1. Surprises & Superstitions

2. That’s strange
4A

3. VOCABULARY
•A job you have to •A flat area outside
do regularly at a building usually
home with a stone floor
and used for
•Chore leisure or social
•Something that is activities
not what it seems •Terrace
to be
•Illusion

4. VOCABULARY
•A natural ability •Servant, help
to know where
you are •An action meant
to deceive or to
•Sense of cheat; a joke
direction
•Trick
•Someone who is
paid to cook or
clean someone
else’s house

5. VOCABULARY
•A day you don’t •Get someone to
have to work start thinking
•Day-off •Force someone
to question
•Unable to achieve
or come true •Two people
•Impossible •Couple

6. USEFUL PHRASES
•I get the •The point is there
impression is no point.
•I have a vague •There is no real
idea purpose to it.
•What’s is the point •I figure ...
of ...?
•I think, In my
•What is the opinion, ...
objective/
purpose of ... ?

7. USEFUL PHRASES
•Why don’t we just •To be occupied
agree to disagree? with a certain
task
•Used to accept
the different •To get someone’s
opinions, at the attention
end of a
conversation •To make
someone look or
•To be busy doing listen
something

8. The time The
The place
of day people
A very Noon, All
Michael
hot place lunchtime servants
Large People
family relaxing
and
Karen house in Morning enjoying
the themselves
country at home

9. VOCABULARY
•Disorienting - •Amusing - funny
making you feel
confused and not •Mesmerizing -
able to making you feel
understand what completely
is happening interested
•Information •The ancient
overload can be Rome
disorienting. civilization is
mesmerizing.

10. WHAT IS HAPPENING?
•A man is sleeping •They break a
in his home. window to enter
but the sleeping
•He is a heavy man does not
sleeper. wake up.
•Another man and •The intruders
a woman break open the
into the sleeping refrigerator.
man’s home.

11. WHAT IS HAPPENING?
•The man opens a •He says ‘Who’s
bottle of soda, there’ after the
drinks it, and couple leave.
offers to the
woman who says
‘No, thanks’.
•Finally, the
sleeping man
wakes up.

12. Good Luck &
Bad Luck
4B

13. VOCABULARY
•A small house •An instrument
made of wood that measures the
amount of a car’s
•Cabin gasoline
•To put enough •Fuel gauge
liquid in a
container to make •To sleep for longer
it full than you intended
•Fill up •To oversleep

14. VOCABULARY
• To ask for something • To have the right to
because you think claim something
you have the right to
it • Qualify
• Claim • She qualifies for a
smaller prize.
• No one has
claimed the • A brother of a
lottery prize yet. person you married
to
• Brother-in-law

15. VOCABULARY
• To ring, or to make a • He managed to
loud noise get the job done
in time.
• To go off
• Almost not
• The alarm clock
didn’t go off, so he • Hardly
overslept.
• He hardly sleeps
• Succeed in doing the night before
something the test result.
• Manage

16. FILL IN THE BLANK
• Radio • Overslept
• One • Nine
• Numbers • Flat
• Favorite • Fixed
• Readable • Midnight
• Taxi • Key
• Ticket • Rock
• Bad • window
• Mountains