Gambling

Unit 1: Video and Photograph

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intermediate lesson plan - theatre picture of actors jumping into the air.

1. What was happening in the video clip? How were people tricked?
2. What is happening in the photograph?
3. What is your all time favourite movie? What was it about?
4. Do you think films can be educational? How?

An Idiom

The dices are loaded against
If the dice is loaded against someone, it means that are unlikely to succeed.

The dices are loaded at against you of winning if you play the lottery.

Unit 2: Reading Comprehension

Some people consider gambling as a form of recreation and fun. However, there are some people, known as compulsive gamblers, who cannot stop gambling. Many compulsive gamblers hope to one day win a fortune. But in reality they usually go broke. The odds are not against them winning. Compulsive gamblers cannot stop betting on horses, or spending thousands of dollars at the casino. But it's the bookmakers who win, and the casino houses that profit. Many religious authorities disapprove of gambling in general, and some islamic countries even prohibit gambling. However the government earns a lot of money through taxation from gambling, and this has led to the legalisation of gambling in some countries such as Macau.

Vocabulary Practice

Gambling - a game involving high risk and high returns.
Compulsive gamblers - a person who cannot stop gambling.
Fortune - a large amount of wealth.
Broke - to lack money.
Odds - the likelihood that something will occure rather than not occure.
Betting - the act of gambling on something.
Casino - a place for gambling.
Bookmakers - a person who accepts and pays of bets.
Prohibit - not allowed.
Legalisation - to make something lawful.