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Global View - Urban Legends (C0360)

A: Have you read all these crazy things that are going on around the world?

B: What do you mean?

A: I was reading about how some people get tricked

or drugged in their hotel rooms and have their organs removed! Then they are sold onthe black

market.

B: Don’t tell me you actually believe all that? Don’t

beso gullible, they are just urban legends. They

are just stories people make up to scare you.

A: Well, I was also reading about how some popular

songs have subliminal or even satanic messages

if you play them backwards! Can you believe that?

B: You really think an artist or songwriter is going to

go through the trouble of putting subliminal or satanic messages in a song? Don’t beso naive!

A: Well maybe you are right, but how about the story

of how KFC has rows of headless chickens which

are super grown in order to get bigger chickens

faster!

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c 2011 Praxis Language Ltd.B: Sounds a bit too far fetched to be true don’t you

think?

Key Vocabulary

black

market

N any system in which

goods are sold and

bought ille

gullible A easily believing something that is not true

urban

legend

N stories that are exaggerated or not true

make up P invent

subliminal N something that persuades in a sub conscious way

satanic A relating to Satan or the

devil

naive A having or showing a

lack of experience,

judgment,

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c 2011 Praxis Language Ltd.far

fetched

A improbable; not naturally pertinent

Supplementary Vocabulary

Myth N an untrue story

boogie

man

N a fictional being that

scares children

cynical A a person who believes

that only selfishness

motivates human actions

grounded A quality of not letting

emotions or impulses

get the best of you

realist N a person who tends to

view or represent things

as they really are.

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c 2011 Praxis Language Ltd.