WARM-UP VIDEO FOR EXPRESSIONS

Instructions. Fill the gaps with one of the following expressions: bad luck, better luck, element of luck, good luck with that, with any luck

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

Where do superstitions come from? - Stuart Vyse where Jesus Christ dined with his twelve disciples just before being arrested and crucified. The resulting idea that having thirteen people at a table was (1) ………….. eventually expanded into thirteen being an unlucky number in general. Now, this fear of the number thirteen, called triskaidekaphobia, long after the stagehands started using radio headsets. Along the same lines, lighting three cigarettes from the same match really could cause (2) ………….. if you were a soldier in a foxhole where keeping a match lit too long could draw attention from an enemy sniper. Most smokers no longer have to worry about snipers, Football physics: The "impossible" free kick - Erez Garty you'd have to make the ball spin over 15 times faster than Carlos's immortal kick. So (3) …………... Channel: CrashCourse Love or Lust? Romeo and Juliet Part II: Crash Course English Literature #3 So that's one way to read the story. Romeo and Juliet's hubris in believing they can change the universe leads to their demise. But actually, how responsible are they? I mean, there's a lot of (4) ………….. involved. There's the messenger's delay, the hastening of the wedding between Juliet and Paris. Now, in the source material, Brooke's Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet, Brooke makes it explicit that it's their own fault and Channel: Numberphile Synesthesia - Numberphile very different way. -13, the most important thing is tremendous good luck. It's (5) ………….. for everybody else, but for a magician, somebody who likes-- -It's prime. Channel: CGP Grey Gerrymandering Explained line that splits the voters in twain and repeat as necessary until all the ranges are made. This is much better than an 'independent' commission, but it does have the problem of occasionally producing skewed election results just through pure (6) ………….. of where the boundaries are drawn. But by publishing the algorithm used, all citizens can check the results and be confident Death to Pennies If you want to spend pennies without being an inconsiderate jerk who wastes other peoples' time perhaps you can find a machine that will accept them. (7) …………... Vending machines won't take pennies, neither laundry machines or toll booths or parking meters or anything else -- because pennies aren't worth the time and effort to count, store and transport them. The Rules for Rulers No man rules alone, after all. Or you could take the moral path, and ignore the big keys. But you'll fight against those who didn't. (8) …………... Corruption is not some kind of petty crime, but rather a tool of power, … …in democracies and dictatorships, but more on that another time. Channel: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Juno Spacecraft Listens for a Greeting From Earth Everybody's doing this at the same time. Thousands and thousands of HAMS. (9) ………….., the Juno spacecraft will be able to listen and hear all these amateur radio transmissions. And so what we're doing now is Mission Control Live: NASA InSight Mars Landing and even before that for Mars Polar Lander, so a lot of the basic design we inherited for this mission. On the other hand we had a little bit of (10) ………….. In that the instruments, the seismometer is so unbelievably precise, Channel: Khan Academy Introduction to definite integrals Graph it. That's a horrible line. Have to use the line tool, might have (11) …………... It's slightly better. Exponential Growth Functions And the chain letter says you have to now send this chain letter to 10 more new people, and if you don't, you're going to have (12) ………….., and your hair is going to fall out, and you'll marry a frog, or whatever else. So all of these people agree and they go and each send it When Capitalism is Great and Not-so-great And it could even be good for society because this person's an innovator. Maybe there was an (13) …………..there. But it seems like they're competent at managing these resources.

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

Where do superstitions come from? - Stuart Vyse where Jesus Christ dined with his twelve disciples just before being arrested and crucified. The resulting idea that having thirteen people at a table was (1) ( bad luck) eventually expanded into thirteen being an unlucky number in general. Now, this fear of the number thirteen, called triskaidekaphobia, long after the stagehands started using radio headsets. Along the same lines, lighting three cigarettes from the same match really could cause (2) ( bad luck) if you were a soldier in a foxhole where keeping a match lit too long could draw attention from an enemy sniper. Most smokers no longer have to worry about snipers, Football physics: The "impossible" free kick - Erez Garty you'd have to make the ball spin over 15 times faster than Carlos's immortal kick. So (3) ( good luck with that) . Channel: CrashCourse Love or Lust? Romeo and Juliet Part II: Crash Course English Literature #3 So that's one way to read the story. Romeo and Juliet's hubris in believing they can change the universe leads to their demise. But actually, how responsible are they? I mean, there's a lot of (4) ( bad luck) involved. There's the messenger's delay, the hastening of the wedding between Juliet and Paris. Now, in the source material, Brooke's Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet, Brooke makes it explicit that it's their own fault and Channel: Numberphile Synesthesia - Numberphile very different way. -13, the most important thing is tremendous good luck. It's (5) ( bad luck) for everybody else, but for a magician, somebody who likes-- -It's prime. Channel: CGP Grey Gerrymandering Explained line that splits the voters in twain and repeat as necessary until all the ranges are made. This is much better than an 'independent' commission, but it does have the problem of occasionally producing skewed election results just through pure (6) ( bad luck) of where the boundaries are drawn. But by publishing the algorithm used, all citizens can check the results and be confident Death to Pennies If you want to spend pennies without being an inconsiderate jerk who wastes other peoples' time perhaps you can find a machine that will accept them. (7) ( Good luck with that) . Vending machines won't take pennies, neither laundry machines or toll booths or parking meters or anything else -- because pennies aren't worth the time and effort to count, store and transport them. The Rules for Rulers No man rules alone, after all. Or you could take the moral path, and ignore the big keys. But you'll fight against those who didn't. (8) ( Good luck with that) . Corruption is not some kind of petty crime, but rather a tool of power, … …in democracies and dictatorships, but more on that another time. Channel: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Juno Spacecraft Listens for a Greeting From Earth Everybody's doing this at the same time. Thousands and thousands of HAMS. (9) ( With any luck) , the Juno spacecraft will be able to listen and hear all these amateur radio transmissions. And so what we're doing now is Mission Control Live: NASA InSight Mars Landing and even before that for Mars Polar Lander, so a lot of the basic design we inherited for this mission. On the other hand we had a little bit of (10) ( bad luck) In that the instruments, the seismometer is so unbelievably precise, Channel: Khan Academy Introduction to definite integrals Graph it. That's a horrible line. Have to use the line tool, might have (11) ( better luck) . It's slightly better. Exponential Growth Functions And the chain letter says you have to now send this chain letter to 10 more new people, and if you don't, you're going to have (12) ( bad luck) , and your hair is going to fall out, and you'll marry a frog, or whatever else. So all of these people agree and they go and each send it When Capitalism is Great and Not-so-great And it could even be good for society because this person's an innovator. Maybe there was an (13) ( element of luck) there. But it seems like they're competent at managing these resources.

Sources: 

Channel: TED-Ed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quOdF1CAPXs

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