Reporting clauses

Admit, agree, asume, believe, doubt, explain,

feel, say. Formal: argue, assert, claim, report.

• “If you walk under a ladder, it will bring you bad luck”.

• Some people ______ that if you walk under a ladder, it will bring
you bad luck.

• In Russia, …
• In Japan, …
• In Greece, …
 Believe that
• In Turkey, ____________________ chewing gum at night brings
bad luck.
Say that
• Greeks ____________________ shooting stars were falling
human souls and it was lucky to make a wish on them.
Persons agree
• ____________________ opening an umbrella indoors literally
asks for bad luck to “rain on you”.

• In Russia ____________________ bird pooping on your car is a

People say
sign of good luck.

• In England ____________________ saying “rabbit rabbit” on the

they asume
first day of the month will bring you good luck for the rest of it.