Luck

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: my lucky dayListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What really happened?Grammar exercise
10. 10The third conditionalGrammar rule
11. 11What if…?Grammar exercise
12. 12Say it naturallySpeaking practice
13. 13Turning pointsSpeaking practice
14. 14Let's discussDiscussion
15. 15Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: a different pastGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a lucky momentDiscussion

Words

• by chance/baɪ ˈtʃæns/

  without being planned

• opportunity/ˌɑːpərˈtuːnəti/

  a chance to do something good or useful

• unexpected/ˌʌnɪkˈspektɪd/

  surprising, because you did not think it would happen

• turn out/ˌtɜːrn ˈaʊt/

  to happen in a way you did not know or expect at first (it turned out that…)

• notice/ˈnoʊtɪs/

  to see or hear something and pay attention to it

• odds/ɑːdz/

  how likely it is that something will happen (the odds of winning)

• regret/rɪˈɡret/

  to feel sorry or sad about something you did or didn't do (also a noun)

• fate/feɪt/

  a power that some people believe decides what will happen

• discovery/dɪˈskʌvəri/

  finding something for the first time, or the thing you find

• take a risk/ˌteɪk ə ˈrɪsk/

  to do something that might be dangerous or might not work

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about luck and chance.

1. Are you a lucky person? Why do you think so?
2. Who is the luckiest person you know?
3. Have you ever found or won something by chance?

Grammar rule

The third conditional

If + had + past participle, would have + past participle

We use it to imagine a different past, and what would have happened then:

• If it hadn't rained, I wouldn't have gone into the coffee shop. (It rained, so I went in.)
• If I had known about the party, I would have come. (I didn't know, so I didn't come.)
• The if part can come second: I would never have met my boss if I hadn't missed the bus.

could have, might have

could have = would have been able to · might have = maybe would have: If Fleming had cleaned his lab, he might never have made his discovery.

Not If I would have known: in careful English, the if part has had + past participle. And it's would have, never would of, even though it sounds the same.