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Seer's science means trusting animal instincts

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Many people believe in astrology and read the newspaper daily to check on horoscope predictions for their lives.

On today's Practice Listening programme, you will hear information about three animal signs from Chinese astrology.

If you, or one of your friends, was born under one of these signs, then you may want to gauge whether the information given is accurate.

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Tune in to RTHK's Radio 4 from 6.30 pm to 7 pm on MHz 97.6 - 98.9 M Stereo and, as you listen to the programme, have this page open in front of you.

The answers to the listening tasks will be given over the air.

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Practice Listening is designed to help senior secondary school students develop their listening skills. The two main kinds of horoscopes are the Western zodiac - based on star constellations - and the Chinese horoscope, which is based on the 12 animals which came to farewell Buddha before he left the Earth.

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