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Making guesses, put the beginnings and ends together using expressions from the box. (There are too many expressions.) a black cat all year a mirror an old shoe dark hair four potatoes good luck seven years Task 1_____________________________________________________________ some money some salt some wine a pinch of salt the sky the weather your left hand If you see ____________, If you spill ____________, If ____________ is red tonight If your first visitor in New Year has ____________, If ____________ itches, If you break ____________, ____________ will be fine tomorrow. youll get ____________ soon. youll have ____________. throw ____________ over your shoulder. youll have ____________ bad luck. youll have good luck ___________.

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Now, check your answers by reading this information about British superstitions. In Great Britain and in Another British superstition holds that Ireland, black cats are a spilling salt brings bad luck. The origins of symbol of good luck. The the superstition can be in ancient times, Scottish believe that a when salt was a valuable commodity and a symbol of trust and friendship. A variety strange black cat's arrival of methods are used to avert the bad luck to the home signifies of spilt salt. The most common prosperity. In Celtic contemporary belief requires you to toss a mythology, a fairy known pinch of the spilt salt over your left as the Cat Sth takes the shoulder, into the face of the Devil who form of a black cat. In all lurks there. Britain, black Cats are According to British people, featured on many good breaking a mirror brings you luck greetings cards and seven years of bad luck. The birthday cards. superstition is supposed to There's an old superstition that have originated in ancient when your palms itch it means times, when mirrors were money. An itching left palm means considered to be tools of the money to be received soon, while an gods. The beginnings of this itching right palm is money going belief might lie in the fact that away from you. To stop the left palm when mirrors were first made from itching, the superstition says to of glass, they were so scratch the palm on a piece of wood expensive that anyone who in order to be sure to receive the broke a mirror was given as money. However, you shouldnt a servant to the owner of the scratch your right hand when it mirror for seven years if he In Great Britain, it was thought that a person can affect the luck they will have throughout the coming year by the colour of his hair. It was once believed in Great Britain that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky when the first visitor happened to be a tall, dark-haired man. There is an old British saying that claims: Red sky at night, sailor's delight. While many old sayings are unreliable and of little practical use, here is the meteorological logic behind this one. Deep red sunsets are often associated with dry, settled weather and high pressure. A deep red sunset may indicate a prolonged spell of good weather. But the key sign is in the red sky around the sun - and not the colour of the cloud itself.

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Here you have some other British superstitions, its your turn to make the sentences using the first conditional. Be careful, prompts can be not in order. 1. touch wood/make something true _____________________________________________________________________________ 2. a male visitor come/drop a table knife _____________________________________________________________________________ 3. bring bad luck/open an umbrella indoors _____________________________________________________________________________ 4. somebody is dead/bread not rise _____________________________________________________________________________ 5. have a big argument/cross cutlery on your plate _____________________________________________________________________________ 6. drop a table fork/ a female visitor come _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. one of them become pregnant within a year/two women pour tea from the same teapot _____________________________________________________________________________ 8. see a dog eating grass/rain soon _____________________________________________________________________________

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Can you think of some of your countrys superstitions? Try to express them using the first conditional.