Answer — Exercise 10
10.1 - Feeling lucky?·New Total English Advanced - Students' Book
Question
Read and complete the questionnaire from Richard Wiseman's book, The Luck Factor. Check you understand the underlined phrases.
Answer
- have a tendency to worry = tend to worry
- open to new experiences = happy to try out new things
- gut feelings and hunches = a feeling that you are sure is right although you cannot give a reason for it
- intuition = feelings rather than the facts
- to get what I want from life = decide what is important in life and obtain it
- chances of success seem slim = a strong possibility that this will not work
- look on the bright side = be optimistic
- work out well = a situation will turn out for the better
- in the long run = in the long term
- dwell on things = think for too long about something unpleasant