American English Proverbs - 3

5 лет назад

 A leopard can’t change its spots

(A person cannot change his or her basic character once it has been formed)

Read this dialogue to see an example:

- Bruce, I am at my wits’ end. I don’t know what to do about having Rebecca clean up her room.

- Didn’t she promise to tidy it up this afternoon?

- She did. And look at it. It’s still a mess! I can’t and won’t keep picking up after her.

- It looks like a leopard cannot change its spots. No matter what we do, she won’t keep her room in order.

- Please don’t expect me to believe that her habits are already formed and she can’t change them. She’s too young for that.

- OK. I’ll have a talk with her and see what I can do. 

- Good luck. But I bet you won’t get her to change her much.

Activities:
1.- Try to use it in context telling your own anecdote or making up a short dialgue like this one.

2.- Can you think of an equivalent proverb in any other language?