This document discusses several common superstitions related to faith. It states that if a woman dreams of being in church listening to a preacher or dreams of white linen, she will marry a preacher. It also mentions superstitions about dreaming of churches, knives or dishrags falling, opening the Bible to certain words, rainbows, shooting stars, the date of August 1st, burning food while cooking, silence in a room, and babies smiling in their sleep. The document provides explanations for several of these superstitions.

1. Reading skill
Unit: Culture
Topic: Local wisdom
Sub topic: Superstitions

2. Step on a crack, break
your mother's back

3. If your ear is ringing someone is
talking about you

4. Don’t cut a baby’s hair
before his-her first birthday

5. Sunshine,Raining, and Thunder
at the same time- The devil is
beating his wife

6. If you keep making funny
faces, one day it will get stuck
that way

7. If your palm is itching that
means that you are coming into
some money

8. Don’t talk on the phone or turn
on the TV while it is thundering
and lightning

9. Don’t put your purse on the
floor or you’ll stay broke

10. Don’t go to the zoo when you
are pregnant

11. Fish dreams means that
someone is having a baby

12. - Can you go to the zoo
when you are pregnant?
b
- If you dream about fish
what will happen?
b
- Which superstition do
you believe in?

14. bible (N.)

15. preacher (N.)

16. linen (N.)

17. church (N.)

18. dishrag (N.)

20. Conditional Sentence (If Clause) Type 1
In a Type 1 conditional sentence, the tense in
the 'if' clause is the simple present, and the
tense in the main clause is the simple future
 The time in this conditional sentence is
the present or future and the situation is real.
They refer to a possible condition and
its probable result. They are based on facts, and
they are used to make statements about the
real world, and about particular situations.

21. Form
'IF' CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE
(CONDITION) (RESULT)
If Present simple Future simple
Subject + V. 1 Subject + will + V. 1

22. Example
- If you see a rainbow, you will have
good fortune.
- If you open the Bible after you
have made a wish and you find the
words “And it came to pass” under
your finger, your wish will come
true.

23. Superstitions about faith
A woman who dreams she is in church listening to
a preacher will marry one. The same is true if she
dreams of white linen.
If you dream of church, it means your enemies are
about, or your habits need changing.
If a knife or a dishrag falls to the floor, the preacher
is coming.
If you open the Bible after you have made a wish
and you find the words “And it came to pass” under
your finger, your wish will come true. It’s bad luck to
place something on top of the Bible, or to lose one.

24. If you see a rainbow, say the Lord’s Prayer and
you’ll have good fortune.
A star shooting in the sky means someone has
died. If it shoots to the right, that person has gone to
heaven; if it shoots to the left, he’s gone to hell.
Don’t do anything important on August 1. That is
the day the devil was kicked out of heaven, and he
always messes up people’s plans on that day.
If someone burns food while cooking, he is
feeding the devil. A sudden silence in a room of talking
people means an angel is passing through.
If a baby smiles while asleep, angels are talking to
it.

25. While-reading
Activity 1
(alphabet cards game)

26. 1.) Work in pair.
2.) Read the story for three minutes.
3.) The representative chooses a sign from the
board to select the meaning of the vocabulary.
4.) Each pair gets the alphabet cards and alphabet-
tables.
5.) Then read the meaning of the vocabulary and order
the word from alphabet cards and stick to the
alphabet-tables (two minutes).
6.) Send your work to the box and check the answer
together.
7.) The group that has the most words will have a
chance to open the sign to get the reward.

28. someone whose occupation
is preaching the gospel

29. a cloth that use to wash and
clean the dishes

30. a book of Christianity or
collection of writings
constituting the sacred
text of a religion

31. a fabric woven with fibers
from the flax plant, used to
make high quality
clothes, sheets, etc.

32. a place where Christian go
to do many activities

33. the place believed to be
the home of God
where good people go
when they die

34. the process of preparing and
providing food

35. a situation when people do not
make any noise or sound

36. a chance or luck both of good and
bad that can happen to people

37. a thing that you often do
especially something that is
hard to stop doing

38. 1.preacher

39. 2.dishrag

40. 3.bible

41. 4.linen

42. 5.fortune

43. 6.heaven

44. 7.church

45. 8.cooking

46. 9.silence

47. 10.habit

48. While-reading
Activity 2
(personal superstition)

49. 1.) Thinking of your own superstition, prepare by
finding the reasons to support about why do you
believe that superstition and how? (you can take
note to guide in the presentation)
2.) Present to class and randomly select your friend to
comment about does he/she believe in your
superstition or not and why?
3.) The selected person shows his/her idea and asks the
others who believe or not believe to raise their
hand.
4.) Present your superstition to class.
5.) Take turn.

50. Guideline to present the superstition
My superstition is…………………………………
……………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………..
I believe in this superstition because…….
……………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………..

51. Guideline for the critic
I agree/disagree with the superstition
because……………………………….………………………
……………………………………………………………………
And I think it is……………………………………………..
……………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………….

52. Superstitions about faith
A woman who dreams she is in church listening to
a preacher will marry one. The same is true if she
dreams of white linen.
If you dream of church, it means your enemies are
about, or your habits need changing.
If a knife or a dishrag falls to the floor, the preacher
is coming.
If you open the Bible after you have made a wish
and you find the words “And it came to pass” under
your finger, your wish will come true. It’s bad luck to
place something on top of the Bible, or to lose one.

53. If you see a rainbow, say the Lord’s Prayer and
you’ll have good fortune.
A star shooting in the sky means someone has
died. If it shoots to the right, that person has gone to
heaven; if it shoots to the left, he’s gone to hell.
Don’t do anything important on August 1. That is
the day the devil was kicked out of heaven, and he
always messes up people’s plans on that day.
If someone burns food while cooking, he is
feeding the devil. A sudden silence in a room of talking
people means an angel is passing through.
If a baby smiles while asleep, angels are talking to
it.