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1. Look back at the suggestions in the Pre-reading task.
Have you changed your mind about any of them?
2. Answer the questions:
a. Does the magazine article talk more about the positive side of winning a lot of
money, or the negative side?
b. How can a large amount of money affect…
…our work? …our home? …our friends?
c. How does the article say money can be 'frittered away'?
d. The following groups are mentioned in the article:
charities, relatives, lawyers, security guards, psychotherapists.
Which of them is speaking in the following lines?
'Tell me about your relationship with your father'.
'Twenty pounds will feed a family for a month. Please, give generously'.
'Now, John, you know you've always been my favourite nephew'.
'Sorry, sir. You can't go any further without permission'.
'I strongly advise you to take them to court'.
e. Give three facts each about the lives of Val Johnson, Alice Hopper, and Malcom
Price.
f. In the imaginary family that has won £1 million, who says, 'It won't change us?’
Who says, 'I want it to change us'?
g. What do the children want to have? What does the neighbour want?
h. Who in the family doesn't buy anything? What do the others buy?
— Speaking
Discuss the following points with your partner:
1. In what way is our life like a jigsaw?
2. How does winning a large amount of money smash the jigsaw?
3. Why do we need work in our lives?
In the story of the family that has won £1million, what is the joke about the toilet seat? What does he mean when he says, ‘It won't change us’? What does his wife want to change?
What for you are the answers to the questions in the last paragraph of ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’?
Exercise 1
Find a word or words in the text that mean the same as the following definitions. They are in the same order as they appear in the text.
| a. not often b. very big c. break violently d. area around your house e. asking (for something) very strongly f. keep (something) safe, defend | g. a time when you go to the shops and spend a lot of money h. having not a penny i. basic things to eat like bread, sugar, vegetables j. a hole through which water gets in |
Exercise 2
Translate it into English.
1. Мабуть, кожен з нас десь глибоко в душі бажає стати міліонером, мати владу грошей, купатись у багатстві, дозволяти собі жити розкішно, а потім через деякий час задумується, невже цього досить, щоб бути щасливим.
2. То був не сон, а справжнісінька реальність, коли Марк почув своє ім'я, коли оголошували по телебаченню переможців національної лотереї.
3. Як же використати гроші, які так несподівано і щедро з'явились у вашому гаманці? Можна поїхати у навколосвітню подорож, придбати нерухомість або перерахувати кругленьку суму в якийсь благодійний фонд.
4. Надмірна кількість грошей псує людину. Вона витрачає їх на всі боки, не знає, як ними розумно скористатись і, врешті-решт, може навіть збанкрутувати.
5. В багатьох східних країнах азартні ігри заборонені законом, і, можливо в цьому є певний сенс, адже, отримуючи величезні гроші, людина переживає стрес, а що може бути гіршим, ніж розчарування про невиграні гроші!
— Speaking
Discuss the following points with your group-mates.
1. How much money do you need to say: “ I’ve made money! I’m rich!”
2. How do people get rich?
3. Who deserves to be rich?
4. How does money affect and change people?
5. Which ways of making money are honest? Which not?
Do the quiz, write three more questions to ask other members of the class and discuss your answers with them, invent your own scoring system.
The “ Will you ever be rich?” test
1. Someone asks you to lend them 5 hryvnyas. Do you …..
a) refuse?
b) lend them the 5 hryv?
c) lend them 50 hryv, as they are more likely to remember to pay you back?
2. After one week, they haven’t returned your 5 hryv. Do you …
a) bring the matter up casually in conversation?
b) demand your money back?
c) forget it?
3. You win $ 1 m in a lottery. Do you ……
a) invest it?
b) give most of it to charity?
c) go on a spending spree?
4. You find a wallet full of dollars. Do you….
a) hand it to the police?
b) if possible, contact the owner?
c) pocket the money?
5. You haven’t had a rise in salary/pocket money etc. for a long time. Do you ……
a) confront your boss/parents?
b) make gentle hints?
c) wait for them to bring the subject up?
Listening
Find out the meaning of the following words and phrases. Explain it to your neighbour.
| source of income to attract a lot of publicity | libellous things to reappear miraculously | food for thought life insurance |
Listen to a totally over-the-top woman being interviewed on how she became so fantastically rich and answer these questions:
1. Where was she born?
2. What led her to cross the border? At what age did she do this?
3. Does she enjoy swimming in champagne?
4. How many times has she been married? Is she married now?
5. Was her first husband 60 years older than her?
6. Have many newspapers had to give Dolores a lot of money for printing supposedly libellous stories about her?
7. What other methods has Dolores used to get money?
8. What is her dream?
— Speaking
Discuss the following points with your group-mates:
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