Speaking and listening Pre-intermediate to Upper-intermediate

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SUPERSTITION
Superstition: a belief not based on reason or fact, but on old ideas about luck and magic

Are you superstitious? Whos the most superstitious Have you ever visited a fortune
If so, give examples. person you know? teller?
If not, explain why. Talk about him or her. What did he or she predict?

Whats your star sign? Do you read the horoscope? Which sign of the Chinese
How many signs of the zodiac Do you believe in it? zodiac were you born under?
do you know? Has it ever come true? How many do you know?

Do you believe in astrology? Have you ever eaten in a Do you believe in ghosts?
What are lucky or unlucky Chinese restaurant? Have you ever seen one?
numbers? Did you get a fortune cookie? Talk about it.

Whats the strangest thing Has a dream ever come true? Whats a lucky charm?
that has ever happened to you? Can dreams predict the Give examples.
Talk about it. future? Talk about it. Do you have one?

What are things that are What are things that are Do you believe in UFOs?
considered unlucky? considered lucky? Are we alone in the universe?
Explain. Explain. Give your view.

Do you believe in fate (= power Do you believe in reincarnation? Whats the strangest old wives
believed to control all events)? (= born in another body after death) tale youve ever heard?
Why or why not? Why or why not? (= a superstitious belief or story
belonging to traditional folklore)

Lucky (L), unlucky (U) or

neither (x)
in your country?
meet a black cat
break a mirror
four-leaf clover
Friday the 13th
horseshoe over the door
open umbrella indoors
the number 13
Aquarius Gemini Sagittarius the number 4
Aries Leo Scorpio the number 8
Cancer Libra Taurus the number 9
Capricor touch or knock on wood
n Pisces Virgo walk under a ladder