A.I.O UPPER U-5

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If she doesn’t perform her morning ceremony in exactly the right way, she won’t leave the house that day.

• crazy

• chanting

• superstitious

• ritual

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I can’t stay in this room because it’s number thirteen — I’m very convinced it will cause me bad luck.

• crazy

• chanting

• superstitious

• ritual

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What are you doing? Are you out of your mind?

• crazy

• chanting

• superstitious

• ritual

(Wedding) - Complete the text with the words

After the wedding, we threw (1) __________ over the newlyweds,

• bouquet

• chanting

• cake

• confetti

(Wedding) - Complete the text with the words

For the (2) __________ , we went to a restaurant on the beach. Daniel made a very funny (3) __________ ,

• church - cake

• service - confetti

• ceremony - speech

• cake - speech

Complete with the to-infinitive or a gerund form of the verbs in parentheses.

a) “Did you remember __________ (buy) some milk?” “No, I didn’t. Sorry.”

Complete with the to-infinitive or a gerund form of the verbs in parentheses.

b) At the top of the mountain, they stopped __________ (admire) the view.

Complete with the to-infinitive or a gerund form of the verbs in parentheses.

c) Could you please stop __________ (tap) your foot? It’s noisy.

Read and choose the best alternative:

The use of rituals and superstitions to ensure opening night goes smoothly has long been a part of theater tradition. Many actors perform their own private rituals, such as sleeping with the script under their pillows, or always whispering the same word before going on stage. But other superstitions are more widespread.

• The actors are not supertitiuous at all

• The majority of actors follow the same ritual.

• Superstitions are very common with actors in theater.

• Actors mention that supertitions are not traditional in the theater.

Read and choose the best alternative:

One of the most well-known superstitions concerns Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. Many actors won’t say the name of the play inside the theater. Instead they’ll call it “The Scottish play.” Saying the name of the play is supposed to bring bad luck, and curse the performance. In one episode of The Simpsons, the Simpson family meets the famous British Shakespearean actor, Sir Ian McKellen, outside a theater. Every time one of them says “Macbeth,” something bad happens to McKellen. He is even struck by lightning.

• If you say Macbeth in a theater is "good luck"

• The Simpsons family didn't say "Macbeth"

• If you say the Play's name something bad might happen

• So, the Simpson found the actor inside the theater