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4b Are you superstitious?

1 Warm-up

Look at the situations on the right and
discuss the following questions. walking under finding a four-leaf a black cat
a ladder clover crossing your path
• Which of them do you think
bring good luck and which bad
luck?
• Do you believe in any of these
superstitions?
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• Do you know of any other
superstitions? having a horseshoe breaking a mirror Friday the 13 th
above a door

2 Read 

A. Look at the picture. Why do you think May
is shocked? Listen to the dialogue and check
your answers. Then read it out in groups.
May Let’s go to the video arcade, shall we?
Adam OK.
Kelly Do you feel like a crisp?
Adam No thanks.
May Whoa! What do you think you’re doing?
Kelly Having some crisps.
May Not that. You’ve just walked under a ladder!
Kelly So what?
May That will bring you bad luck, you know.
Kelly I don’t believe in all that rubbish.
Adam You’re not superstitious, May, are you?
May Well, after what happened to my dad, yes, I am.
Kelly What happened?
May A couple of years ago, he broke a mirror at home
by accident. The next day he was driving to work
when a black cat ran into the middle of the street.
Adam He didn’t run it over, did he?
May No, but as he was trying to avoid the cat, he
crashed into a bus stop.
Adam And you’re saying that happened because of the
mirror? Kelly Yuk! That’s disgusting!
May Yep. Adam It works! We’ve won all our games
Kelly That’s nonsense! You don’t believe in all that this year.
Adam, do you? Kelly That’s because the other team smell
Adam Not really. your socks and run in the other
May Are you sure? What about your lucky socks? direction!
Kelly His what? May Ha, ha, ha!
May He hasn’t washed his football socks since his Adam Hey, give me a break!
team won the cup last year.

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