Listen to the text about the Irish economic miracle. Do the tasks.

Ireland Is The Best Country To Live In

Match the word to its definition

1. reverse a trend	a. it is not as exciting as you expected
2. a person of irish descent	b. a trend is reversed
3. check wage increases	c. stop people from earning more money
4. a switch	d. change a trend so that the opposite happens
5. a let-down	e. you’re no longer young and inexperienced
6. cheesed off	f. advertised or praised a lot
7. a buzz	g. a change
8. what really swung it for me	h. what made me decide to make a change
9. the tide has turned the other way	i. a person whose ancestors were irish
10. nigh on	j. almost that amount, number or age
11. anticlimax	k. an exciting atmosphere
12. hyped up	l. do not believe that it is completely true or accurate
13. you’ve been around the block a couple of times	m. a disappointment because sth has not happened in the way in which you expected it to happen
14. to take sth with a pinch of salt	n. annoyed, bored, disappointed

Fill in the blanks with the expressions from ex.1. Comment on the statements.

1. Tens of thousands of Irish people have been busy _______________ of a century and moving back to the land of their roots.

2. Over 70 mln ________________ are scattered around the globe.

3. I found myself getting a bit ________________with elements of the expatriate community in Boston.

4. There’s a real ____________ about the place and I’m pleased to be part of that.

5. What really __________ it for me was one day I heard a radio ad looking for English construction workers to go and work in Ireland!

6. I lived abroad for __________ 50 years and now I’m back I have to say it’ been a bit of an ___________. I can’t see what all the fuss is about.

7. Things have been ___________ more than they should’ve been. The Ireland I grew up in is dead and gone.

8. Folk like me who’ve ______________________ a couple of times know to ___________ a lot of the talk _____________.

Listen to the text about the Irish economic miracle. Do the tasks.

1. For over a 150 years, emigration had been part of the Irish way of life.

tens of thousands

3,5 mln

over 70 mln

Mass emigration occurred as a result of

- potato …..

- poverty and ……

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