THE BAD LUCK THEORY

You invite your friends over to watch an NBA basketball playoff game on TV. There are
plenty of sodas in the refrigerator, the popcorn is popping and you are all set to watch the
bog game. You turn on the set, and all you get is fuzzy image on the screen. Is this plain
bad luck or is it Murphy’s Law at work? Murphy’s Law states: “If anything cango wrong, it
will.” Similar situations occur all the time. When you’re in a hurry to open thedoor and you
try several keys on the key ring, the last one you try is usually the one that works. When
you get into a line at a supermarket, you find you’ve chosen the slowest one, and it just
doesn’t move. Bad luck or coincidence? According to British physicist Robert Mathews, it’s
neither one nor the other. He explains that our selective memory tends to remember the
bad episodes more readily than the things that usually work out, and the law of
probability is more against us than in favor. For example, in the supermarket with five
cashiers, the chances of getting a fast line are 20 percent, and 80 percent for a slow line.
Mathews became a popular scientist when he proved that a piece of toast doesn’t
necessarily fall on the floor on the buttered side. BBC Television gathered 300 people to
throw pieces of buttered toast up in the air and observe on which side they fell. Half fell
on the buttered side, and half didn’t. Now here’s a tricky question for Dr. mathews. It’s a
known fact that cats always fall on their four legs. What happens if you tie a piece of
buttered toast on a cat’s back and drop them from a balcony? Will the cat land on all four,
or will the toast land on the buttered side? I sincerely hope the BBC doesn’t try this
experiment. Just remember that you cannot blame Murphy’s Law for everything that goes
wrong. If the hot water runs out while you’re having a shower, it’s probably because the
burner needs to be fixed. If your car breaks down on the way to a job interview, it’s
probably because you didn’t have the vehicle serviced or repaired.
2. Match the word with the definition

1. fuzzy ( 9) a. responsibility for anything wrong

2. plenty ( 11) b. a part of a device that hot water.
3. luck ( 5) c. to spread the fatty substance.
4. remember ( 8) d. to fall, descend.
5. buttered ( 12) e. to adjust, repair
6. gather ( 1) f. indistinct, not clear.
7 tie ( 6) g. to bring together.
8 drop ( 3) h. accident, fortune.
9.blame ( 4) i. to come to land or a port.
10. l10nd ( 2) j. abundant supply.
11.urner ( 10) k. to fasten by a cord or other
12. fix
ENTREGA PARA EL DIA 23 DE JUNIO 2020 SEMANA DEL 23 AL 26 DE JUNIO

You are going to read an extract from a novel. Use your dictionary to look for the unknown
vocabulary and then mark the right answer. Lea Atentamente el texto y marque la opción
correcta.
Gran’s shop

On Saturday morning I worked in the family shop. I started cycling down the shop with dad on
Saturdays as soon as I was big enough. I thought if is as giving him a hand and so I didn’t mind
what I did, although it was mostly just fetching and carrying at a run all morning. I managed not to
think of it as a work and I looked forward for the bar of chocolate my grandmother passed me
unsmilingly as I left. I tried not to look at her; I had a reason to feel guilty because I’d generally
already eaten some dried fruit or a sliver of cheese when no one was looking. As soon as I was
fifteen, though, Dad said, ́that’s it our Janet. You’re of working age now and you’re not coming to
work unless your grandmother pays you properly. He did his best to make his chin look shop. I
always hated going in there. She had an electric heater on full blast, and the windows were always
tight closed whatever the weather. ‘You’re wanting to get paid, I hear,’ she said. ‘Yes, please,’ I
replied. It was rather like visiting the headmistress at school, so I was very quiet and respectful.
Gran searched through the mess of papers on her crowded desk, sighing and clicking her tongue.
Eventually she produced an official leaflet and ran her fingers along the column of figures. ‘How
old are you?’ ‘Fifteen...Gran,’ I added for extra politeness, but she looked at me as if I had been
cheeky. ‘full-timers at your age get forty pounds for a thirty-five-hour week,’ she announced in
such a way as not to leave doubt that she wasn’t in favour of it. ‘No wonder that is not profit in
shopkeeping! So Janet, what’s that per hour?’ questions like that always flustered me. Instead of
trying to work them out in my head, I would just stand there, unable to think straight. ‘I’ll get a
pencil and paper,’ I offered. ‘Don’t bother,’ snapped Gran angrily, ‘I’ll do myself. ‘I’ll give you a
pound and hour, take it or leave it.’ ‘I’ll take it, please.’ ‘And I expect real work for it, mind. No
standing about, and if I catch you eating any of the stock, there ́ll be trouble. That is theft, and it is
a crime’. From then on, my main job in the store was filling the shelves. This was dull, but I hardly
expected to be trusted with handling the money. Once or twice, however, when Dad was extra
busy, I’d tried to help him by serving behind the counter. I hated it. It was difficult to remember
the prices or everything and I was particularly hopeless at using the till. Certain costumers made
unkind remarks about this, increasing the confusion and chances of making a fool of myself. It was
an old-established village shop, going back 150 years at least and it was really behind the times
even then. Dad longed to make the shop more attractive to costumers, but Gran wouldn’t to hear
of it. I averheard them once arguing about whether to buy a freezer cabinet. ‘Our customers want
to have frozen food,’ Dad said. ‘they see thinks advertised and if they can’t get from us, they’ll go
elsewhere.’ ‘Your father always sold fresh food,’ Gran replied. ‘People come here for quality; they
don’t want all that frozen stuff.’ Actually, she gave way in the end over the freezer. Mr. Timpson,
her great rival, installed one in his shop at the other end of the village and customers started to
make loud comments about how handy it was being able to get frozen food in the village, and how
good Mr. Timpson’s sausages were. It had really upset her because she was proud of her sausages
and she ungraciously gave Dad the money to buy the freezer. Within a couple of weeks, she was
eating frozen food like the rest of us.

According to the text which is the best answer

1. How did Janet feel when she first started her Saturday morning job?
A. She enjoyed the work that she was given. X
B. She was pleased to be helping her father.
C. She worried that she was not doing it well.
D. She was only interested in the reward.

2. What do we learn about her grandmother’s office in paragraph two?

A. It needed decoration.
B. It was untidy. X
C. It had too much furniture in it.
D. It was dark.

3. ‘This’ (in line 18) refers to

A. shopkeepers’ profits
B. a thirty-five-hour week
C. Janet’s request X
D. the recommended wage

4. ‘Flustered’ (in line 18) means

A. bored
B. angered X
C. confused
D. depressed

5. Why did Janet’s grandmother react angrily to her offer to fetch a pencil and paper?
A. Janet was unable to answer a question. X
B. Janet had been unwilling to help her.
C. Janet had made an unhelpful suggestion.
D. Janet had answered her rudely.

6. What did Janet’s father and grandmother disagree about?

A. How to keep their customers loyal to the shop. X
B. The type of advertisement needed to attract customers.
C. The type of customers they needed to attract.

7. What eventually persuaded Janet’s grandmother to buy a freezer?

A. She found that she liked frozen food after all.
B. A new shop opening in the village had one. X
C. It was suggested that her products weren’t fresh.
D. She responded to the pressure from the customers.

8. What impression do we get of Janet’s feelings towards her grandmother?

A. She respected her fairness.
B. She doubted her judgment. X
C. She disliked her manner.
D. She admired her determination.
1 answer these questions

A Where do you live what is your neighborhood

B who do you live with
C do you live in an apartment or a house
D which is your favorite part of your house apartment why

A I live in the Cali city

B I live in the sardy neighborhood
C fathers and brothers
D I live in a house
E the terrace why am I going to recreate

2 complete this easy crossword

Across
3 where do you cook
4 where do you eat clinner
5 where do you sleep

Down
1 where do you watch TV
2 where do you brush your teeth
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2
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3
k i t c h e n h
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d i n i n g r o o m
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3 identify objects in a room

Look al the image of the bedroom and identify the objects around

2 complete the blank spaces using “there is” and “there are”
There is a window
There are some books on the shelf
There is a laptop on the bed
There is a chair
There are some notes on the wall
 3. Write 3 more things you find in bedroom
There is a fan
There are some furniture
There are some speakers

2write a description of your bedroom following last example

I am halbert from Cali Colombia my brothers and I have a room there is a cabin and a bed next to
mine there is a closed to place clothes and a television

1match the place and the definitions

What is a it a place where you

1 grocery stores A. wash and dry your cloches

2 barber shop B. buy paper pens and envelopes
3 laundry C .send letters or packages
4 stationery store D. buy bread and cakes
5 Post office E. get food and small items for the
6 bakery F. get a haircut

2 now write definitions for these places

A coffee shop drinks a red

B drug store buy medicine

C gas stations recargar un móvil

D library read books

1 watch this video and pay attention to the activities

 2 Our routines have changed in this quarantine so I want you to answer the following
questions

A are you following a schedule

B are you exercising are you eating well

C how are you feeling describe your feeling

A when I love free time

B if I’m doing exercise and I’m eating well

C I feel very good thanks to that virus it has not touched or touched my house

1 label the pictures use phrases from the box

A they play

B he plants

C they cosine

2 number the pictures in the order you do the activities then white your routine

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B I get up, I take a bath, I look for breakfast, I go to work, I return at 5pm, I take a bath, I do my
homework, I do homework, Luegomiro TV at 10 and then I go to sleep.

1 reed what there young people miss the most

A they miss their daily

2write a list of 4 activities you miss doing

A I listen to music with my friends

B I make and fly kites with my friend

C I go to the store to buy protected

D I share my time with my family

CARABALI MONTAÑO JOSE HALBERT

AREA DE INGLES

PROFE YURANITH

INSTITUCION EDUCATIVA BARTOLOME

LOBOGUERRERO

CICLO 5-1

AÑO 2020