vocabulario 5 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

lottery ticket: The lottery or loto is a gambling game that can be developed openly to the public through tickets and raffles or developed as a table game consisting of cards and decks.

In 1910 there were only fifty-three lottery ticket sellers in Madrid.

wish: feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable; want something that cannot or probably will not happen.

Eliminate the words wish, hope and maybe from your vocabulary.

pick up: Car closed at the front and open at the back.

Leave the hostel, pick up your bags and come home.

lucky objects: an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck.

This selective memory creates a very real connection between their lucky objects and their winning games.

believe: accept (something) as true; feel sure of the truth of.

Even so, the majority believe that their status is improving.

superstition: excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings.

If we begin to generalize the signs, they turn into superstition.

good luck: used to express wishes for success.

And by good luck, health and many wonderful experiences of travel.

bad luck: an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.

A believer knows that good and bad luck do not exist.

walking under a ladder:the triangle is used to represent the holy trinity (the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit), so it was believed that walking under the ladder was blasphemous.

With a bit of research we can find that walking under a ladder may have had esoteric meanings, but it was dangerous if someone working on top

throwing a coin in afountain: supposed to ensure good health.

If you want a wish to come true, you must throw a coin into a fountain.

spilling salt: A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen. However, salt has had a variety of meanings in religions around the world.

Avoid spilling salt on the surface of the electric hob.

seeing a falling star: good luck, a significant change in your life, or even the ending of something.

They say if you make a wish seeing a falling star. Your wish will be fulfilled.

putting new shoes on a table:someone had just died, or you would have bad luck for the rest of the day, quarrel with someone or lose your job.

I have to put new shoes on a table

opening an umbrella indoors: an irrational practice or belief that stems from a mistaken understanding of the cause of an event.

They say that opening an umbrella indoors will bring you bad luck.

knocking on wood: Express a wish that something will or will not occur.

That's when I started knocking on wood.

killing a ladybug: Killing a lady bug, of course, is considered bad luck and should be avoided at all costs, according to superstition

killing a ladybug is bad.

finding a penny: It represents new beginnings, the start of a new chapter and a fresh start.

my cousin finding a penny

catching a falling leaf: if caught on the first day of autumn, a falling leaf could help you avoid a cold or sickness throughout the whole of winter.

my brother catch a falling leaf

carrying a rabbit's foot: In some cultures, the foot of a rabbit is carried as an amulet believed to bring good luck.

my granny carrying a rabbit's foot

breaking a mirror: If you break a mirror, it is said that you will suffer seven years of bad luck.

The old superstition that breaking a mirror brings bad luck is because some believed that there is a distortion of energy that causes a broken or bruised surfac