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B Group work Discus these questions
|. How won you explain the evens in each story?
2. Why do you think abloid newspapers containing tris like these are so popula?
5. Have you heard of any unusual ris lke the ones above? Share sem
with the group,
work Complete thee setences with word from the lit below: Then compare
your anerers with spares,
alien __ESP(extrsensory perception) psychic UPO (ankdntifed ying object
tology ghost ty
1. _ pode someone who has the power to predict
the fate oo wo thing that ae ot present. Tey
‘onesies help solve crimes
2 fe the ability to ead person's mind”
ply by ing met powers
ake ‘a crete om ote space ~ an
‘habitat of another ne cr gly
1 eT a ait of someone wha bas die
5:Aying saucer” an exmple of
range object people sometimes sr in he ay
6 te ay to gu formation wing
ental powers ota ofthe five sens
1 ce tc noenc fa and panes
People don't belive this anymore, butt used to bes that
}> Resell, thas Been reported i the news that
> Several years ago, sas rumored tata debit
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discussion A. Pair work Compete the char. Then discuss your answers with a partes
| ayeies have been dbo loaaoeime wis wing
‘etosensry perception,
2.UFOs are el and may people hove seen them.
'3.Governerts dnt want popl know the rsh aout UFOs
People's ives ore atc by tel ostoogl sigs
5.Some peopl can use telepathy "tod ofer people nds”
B Group work Compare your answers. Which statements do most ofthe people
in your group agree with?
35discussion AA Read thee sores and match them with Use definitions onthe right. Check your
smnnwers on page 11
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B Pair work Can you give at leat one other example of each kind of ey?
‘Share your examples with the cls,
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listening #9 Listen wo Marna and Frank tll stories, Tike notes as you stem
1B Now take tums tellig one ofthe stores in your wn words
36 (URreading A Pair work Dicuss these question with a parser. Then read the article, and
‘compare your Wess withthe author’
I. Di you ever have the Fecing that Something tele wae going to happen?
2. Did Jou ever cancel any plans becaise something “side you mae ol uneasy?
{De you think that some poople ean predic the fre?
«ops sometins ae he eng ta
thay know something is going to
happen. This caed a premonition,
Some premonitons take the form of dreams
for visions. Others are just ton fesins,
ideas. or guesses hat ome int people's
minds for no apparent reason
‘Some peopl claim that hey have
premonitons atone tne oe another bt
people know as psychies or lairvoyants
appear to be more sensitive whatever
‘causes accurate premonitons. The following
story is about the Titanic andthe many
nparently mysterious forewarings that
vere ponte
Inthe early moring 9 Agi 15, 1912,
the Tuam the word's largest ocean line at
the ime, struck an ieeherp and sank on het
maiden voyage across the Atlantic. A total
of 1502 fives wer lox. Later investigation
umd up last 29 eae of geople having
premonitions ofthe disaste
‘One ofthe strangest examples of an
apparent premonition volved a novel
called Ful, writen in 1898 by Morgan
Roberson, Inthe book buge int, the
The sintsngoy te
TITANIC
ia, ask afer hing an leeberg Like
the Pita the tan was 381 be
nsinkable. Also like the Tan, the
Tan cated tof liebe fo the
large numberof passengers onboard
‘waditon, thre were two other tries
that appeared to free the disaes, both
‘writen bya passenger om the doomed
Ship-one of them over 20 years erie
‘A east nine people had deers in
hich 8 shi ike the land hit an esberg
and sank. Two earveyants gave waings
shout the disaster, and Several other people
had extremely strong intuitions that
somthing would go wrong, Some would-be
passengers were so uneasy abou the voyage
‘at they canceled their tickets athe st
‘minute, All these yneanny coincidences
appear tobe premonition. There seems to
hemo way of explaining them,
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B Group work Discus hee qustions Then share your anewers with the cls
1 Why do you think so many people had preonitons about the Titi?
2. Hime yon everest sme king reins othe mew yar aout an
important event? What was your opinion about thse prediction?
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