Lesson: How Casinos Work - The Simple Explanation

Conversation

Answer the following questions. You might be asked to write them down or answer them out-loud.

Have you ever gone to a Casino before? Where?
Did you win any money or anything? What?
What is your opinion about gambling?
Why is gambling addictive?
Should Casions be legal? Why?
Do you think that those who own and run casinos are criminals or con men?
Do you regard putting money in machines for prizes, at an amusement arcade, as gambling?
Do you play slot machines?

Vocabulary

Look at the vocabulary below. Take time to explore the links for their definitions in English and their translations to Portuguese. When you are done, make a sentence with each word. Ask your teacher if you should write them down or say them out loud.

d | t - bunch
d | t - great
d | t - pile
d | t - refer
d | t - lottery
d | t - push
d | t - buttons
d | t - lights
d | t - even
d | t - machine
d | t - loud
d | t - keep
d | t - conman
d | t - charge
d | t - bright
d | t - unfortunately
d | t - gamble

Video

Watch the following video but DON'T read the transcript yet.

After watching the video do this listening exercise.

Reading practice

Read the following transcript then do the associated reading comprehension exercise.

Transcript:

--->>> This is the story of cassions and how they work.

The story begins with a bunch o people,and these arent like any other people,they are people with money,and these people get a great idea, they decided to put all their money in a pile, and this pile is what we usually refer to as a cassino,some people also call it a lottery,now at the cassino these people play games not only that but they get to push buttons on the machines that have lights and sounds, sometimes some people even win the game and the machines make really loud sounds, when this happens it means that these people can keep some money from the pile, as you can imagine this makes those people very happy, everyone sees those people that are happy and they realise that putting their money in that pile is really a great idea, they want some money too,but the cassino has a charge for making people really happy,afterall nothing is free, and charges the rest of the money wich makes the cassino really happy, leaving no money for everyone else but there is hope because someday maybe they will be the one who pushes the button that makes the bright lights and loud sounds and they will get some money out of the pile but probably not.; Unfortunetelly this is the end of the story.

Writing practice

Write a couple of paragraphs ---->>>> instructions <<<<-----. Make sure to use words you learned from the text and try to make it as long as you can.