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Speaking, Reading and Vocabulary

a Work in pairs. Do you agree or disagree with these
sentences? Give reasons for your answers.
In June 1980, Maureen Wilcox became one of the US lottery's
1 Some people are born lucky. biggest losers. She chose the winning numbers for both the
2 Some people make their own luck. Rhode Island and Massachusetts lotteries. But unfortunately

3 People can learn to be lucky. for her, the numbers she picked for
the Rhode Island lottery were the
b Read the article about luck. Does Dr Wiseman agree or
correct ones for the Massachusetts
disagree with the sentences in Sa?
lottery, and vice versa.
c Read the article again. Which of these sentences is
We all know lucky people - they
correct? Correct the mistakes in the other sentences. have good relationships, successful
1 Maureen Wilcox won the lottery in June 1980. careers and are very satisfied with
2 Dr Wiseman has spent nearly ten years studying luck. their lives. But what makes them
so lucky? Dr Richard Wiseman
3 Lucky people behave in the same way as unlucky people.
has been studying luck for over
4 Unlucky people meet more new people than lucky people.
ten years and has found that lucky
5 The volunteers at luck school were all unlucky people. people have a completely different
6 All the volunteers who went to luck school became luckier. approach to the world.

d Work in pairs. Compare answers. What do you think of FOUR WAYS TO BE LUCKY
Dr Wiseman's ideas about luck?
The results of his work revealed that people aren't born lucky.
Instead, fortunate people behave in a way that creates good luck
• HELP WITH VOCABULARY Synonyms
• in their lives.
a Look at the words/phrases in pink in the article. Check
• They notice opportunities that happen by chance more often
• any words/phrases you don't know with your teacher .
• than unlucky people. They also meet more new people and
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• b The words in blue in the article are synonyms of the have more new experiences.
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• words in pink. Write them in the correct place in the tables. • They tend to make good decisions by listening to their intuition .
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• Write the infinitive form of the verbs. • They're optimistic and are certain that the future is going to
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• be full of good luck. This positive attitude often makes good
• choose pick by chance
• --+------ things happen .
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• satisfied attitude • They're also good at coping with bad luck and often cheer
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• lucky sure themselves up by imagining things could be worse than they are.
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• behave deal with
• LUCK SCHOOL
• notice show
• Dr Wiseman tested his ideas by starting a luck school, where he
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• c Match a word/phrase in A to a synonym in B . hoped that unlucky people could learn to be lucky. 400 volunteers
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• spent a month doing exercises to help them think and act like
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• A B a lucky person. These exercises helped the volunteers spot
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• concerned chat to someone opportunities that happen accidentally, trust their intuition more,
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• frightened glad feel sure they're going to be lucky and become better at dealing
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• make a decision have a go at doing with bad luck. The results were dramatic and showed that 80% of
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• try to do huge the volunteers were now happier and more content with their lives
• - and most important of all, luckier.
• talk to someone scared
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• nice make up your mind Dr Wiseman's ideas won't help you win the lottery, but they might
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• enormous worried help you in your day-to-day life - fingers crossed!
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• pleased brilliant
• _J
• wonderful _J awful
• I only need a job until
• terrible pleasant
• I win the lottery .
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• d Check in llMtfl!:lllf!!;\)il• p141 .
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Work in pairs. Test each other on the synonyms in 6b and 6c.
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by chance accidentally
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. Work in two groups. Group A p103. Group B p108 .