Premonitions
PREMONITIONS
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- What do you think is the most important quality in a partner?
파트너에게 가장 중요한 자질은 무엇이라고 생각하시나요? - Do you believe in love at first sight?
첫눈에 반하는 사랑을 믿으시나요?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
When it comes to the ESP, I'm an agnostic. I neither deny nor affirm the existence of realities outside the mundane, but a couple of days ago, I had this strange experience that made a believer out of me. I had a dream and that dream came true. The details of the dream need not be told, but I'm telling you that it was a premonition. I was intrigued, and I started asking my friends if they have had experiences that bordered on the supernatural or the occult. The stories started pouring out.
Here are a few:
Hana
" I live in an apartment overlooking a busy boulevard. On afternoon, as I was washing dishes, a vision hit me. In my mind's eye, I saw a flowerpot from the rooftop of my building fall down to the boulevard below, and hit a man on the head. Then my mind cleared, and I was back to washing dishes. That same day, an ambulance rushed a man to the ER. He was dead upon arrival. Hit on the head with a flowerpot." I'm not skeptical about omens and previsions. I don't know exactly how it works, but when I have a bad feeling about something, I count that as a harbinger of doom, so I'm alert."
Carla
It scares me sometimes how frequently my dreams become realities. My most recent encounter with the bizarre??was just a few days ago when I dreamed of a colleague??telling me about this "situation" ( this is too confidential to mention. hahaha). Well, what do you know, it came true the next couple of days! This may be trifling but, if I count all the times I had premonitions, then it sounds weird. I don't want to explore my psychic powers: I may be opening a Pandora's box of nightmares. I think that this world is
intertwined with whatever world is "out there", and dreams are the portals where reality here and and reality in the "beyond" connect.
Clark
" Dejavus for me are so common they aren't worthy news. What amazes me is how I could be aware of something I have never sensed previously. Say, I'm walking on this street and I see this sight and I go like," Haven't I seen this before?" I'm pretty sure I hadn't or I wouldn't be that surprised. I don't give much stock to these so called paranormal events. They must have a rational explanation or something, only science hasn't uncovered them yet.
Anyway, whenever I have one of these weird feelings that something bad is going to happen, or that there is something wrong in this picture of a man standing by this alley, then I follow my gut feeling and stay clear. It's better to be safe than sorry!
This may be beside the point but I think that instinct should be given more credibility than reason. Reason is clouded by education and experience which dulls it. Instinct has the advantage of being primitive, thus it's the best sidekick of common sense. Am I rambling?
Comprehension Check
Answer the questions about what you read.
읽은 내용에 대한 질문에 답해 보세요.
- What was Hana's premonition?
- Do you think that examples given by the author's friends were true?
- Do you believe that instinct is better than reason? Why or why not? ESP: Extra-sensory Perception; communication or perception by means other than the physical senses. agnostic: One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something mundane: Relating to or characteristic of the earth or of human life on earth premonition: A warning in advance; a forewarning. occult: Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural influences, agencies, or phenomena. rambling: tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects Examples:1) I'm afraid to have an ESP because I might see things that are incomprehensible.
- An agnostic does not deny the existence of God and heaven but holds that one cannot know for certain whether or not they exist.
- Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. ? Bill Moyers.
- I had a premonition last night
- Did you ever have a premonition?Tell something about it.
- Do you believe in the paranormal? Why or why not?
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
"mystery"는 명사이고, 형용사는 "mysterious"입니다. be동사 뒤에는 형용사를 써야 합니다.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
- What was the most surprising thing you learned about premonitions from this passage?
이 지문에서 premonitions에 대해 가장 놀라웠던 점은 무엇인가요? - How does the topic of premonitions affect your daily life?
premonitions 주제가 당신의 일상에 어떻게 영향을 미치나요? - Do you agree with the main argument presented in the reading? Why or why not?
읽기 자료에 제시된 주요 주장에 동의하시나요? 왜 그런가요, 왜 아닌가요? - If you could share one idea from this lesson with a friend, what would it be?
이 수업에서 친구에게 공유하고 싶은 한 가지 아이디어는 무엇인가요?
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: PREMONITIONS
Level: High Intermediate (H.I)
Review this lesson before your next class! / 다음 수업 전에 복습하세요!