Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - Feeling lucky? for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Listen again. What do the speakers say about the topics below?

Answer

  1. Rhode Island → Maureen Wilcox would have won the Rhode Island lottery with her Massachusetts numbers and vice versa.
  2. 1993 → Lawyer John Woods escaped the bombing of the Twin Towers in 1993 and 2001.
  3. being robust and resilient → 'Lucky' people don't give up when things go wrong.
  4. having boundless optimism → 'Lucky' people expect to win the lottery more often. They believe they will win, so they keep playing.
  5. failed business ventures → Some people are good at making a business work (they 'have the knack'). Others go from one failed business venture to another.
  6. developing drive and focus → The business training was not the usual business motivational training, but was designed to make people think and behave like 'lucky' people.
  7. sales figures → The company's sales figures increased by 20% each month.
  8. a particular colour → One man breaks his routine by thinking of a particular colour when on his way to a party, and then only speaking to people wearing that colour.
  9. gifted children → There was an American high school experiment in which teachers were told that some children in their class were specially gifted. There was nothing remarkable about the children. However, the teachers gave these children extra praise and encouragement, and as a result, the children performed better at school.