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B2 Year 1 – 1B Foretelling the future

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Listen to part of a lecture about ways of foretelling the future. Complete the sentences with
one or two words and write them in the gaps provided.

1. A canary will choose a ______________ that reveals your fortune.

2. Telling the future by examining the intestines of dead animals began in Babylon and was
continued by ______________ and Romans.

3. Julius Caesar used a seer to read the organs of a ______________________, and this warned
him about his death.

4. To read the future, we have looked at ________________ and at the skies.

5. The science that tells the future by looking at the stars is called ________________.

6. The technique of examining the face to tell the future began in ______________.

7. Palm readers believe that aspects of our lives correspond to the ________________ on our
hands.

8. The most famous object associated with fortune telling is the _______________.

FORETELLING THE FUTURE

1 CARD
2 THE GREEKS
3 (SACRIFICED) BULL
4 ANIMALS
5 ASTROLOGY
6 (ANCIENT) CHINA
7 LINES
8 CRYSTAL BALL