Surprises & Superstitions

That’s strange4A

VOCABULARY •A job you have to

do regularly at home

•Chore

•Something that is not what it seems to be

•Illusion

•A flat area outside a building usually with a stone floor and used for leisure or social activities

•Terrace

VOCABULARY •A natural ability

to know where you are

•Sense of direction

•Someone who is paid to cook or clean someone else’s house

•Servant, help

•An action meant to deceive or to cheat; a joke

•Trick

VOCABULARY•A day you don’t

have to work

•Day-off

•Unable to achieve or come true

•Impossible

•Get someone to start thinking

•Force someone to question

•Two people

•Couple

USEFUL PHRASES•I get the

impression

•I have a vague idea

•What’s is the point of ...?

•What is the objective/purpose of ... ?

•The point is there is no point.

•There is no real purpose to it.

•I figure ...

•I think, In my opinion, ...

USEFUL PHRASES•Why don’t we just

agree to disagree?

•Used to accept the different opinions, at the end of a conversation

•To be busy doing something

•To be occupied with a certain task

•To get someone’s attention

•To make someone look or listen

The place The time of day

The people

Michael A very hot place

Noon, lunchtime

All servants

Karen

Large family

house in the

country

Morning

People relaxing

and enjoying

themselves at home

VOCABULARY•Disorienting -

making you feel confused and not able to understand what is happening

•Information overload can be disorienting.

•Amusing - funny

•Mesmerizing - making you feel completely interested

•The ancient Rome civilization is mesmerizing.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?•A man is sleeping

in his home.

•He is a heavy sleeper.

•Another man and a woman break into the sleeping man’s home.

•They break a window to enter but the sleeping man does not wake up.

•The intruders open the refrigerator.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?•The man opens a

bottle of soda, drinks it, and offers to the woman who says ‘No, thanks’.

•Finally, the sleeping man wakes up.

•He says ‘Who’s there’ after the couple leave.

Good Luck & Bad Luck

4B

VOCABULARY•A small house

made of wood

•Cabin

•To put enough liquid in a container to make it full

•Fill up

•An instrument that measures the amount of a car’s gasoline

•Fuel gauge

•To sleep for longer than you intended

•To oversleep

VOCABULARY•To ask for something

because you think you have the right to it

•Claim

•No one has claimed the lottery prize yet.

•To have the right to claim something

•Qualify

•She qualifies for a smaller prize.

•A brother of a person you married to

•Brother-in-law

VOCABULARY•To ring, or to make a

loud noise

•To go off

•The alarm clock didn’t go off, so he overslept.

•Succeed in doing something

•Manage

•He managed to get the job done in time.

•Almost not

•Hardly

•He hardly sleeps the night before the test result.

FILL IN THE BLANK• Radio

• One

• Numbers

• Favorite

• Readable

• Taxi

• Ticket

• Bad

• Mountains

• Overslept

• Nine

• Flat

• Fixed

• Midnight

• Key

• Rock

• window