bought.
36. I can't find the girl/woman/boy/man I danced with
37. I met your friend WHOSE father is a famous actor.
38. This is the plane (WHICH/THAT) my mother boarded.
39. I live in London, which has some fantastic parks.
40. The camera which / that costs £100 is over there.
41. The weather that we had this summer was beautiful.
42. This is a thing WHICH you use to call your mother.
43. The university (which / that) she likes is famous.
44. I've just come back from London, where John lives..
45. Can I have the pencil that I gave you this morning?
46. My sister, who I live with, knows a lot about cars.
47. I asked the priest standing there what the time was.
48. This is Robert, from whose car the alarm was stolen.
49. I want to live in a place where there is lots to do.
50. She has three brothers, two of whom are in the army.
51. I am the woman (WHO/THAT) you have been waiting for.
52. He left immediately, which was not surprising at all.
53. He had thousands of books, most of which he had read.
54. A notebook is a computer which can be carried around.
55. I devoted all the time (THAT/WHICH) I had to my dogs.
56. These are the shoes (WHICH/THAT/-) she usually wears.
57. The house which / that belongs to Julie is in London.
58. My mother's house, which I grew up in, is very small.
59. This is the gentleman whom all of us wish to nominate.
60. She's studying to become a doctor, which is difficult.
61. Do you know the girl who started in grade 7 last week?
62. This is the dress (WHICH/THAT) she wore yesterday too.
63. The woman who visited me in the hospital was very kind.
64. The umbrella that I bought last week is already broken.
65. I sent a letter which / that arrived three weeks later.
66. We went to the village (which / that) Lucy recommended.
67. The woman (who / that) my brother loves is from Mexico.
68. I've broken the Japanese vase THAT stood on the cabinet.
69. I didn't like that girl (that) you brought to the party.
70. I didn't know the uncle that I inherited the money from.
71. John met a woman (who / that) I had been to school with.
72. The police arrested a man (who / that) Jill worked with.
73. What I really liked about it was the end of the third act
74. He picked up a handful of stones, one of which was sharp.
75. Sammy passed his English test, WHICH didn’t surprise me.
76. The girl (WHO/THAT) I was looking FOR had left for Spain.
77. The hotel WHERE we stayed was very comfortable and clean.
78. The photographer called to the Queen, who looked annoyed.
79. Will there be anything to give them to drink if they come?
80. John's mother, who lives in Scotland, has 6 grandchildren.
81. He was carrying his belongings, many of which were broken.
82. What's the name of the girl who won the tennis tournament?
83. Last week I bought a new computer, which I don't like now.
84. I haven't read any of the books (that) I got for Christmas.
85. I met Rebecca in town yesterday, which was a nice surprise.
86. This is an object (WHICH/THAT/-) you can cut yourself with.
87. The people who / that live on the island are very friendly.
88. Yesterday I called our friend Julie, who lives in New York.
89. I asked the priest who was standing there what the time was.
90. We saw the animals again, some of which were already asleep.
91. We stopped at the museum, which we had never visited before.
92. She was wearing a dress (which was) covered in blue flowers.
93. I read three books last week, one of which I really enjoyed.
94. Mary works for an agency THAT/WHICH sells foreign holidays.
95. There are 14 girls in my class, a few of whom are my friends.
96. I hate the dog. The dog bit me. - I hate the dog that bit me.
97. Chris did really well in his exams, which is quite a surprise.
98. Will there be anything you can give them to drink if they come?
99. The farmer, whose name was Fred, sold us 10 pounds of potatoes.
100. In the summer I'm going to visit Italy, where my brother lives.
101. I'm looking for a secretary who / that can use a computer well.
102. The doctor (who / that) my grandmother liked lives in New York.
103. He knew the answer to my question, which puzzled so many people.
104. My grandmother, who is dead now, came from the North of England.
105. Do you know the book (WHICH/THAT) I was talking ABOUT yesterday?
106. Is there/ Have you got someone/anyone (that) you can quarrel with?
107. He knew the answer to my question that had puzzled so many people.
108. The family (that is) living in the next house comes from Slovenia.
109. I had an uncle in Germany, from who(m) I inherited a bit of money.
110. I had an uncle in Germany, who(m) I inherited a bit of money from.
111. Yesterday I met a woman named Susan, whose husband works in London.
112. I am moving to Louisville, KY. It is home to the Muhammad Ali Museum.
113. The tourist WHOSE suitcases were stolen had to buy some new clothes.
114. My bicycle, which I've had for more than ten years, is falling apart.
115. Have you got somewhere/a place (that/where) you can go at the weekend?
116. Most of the parents (who were) invited to the conference did not come.
117. Anyone WHO wants to take part in the competition must fill in a form.
118. I really love the new Chinese restaurant, which we went to last night.
119. This is an object WHICH/THAT/- we/you use to clean your our/your teeth.
120. I spent hours talking with a person last night. I hope to hear from her.
121. I am moving to Louisville, KY, which is home to the Muhammad Ali Museum.
122. This is the house which Jack built. - This is the house that Jack built.
123. I have a friend whose wife is English and another whose wife is American.
124. I'll have eight sons, none of whom will hopefully die for their homeland.
125. My friends were all hiding in my apartment, which isn't what I'd expected.
126. Einstein, who was born in Germany, is famous for his theory of relativity.
127. Anyone (that is) caught writing on the walls will be expelled from school.
128. There were some good programmes on the radio, none of which I listened to.
129. The school provides free internet connection for students WHO use laptops.
130. The patient is now able to describe the accident which she has experienced.
131. I like articles THAT/WHICH talk about true stories or other people’s life.
132. There were a lot of people at the party, many of whom I had known for years.
133. I like the bike that my father gave me. - I like the bike my father gave me.
134. I bought a new car. It is very fast. → I bought a new car that is very fast.
135. My ESL teacher, who came to Germany in 1986, likes to ride his mountain bike.
136. Neil Armstrong, who was born in 1930, was the first man to stand on the moon.
137. What was the name of the teacher WHO taught you history at secondary school?
138. People are lucky. People win the lottery. - People who win the lottery are lucky.
139. Thanks God we took a GPS to Italy, WHICH we wouldn’t have found our hote WITHOUT.
140. This is the Ford whose alarm was stolen yesterday. = ...Ford the alarm of which...
141. Elephants, which are the largest land mammals, live in herds of 10 or more adults.
142. Thanks God we took a GPS to Italy, WITHOUT WHICH we wouldn’t have found our hotel.
143. Mrs Smith, WHO I attended the meeting WITH, is a very professional business woman.
144. Did you understand WHAT I’m saying? - Did you understand THE THING THAT I’m saying?
145. Mrs Smith, WITH WHOM I attended the meeting, is a very professional business woman.
146. My grandmother on my father's side, WHO has just turned 85, still loves rock music.
147. I like the person. The person was nice to me. - I like the person who was nice to me.
148. I like the bike. My father gave me the bike. - I like the bike that my father gave me.
149. I found the coat WHICH/THAT I lost in December. - I found the coat I lost in December.
150. I hope I hear from the person with whom I spent hours talking last night. (more formal)
151. The author, who graduated from the same university I did, gave a wonderful presentation.
152. My mother's company, which makes mobile phones, is moving soon from Frankfurt to London.
153. I hope to hear from the person whom I spent hours talking with last night. (less formal)
154. My friend John, who went to the same school as me, has just written a best-selling novel.
155. The house belongs to me. Its roof is very old. → The house whose roof is old belongs to me.
156. The boy, whose parents both work as teachers at the school, started a fire in the classroom.
157. He always leaves the full ashtray in the middle of the dining table, WHICH really annoys me.
158. Students who study hard will do well in my class. (Only this group of students will do well.)
159. London, WHOSE underground is called the "tube", is one of the most expensive cities in Europe.
160. She lives in New York. She likes living in New York. → She lives in New York, which she likes.
161. Students whose grades are low can drop one test score. (Only this group can drop a test score.)
162. The woman is coming tonight. Her car is a BMW. → The woman whose car is a BMW is coming tonight.
163. I visited the city. John comes from the city.→ I visited the city (that / which) John comes from.
164. He gave me the letter, which I read immediately. (non-defining clause: There was only one letter.)
165. The heavy rain, which was unusual for the time of year, destroyed most of the plants in my garden.
166. The music is good. Julie listens to the music. → The music (which / that) Julie listens to is good.
167. The country is very hot. He went to the country. → The country (which / that) he went to is very hot.
168. The job is well paid. She applied for the job. → The job (which / that) she applied for is well paid.
169. A person is lucky. She wins the lottery every year. - A person who wins the lottery every year is lucky.
170. This is the gentleman in whom we have confidence. (Köznapi, beszélt stílusban: ...man we have confidence in)
171. This is George, whose brother went to school with me. - This is George, whom you met at our house last year.
172. The little girl is sad. The little girl's / her doll was lost. → The little girl whose doll was lost is sad.
173. I like the paintings that hang in the SASB North lobby. I like the paintings hanging in the SASB North lobby.
174. Do you remember the place where we caught the train?Stratford-upon-Avon is the town where Shakespeare was born.
175. She made several remarks, which were absolutely useless. She made several remarks which were absolutely useless.
176. My brother met a woman. I used to work with the woman. → My brother met a woman (who / that) I used to work with.
177. The dog is over there. The dog's / its owner lives next door. → The dog whose owner lives next door is over there.
178. Brad Pitt, WHO is Angelina Jolie's husband, played the role of Mrs. Smith's husband in the movie 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith'.
179. This is the guy whose Ford was stolen twice within one week. This is Robert, whose Ford was stolen twice within one week.
180. He gave me the letter, which was in a blue envelope. (non-defining clause: There was only one letter, it happened to be blue.)
181. Homelessness is a problem. The problem needs to be addressed. - Homelessness is a problem that needs to be addressed. (singular problem)
182. I am moving to Louisville, KY, which is home to the Muhammad Ali Museum. - I am moving to Louisville, KY, home to the Muhammad Ali Museum.
183. England won the World Cup in 1966. It was the year when we got married. - England won the World Cup in 1966. It was the year we got married.
184. Mrs Lee is now able to describe the accident from which she has recovered. (Köznapi, beszélt stílusban: ...the accident she's recovered from)
185. My mother, who is an excellent cook, is thinking of opening a restaurant. - My mother, an excellent cook, is thinking of opening a restaurant.
186. Mum, who knows little about art, has just realized she's a millionaire. - Mum (who knows little about art) has just realized she's a millionaire
187. This is Robert's Ford, whose alarm was stolen yesterday. = ...Ford, the alarm of which... - This the Ford of which the alarm was stolen yesterday.
188. I remember my twentieth birthday. It was the day when the tsunami happened. - I remember my twentieth birthday. It was the day the tsunami happened.
189. Marie Curie is the woman that discovered radium. - Marie Curie is the woman who discovered radium. - Marie Curie is the woman that discovered radium.
190. My mother is thinking of opening a restaurant. My mother is an excellent cook. My mother, who is an excellent cook, is thinking of opening a restaurant.
191. Many problems need to be addressed. Homelessness is one of the problems. - Homelessness is one of the problems that need to be addressed. (plural problems)
192. I live in a city. I study in the city. → I live in the city where I study. → I live in the city that / which I study in. → I live in the city in which I study.
193. The paintings hang in the SASB North lobby. - I like the paintings that hang in the SASB North lobby. - I like the paintings which hang in the SASB North lobby.
194. This is George’s brother, with whom I went to school. - This is George, who you met at our house last year. - This is George’s brother, who I went to school with.
195. Stratford-on-Avon, which many people have written about, is Shakespeare's birthplace. Stratford-on-Avon, about which many people have written, is Shakespeare's birthplace.
196. We bought a chainsaw, which we cut all the wood up with. - We bought a chainsaw, with which we cut up all the wood. - We can't find the chainsaw that we cut all the wood up with.
197. He gave me the letter which/that was in a blue envelope. (defining clause: There were several letters of different colors and he gave me the blue one. Which may be replaced by that.)
198. I’m planning to grow roses. I find roses quite beautiful. - I’m planning to grow roses, which I find quite beautiful. - (not okay) I’m planning to grow roses, that I find quite beautiful.
199. The boy I saw on the beach is my colleague. - The boy who I saw on the beach is my colleague. - The boy whom I saw on the beach is my colleague. - The boy I saw on the beach is my colleague.
200. I’m driving across the country with three small children. - Driving across the country with three small children is going to be stressful. - I’m driving across the country with three small children, which is going to be stressful.
201. The bar in Barcelona is still there. I met my wife in that bar. → The bar in Barcelona where I met my wife is still there. → The bar in Barcelona that / which I met my wife in is still there. → The bar in Barcelona in which I met my wife is still there.
202. The summer was long and hot. I graduated from university in the summer. → The summer when I graduated from university was long and hot. → The summer that / which I graduated from university in was long and hot. → The summer in which I graduated was long and hot.

– 7. óra –

 

1. „It’s a hard day’s night.”
2. I’m older than 30. = I’m over thirty.
3. It’s blood on his face. (blood = vér, bleed = vérzik)
4. Where is the 5th door? = Where is door 5?
5. They live at door 4, floor 3.
6. I work from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m..
7. The shop opens at 8.
8. The shop is open till 8.
9. Please, draw me your house.
10. I draw on drawing paper.
11. I never eat in the bedroom.
12. Can I pay by card?
13. Today is pay-day!
14. I write with a pen.
15. I cook with a cooker.
16. I eat with a spoon.
17. I cut bread with a knife.
18. I always work on Monday. (mindig)
19. He usually comes home at 5. (rendszerint)
20. We often go for a walk. (gyakran)
21. I am sometimes late, but not too often. (néha)
22. They occasionally meet. (alkalmanként)
23. I rarely have luch at home. (ritkán)
24. He hardly ever has time. (szinte soha; alig valamikor)
25. I never eat bread and fat. (soha)
26. I get at 8 every day.
27. I work more than forty (=40) hours every week.
28. I visit my friends every month.
29. I swim a lot every summer.
30. I eat fruit every morning.
31. I am happy every Monday.
32. I usually phone Ann. Often after lunch.
33. The plane is taking off.
34. The spoon and the knife are clean.
35. Clean the dirty spoons.
36. In my free time I often listen to music, go for a walk, watch TV or read book.
37. When I meet my friends, we often go to the cinema.
38. Let’s see a film, but first let’s cook something special!
39. I need the remote controll.
40. The traffic-lights are bad – they don’t work.
41. I am late, because of the heavy traffic.
42. Mother controlls the family.
43. Harrison Ford is a great actor; his daughter is not an actress.
44. Cab you see the waiter or the waitress? I want to order!
45. Give me water! ≈ Bring me water!
46. Here is a letter for you.
47. There are leaves on the pavement.
48. Write your name ont he envelope with CAPITAL LETTER.
49. Please, send me a letter or an email or a message!
50. I eat pasta with meat.
51. I eat a sandwich with ham.
52. I eat cucumber with salt.
53. I eat icecream with cream.
54. I eat fish with chips.
55. I’ve got a lot of work.
56. At Christmas I usually buy a lot of presents (/gifts).
57. My son is very talented (/clever).
58. I’m wearing a grey shirt, blue jeans.
59. She is wearing a black skirt and a brown cardigan.
60. The doctor cures ill people.
61. The teacher teaches pupils.
62. The singer sings songs.
63. The cook cooks meals.
64. The nurse looks after ill people.
65. The cleaner cleans rooms.
66. If it rains, put on your cap!
67. If it is hot, take off your coat!
68. Listen to me, please!
69. Look at that picture!
70. I get up at 7. - Get up! It’s 7!
71. Sit down, if you like.
72. Stand up when the boss comes.
73. Don’t get off the train! It is a stop, not a railway station! (leszáll)
74. It often snows in winter.
75. The sun often shines in summer.
76. It often blows in spring.
77. My mother watches a lot of TV.
78. My son reads a lot of books.
79. Bananas are yellow.
80. Peas are green.
81. Potatoes are brown.
82. I’m turning back.
83. Ice turns into water in a hot room. (átalakul vmivé)
84. The office of the Red Cross is at the zebra crossing.
85. Where is the bookshop? – It’s across the road.
86. When you are at the corner, cross the road. (sarok)
87. I’ve run out of time.
88. I can’t buy this – I’ve run out of money.
89. I can’t help him more – I’ve run out of patience.
90. I can’t solve this problem – I’ve run out of ideas.
91. I drink coffee with milk – I’ve run out of sugar.
92. My mother works a lot – she runs the kitchen at home, and she runs a small shop, too. (működtet, vezet)
93. The dog is running round the the tree.
94. There is a fence round the garden. (kerítés)
95. The group goes across the road.
96. I want to pass the exam – so I must learn a lot. (átmegy vizsgán)
97. The ball is under the table.
98. I live at 4, Summer Street. (hászám alatt)
99. I was happy during my holiday. (vmi ideje alatt)
100. I am ready in an hour. (vmennyi idő alatt)
101. The lamp is over the table.
102. The ball is flying over the fence.
103. The plane is flying over the mountains.

 

– 8. óra –

 

1. at the airport – a reptéren

- Where are you?

- I am at the airport.

2.

- Are you American?

- I am not American. I’m Hungarian.

3. hurt – fáj, fájdalmat okoz

- My arm hurts.

- What’s the problem (with it)?

- I don’t know.

4. (How old are you?)

- How ol is your baby?

- He/She is one (year old).

5. (How much is it?); this – ez, that – az

- How much is that bag?

- This here?

- Yes. I like it very much.

- Yes, that is nice. It isn’t expensive. It’s cheap.

My son has a ball in his room. (a/z ő/ szobájában)

7.

This is the bathroom. It is big, nice and new. Do you like it? (Tetszik?)

8. lusta – lazy; tired - fáradt

- Why do you eat in your bedroom?

- I am lazy. I am tired.

- It’s not good.

9. whose? – kié?

- Whose is this bicycle?

- This / It is not my bicycle. I have no bicycle. = I don’t have a bicycle.

10. try (on) – (fel)próbál; too – túl(ságos/an); those – azok

- I like those shoes.

- Try them on. … Are they good?

- No. Too big.

11.

- What is your favourite animal?

- I like birds.

12. WH? + do/does + Alany + ige + … ?

- What do you do on your birthday?

- I don’t work. I have a (birthday) party. I sleep a lot / much. I meet my friends. I have fun.

13. will – fog _-ni; wedding - esküvő

- I need black shoes.

- Why?

- I will go to a wedding.

14.

The sea is blue.

15. WH? + do/does/is(stb.) + Alany + ige + … ?; that – az a, azt a -t

- Which book do you want?

- That there. Is it expensive?

- Yes. Books are expensive.

16.

- Who is that boy? Is he your friend?

- No. I don’t know him. (tud/ismer; őt)

17. at home – otthon

I don’t have bread at home.

18. by + jármű = (jármű)-vel; a.m.=d.e., p.m.=d.u.; at_=(óra)-kor

- I will go to Szeged today.

- When?

- In the afternoon.

- What time?

- At 5 p.m. (d.u.)

- How? (= How will you go?)

- By bus.

19. bread and butter – vajas kenyér; want to do – akar –ni

- I want to eat bread and butter. Do you have butter?

- I’m sorra. I don’t have butter.

21.

My camera is bad. I want to buy a new camera.

22. drive a car – autót vezet

- Can you drive a car?

- Yes. I have a car. I drive every day.

23. My children love cartoons.
24. our ___ = a mi ___-nk

Our cat is old but happy.

25.

- This chair is bad. Give me a good chair!

- What is the problem with it?

- It is too short.

26.

- What do you want with your sandwich?

- Cheese and tomato.

27. Close the door and open the window! I need / want good air!
28. This soup is cold. Put it into the micro.
29. I think so. = Azt hiszem, igen.; think – gondol, thing – dolog

- Can you cook chicken soup?

- I think so.

- Please, cook some soup.

30.

- Do you have children?

- Yes, I have a daughter and a son.

31. the hardest – a legnehezebb; hate - utál

- Which is your hardest day?

- I hate Monday.

32. a cold – meghűlés; have a cold – meg van fázva; ill – beteg

- Where do you go?

- I go to the doctor.

- Why? What’s the problem?

- I think I am ill. I think I have a cold.

33. enemy – ellenség

Cats hate dogs. They are enemies.

35. Let’s (do)! – (Csinál)-junk (vmit)!

Let’s go! Let’s play! Let’s eat! Let’s drink a coffee!

36. ears – fül(ek); eyes – szem(ek); hands – kéz(ek); arms – kar(ok); legs – láb(ak)

I am cold. - ! – I have a cold.

I don’t have a cap. My ears are cold.

38.

This egg is bad. Don’t use / cook it!

42. far – messze

- What is that there?

- I can’t see it. It is too far, and my eyes are not too good.

43. careful – óvatos; BE …! – Légy / Legyél …!

Be careful! Don’t fall!

44. dangerous – veszélyes; (be) afraid – fél

Don’t drive fast! It is dangerous, and I am afraid.

45./46.

My father doesn’t like this film.

47. no way – (semmiképpen)

- How do you like fish?

- No way. I don’t like fish.

49. My children give me flowers on / for my birthdays.

50.

- I will go to London this summer.

- How will you go?

- I will fly.

51. stand – állni

- You are standing on my foot! / Oh, man, my foot!

- Sorry!

53. French – francia, France – Franciaország; uncle - nagybácsi

French fries = fried potatoes

French beans = zöldbab

French door = üveges erkélyajtó

My uncle lives in France but he isn’t (/doesn’t speak) French.

 

– 9. óra –

 

1. (Wh) is (hely)?; too – is/szintén

- What is in the fridge?

- Why? Are you hungry?

- Yes, very much.

- Do you like cold chicken?

- It will be good.

- Are you thirsty, too?

- Yes. You have fruit juice?

- Yes, in the white bottle.

 

2. ask somebody to (do) – megkérni vkit hogy tegyen meg valamit

Go in the garden. Ask the little girl to give water to the grandfather.

 

3.

- Which is your glass?

- That. The empty glass.

 

4. visit; see – meglátogatni; granny – nagyi; MUST -

- When will you visit / see your granny?

- Next weekend.

- She will be happy, because her grass is big, and you must cut it.

 

5. What colour is/are ___? – Milyen színű/ek ___?

Whata colour is your house?

What colours are your book?

- What colour are your son’s eyes?

- His eyes are green. = Ha has green eyes.

- What colour is your son’s hair?

- His hair is light brown. = He has light brown hair.

 

6. WITH - -val/-vel

I want a ham sandwich. = I want a sandwich with ham.

 

7. USE – használni

Don’t use that knife, because you will cut your finger / hand.

 

8. BUT – de, azonban

- I have a headache, but I have to / must work.

- Drink a hot tea!

- Will it help?

 

9. HOME – hazafelé; AT HOME – otthon; HOME-MADE – házi készítésű

- I hurry home to eat icecream.

- What icecream?

- Fruit icecream. I have very good home-made icecream at home.

- Don’t eat too much, because you will be ill / sick.

 

10. CAN’T – nem tud/képes ___-ni

I can’t sing well. I can’t swim well.

I can’t go into the house, because I don’t have my keays.

 

11. SWITCH ON/OFF – (BE/KI) KAPCSOL

Switch off the lamp when you leave the room.

 

12. PAIN - fájdalom

I have a headache. = I have pain in my head.

I have pain in my left leg / foot.

 

13. This is my letter. Don’t look into it.

 

14. VEGETABLE(S) – zöldség(ek)

That man eats meat with bread and vegetables.

 

15. Let’s (do it)! – (Csinál)-juk!

Let’s meet int he afternoon!

 

16. NEED – szüksége van (-re)

- Let’s make pancakes!

- What will we need?

- We will need milk, flour, sugar, eggs, oil, mineral water, jam, cottage cheese, etc.

 

17. SPEND – (el)költeni (pénzt); (el)tölteni (időt)

- Mother, give me money!

- Why?

- Just because. / Because I want to buy new shoes.

- How much do you want?

- I don’t want to spend too much.

 

18. Don’t speak with full mouth, becasue I don’t understand you.

 

19. TONIGHT – ma este, ma éjjel

Let’s meet at 9 tonight.

 

20. PAIN – fájdalom

- I have pain in my nose.

- Why? What is the problem with it?

- I have a cold.

 

21. ONE – (főnévhelyettesítő)

This is a yellow table, that is a red ONE.

ONE must pay taxes.

ONE must slepp 8 hours a day.

 

22. ONE BY ONE - egyenként

I will phone them one by one.

 

23. MADE - készítette; THEM – azokat, őket

- I made twenty pancakes. Will you eat them?

- Yes, one by one.

 

24.

- Who is in the room?

- Open the door, and you will see.

 

25. SO – így, ezért, tehát

I want to write a letter, so I need paper.

 

26. WALK = GO ON FOOT – gyalog megy; GO FOR A WALK – sétálni megy

I walk to work.

Let’s go for a walk to / int he park.

 

27.

- How much is that pen? = How many forints is that pen?

- Not expensive. / Cheap.

- How must I pay? Cash or card?

 

28.

- We will travel to Greece.

- How will you go?

- By plane.

- How long will it / that be?

- About two hours.

- What will you do on the plane?

- I will play with my phone.

 

29.

- Eat everything on your plate!

- But I am not hungry.

- But potato is good for you.

 

30.

PAY FINE – bírságot fizet; CATCH – elkap; CAUGHT - elkapta

The postman must pay fine, because the policeman caught him.

 

– 4. óra –

 

KÉRDŐSZAVAK

WHAT?

What is your name?

What is your favourite (colour)?

What are you wearing?

What is it like?

I have a house. – What is it like? – It’s big. It has eight rooms. – It has a garden. – It’s white.

What is the time? = What time is it?

What time?

 

WHERE?

Where do you live?

Where were you born?

Where do you work?

Where are you from?

Where are we?

Where is my bag?

Where are your shoes?

Where are we going?

Where is it?

WHERE + (dolog neve)

 

WHO?

Who are you?

Who is it?

ACTOR

Who is your favourite actor?

WITH

Who do you work with?

Who do you live with?

 

Somebody called you. – Who?

 

WHICH? (≠ witch)

Which do you want?

Which do you like?

Which is the best?

Which is the cheapest?

Let’s meet! – Which day? What time?

 

WHEN?

When were you born?

When is your birthday?

When do you work?

When do you start?

When do you finish?

When is it?

When is it good for you?

 

Why…? – Because… .

Why do you want to learn English?

Because it is useful.

Why do you work here?

Why do you eat this?

Why is it here?

Why are you happy?

Why are you sad?

Why don’t you come shopping with me?

Come shopping with me!

Why don’t you stop smokig?

 

WHOSE?

Whose films do you like?

Whose music do you like?

Whose is it?

Whose book is it?

 

HOW

How do you like coffee?

How do you do that?

How do you make coffee?

How do you cook soup?

How can I help? / Can I help you? / Need help?

How can I find the hospital? = Where is the hospital?

 

How hot is it?

How big is it?

How far is it?

How expensive is it?

How much is it?

How many?

How many rooms has it got?

It has eight rooms.

How many children have you got?

 

SITUATUIONS

1. TRAVELLING TOGETHER

What’s you name?

Where do you go?

Where are you going?

Where do you live?

What’s your job?

Do you have enough room?

Do you smoke?

2. AT A CAFÉ

What would you like?

Coffee and water.

How much?

A glass.

Would you like milk or sugar?

Milk and sugar, please.

Anything else?

No, thanks.

Waiter! The bill, please!

3. MARKET PLACE

What would you like?

How much is that?

Bag? (Where is a bag?)

There.

How many? / How many do you want?

A kilo.

Half a kilo.

A quarter of a kilo. = 250 gramms.

 

a couple

a dozen (=12)

one or two (1-2)

some

This much?

Enough.

 

potion

piece

packet

bag

bottle

boksz

jar

can

 

4. HOTEL

What is your name?

I would like to ask for my key.

Door seventeen. = Room 17.

 

5. ON A HOT BUS

Please.

Excuse me!

It is hot in here!

Please, turn on the air-conditioning.

Please, switch on the air-conditioning.

 

6. LOOKING FOR A POST OFFICE

Excuse me. Where is a post? I need a post. (=Is there a post near here?)

There is a post near here.

Where is it?

Where is it on the map?

Show it on the map!

straight on

Go straight here to the second corner, then turn right and the post is at the first corner.

 

 

– 5. óra –

 

Do you have a ___ in your ___?

1.

- Do you have a big bed in your bedroom?

- Yes.

- What is it like?

- My big bed is new.

 

2.

- Do you have a comfortable bath in your bathroom?

- Yes.

- What is it like?

- My comfortable bath wide and pink.

 

3.

- Do you have a dishwasher in your kitchen?

- Yes.

- What is it like?

- My dishwasher is modern and useful.

 

4.

- Do you have a TV in your living room?

- Yes.

- What is it like?

- My TV is new and flat.

 

5.

- Do you have a bench in your garden?

- Yes.

- What is it like?

- My bench brown and wide. (≠ white !!)

 

How big (is it)? – This size.

How many do you have?

What shape (is it)? – This shape.

 

COOK

 

I cook every day.

I cook soup. (≠ soap!! )

I am not a cook.

I want to cook scrambled eggs. (RECIPE = recept)

I need some eggs, oil, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, paprika, salt, pepper, potatoes, bacon, sausage, cheese, etc. (et cetera = stb.)

First, cut the vegetables!

Then, pour oil into a pan.

Then, put the vegetables into the hot oil.

Heat then for some time.

When the vegetables are soft, put the sausage or ham or bacon into it.

After that pour the eggs on them.

Scramble it for some time. (scramble = mix)

When it is ready, take it from the cooker. (cooker ≠ fire place /:open fire, camp fire)

 

PUTTING THINGS IN ORDER (= dolgok rendbe rakása)

Put the ___ (into/in /on) the ___ !

The ___ (go/goes) into/in/on the ___ !

 

Put the socks into the laundry.

The book goes on the shelf.

Put the towel into the bathroom. = The towel goes into the bathroom.

Put the plates into the cupboard. = The plates go into the cupboard.

Put the flowers into the vase. = The flowers go into the vase.

Put the shirts into the wardrobe. = The shirts go into the wardrobe.

 

(shirt ≠ skirt ≠ shorts ≠ T-shirt!)

 

(Részmennyiség kifejezése: „valamiből valamennyi”)

 

I need 6 eggs.

I need A BOX OF eggs.

I need A DOZEN eggs.

I need HALF A DOZEN eggs.

 

a bottle of oil

a litre of oil

 

a kilo of potatoes

2 kilos of potatoes

 

a slice of ham

a slice of cold cuts

 

a pair of sausage

 

a packet of (spice)

a bag of (spice)

 

a tin of mushrooms

a jar of mushrooms

 

Fogalmazás, a más megismert egyszerű mondatok segítségével.

(Az első mondatokkal már foglalkoztunk – a második mondat az első szerkezetére épül):

This airport is very modern. – This bag is very old.

Peter is American. – My friend is not Hungarian.

I've got two arms. – I’ve got two legs.

My bag is light. – My box is yellow.

The bath is in the bathroom. – The dining table is int he kitchen.

The bed is in the bedroom. – The wardrobe is int he living-room.

John's got a bicycle. – Bob’s got a car.

My house is very big. – My shoes are nice.

The bird is singing. – Mum is cooking.

Happy birthday! – Happy nameday!

He likes black coffee. – I like white coffee.

The sky is blue. – My car is white.

The books are on the shelf. – The chairs are int he room.

John is a nice boy. – Kate is a nice girl.

I eat bread for breakfast. – I eat a roll for supper.

I often take the bus. – I never take the train.

Butter is in the fridge. – Oil is int he pantry.

I buy bread at the baker's. – I buy meat at the bucher’s.

My camera is new. – My favourite bag is old.

The car is in the garage. – The letter is in the envelope. The table is int he living-room.

There's a cartoon on Tv. – Where is the table? – The table is in the living-room. – What is there int he living-room? – There is a table in the living-room.

My cat is called Muffin. – My dog is called Buksi.

This chair is comfortable. – This chair is old.

Mice like cheese. – Cats like mice.

The museum closes at five. – The shop closes at 6.

It's cold in winter. – It’s hot in summer.

My father cooks on Sundays. – My mother cooks every day.

Mrs Parker's got three daughters. – Mr. Smith has four sons.

 

– 6. óra –

 

1. The window is not broken.
2. Go out, please!
3. Go up, please!
4. Go down, please!
5. My grandmother is a happy woman.
6. My grandmother likes dogs.
7. Cats eat milk.
8. The roads are white in winter.
9. My mother’s got short hair.
10. My sister doesn’t like eggs.
11. They’re shaking their heads.
12. I’ve got backache.
13. I’ve got stomacheache.
14. It’s windy in spring.
15. They live in a flat.
16. I hurry int he morning.
17. I eat when I’m hungry.
18. I drink when I’m thirsty.
19. I drink hot tea in winter.
20. I work at work.
21. I am int he kitchen when I cook.
22. Where’s the toilet?
23. There’s a chair near my table.
24. I leave my workplace at 4.
25. I finish at 4.
26. I cook every day.
27. I’m cooking now.
28. I’ve broken my left arm, but I haven’t broken my right arm.
29. I’m reading my friend’s letter.
30. Look at that big house!
31. Sue is my friend and not my girlfriend.
32. I eat fruit for breakfast.
33. When can we meet? Tomorrow?
34. It’s nice to talk to you.
35. Postman delivers letter and bills.
36. I will deliver this envelope later.
37. He will arrive sooner or later.
38. He’s got a lot of time.
39. Her husband drives her to the cinema.
40. Drive me there!
41. I’ll drive you to the shops.
42. I saw a piece of cheese in the mouse’s mouth a month ago.
43. Is your glass full? – No, it is emnpty.
44. My pocket is full; his pocket is empty.
45. I have a packet (of chewing-gum) in my pocket.

 

Elöljárók gyakorlása:

46. „I can’t live with or without you.”
47. I need a glass of water.
48. I live in this town.
49. I work more in summer.
50. I was born in May.
51. I was born in 1973.
52. I live in a house.
53. I will be there in two hours.
54. I see a picture in a book.
55. I learn English on Wednesday.
56. I don’t work on Saturday.
57. My pen is on the table.
58. New Year’s Day is on 1st of January.
59. I go to sleep at 10.
60. We meet at Xmas (=Christmas) and at Easter.
61. He is at work.
62. Children / Students learn at school.
63. Go out of the room!
64. Don’t jump out of the window!
65. Put the book into the box!
66. Don’t run into the room!
67. Between you and me, your room is very dirty!
68. The table is between the chairs.
69. We learn English between 4 and 7.
70. I want coffee with sugar, without milk.
71. What is the matter (= problem) with you?
72. What’s the matter?
73. I can’t eat the soup without salt.
74. I see a car in front of (≈ opposite) the house.
75. The garden is behind the house.
76. What is behind me?
77. I go to work by car.
78. We learn English from 4 to 7.
79. I want to drink a coffee.