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    This document summarizes various food-related superstitions from different countries around the world. Some examples include a Korean belief that eating asymmetrical foods while pregnant will result in an ugly baby, a Brazilian superstition that keeping your purse on the floor means becoming penniless, and a Rwandan tradition where women avoid eating goat meat for fear of growing facial hair. The document also includes word definitions to guess the meanings of unfamiliar terms from the context.

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    This document summarizes various food-related superstitions from different countries around the world. Some examples include a Korean belief that eating asymmetrical foods while pregnant will result in an ugly baby, a Brazilian superstition that keeping your purse on the floor means becoming penniless, and a Rwandan tradition where women avoid eating goat meat for fear of growing facial hair. The document also includes word definitions to guess the meanings of unfamiliar terms from the context.

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    This document summarizes various food-related superstitions from different countries around the world. Some examples include a Korean belief that eating asymmetrical foods while pregnant will result in an ugly baby, a Brazilian superstition that keeping your purse on the floor means becoming penniless, and a Rwandan tradition where women avoid eating goat meat for fear of growing facial hair. The document also includes word definitions to guess the meanings of unfamiliar terms from the context.

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    This document summarizes various food-related superstitions from different countries around the world. Some examples include a Korean belief that eating asymmetrical foods while pregnant will result in an ugly baby, a Brazilian superstition that keeping your purse on the floor means becoming penniless, and a Rwandan tradition where women avoid eating goat meat for fear of growing facial hair. The document also includes word definitions to guess the meanings of unfamiliar terms from the context.

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    TIO T H
    NS AROUN D
    KOREA ICELAND
    Pregnant Women Should Not
    Eat Asymmetrical Foods Knitting Outside Can Prolong Winter
    There's a Korean superstition that If you're in Iceland, keep the knitting inside
    nibbling unshapely food while the house. There's a local superstition that
    pregnant means you will end up with doing your needlework on your doorstep
    an ugly baby. will keep those temperatures frigid.

    BRAZIL JAPAN
    Don't Let Your Purse Touch the Floor Never Stick Your Chopsticks Straight Up
    In Brazil, putting your purse or wallet on Poking chopsticks down into your food is a big
    the floor means you'll become penniless.
    no-no in Japan. The utensils look like the
    So, even if you packed your whole closet
    unlucky number four, which means death, and
    in your tote, you better keep it off the
    floor.
    also the incense sticks used at funerals.
    Another tip: Don't point your chopsticks at

    GERMANY anyone. That's just plain rude.

    Don't Cheers With Water


    A German superstition declares that if you
    SYRIA
    Don't Play With Yo-Yos
    cheers with water you're actually wishing
    Syria banned Yo-Yos in 1933
    death upon the people you're drinking with.
    over fear that they would
    The idea stems from Greek mythology.
    cause a drought. The jury is
    still out on fidget spinners.

    CANADAPregnant Women Should RWANDA


    Give In to Their Cravings
    Eating Goat Meat Could Get Hairy
    There's a Canadian superstition that
    Superstitious women in Rwanda don't
    expectant mothers who are craving
    eat goat meat over fear that it will
    fish but don't eat it will end up
    cause them to grow facial hair.
    having a baby with a fish head.
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    1. TO NIBBL
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    8. FRIGID
    9. TO POKE
    10. UTENSILS
    TASK 1
    2. TOTE GUESS THE MEANINGS OF
    FROM 11. INCENSE STICKS
    3. TO STEM THE WORDS FROM THE
    IN (TO) 12. DROUGHT CONTEXT AND MATCH THEM
    4. TO GIVE
    5. CRAVING 13. FIDGET SPIN
    NER WITH THEIR DEFINITIONS
    ONG ANSWERS BELOW ⬇️
    6. TO PROL
    ORK
    7. NEEDLEW
    a. to push something with a finger or pointed object
    b. to make something last longer than usual
    c. thin wooden sticks coated with scented material that
    release fragrance when burned
    d. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a
    shortage of water
    e. extremely cold or lacking warmth or enthusiasm
    f. an intense desire for something
    g. tools or objects used for cooking or eating food
    h. to develop or come from something
    i. decorative sewing or embroidery done by hand
    j. a small toy consisting of a ball bearing in the centre of a flat
    structure designed to spin around its axis with little effort
    k. to surrender or yield to someone or something
    l. a large bag with handles, used for carrying things
    m. to take small bites or eat slowly and steadily

    TASK 2 e 13
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    .b 0

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    7.

    SUPERSTITIONS WITH
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    THE COUNTRIES
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    KEYS: 1.a 2.l

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