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      3. Complete the sentences to make them true for you. Dis-               __How old is it?
cuss your sentences with a partner.                                           __How long have you had it?
      a) If I'd been born in a different country ...                          __Did somebody give it to you or did you acquire it yourself?
      b) If I'd been born a member of the opposite sex ...                    __What special significance does it have?
      c) If I'd had famous parents ...                                        __Did it belong to somebody else before?
      d) If I'd started learning English earlier in my life ...               __Does it remind you of a particular person? Who?
      e) If I'd listened to my parents advice when I was younger ...          __Does it remind you of a time or an event in the past?
      f) If I hadn't come to this English class today ...                     __What happened?
                                                                              __Where do you keep your treasured possession?
      TREASURED POSSESSIONS                                                   __Do you wear it, carry it around with you or does it have a spe-
                                                                       cial place in your home?
      LISTENING
                                                                              __Who will you leave it to when you die?
      1. T 10 Four people (Armando, Katie, Heather, Mike) are
talking about their treasured possessions. Listen and match the              Block 2
possessions (a–d) with the notes about the stories (1–4).                    PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY (1)
      1. Armando's typewriter
      2. Katie's wedding ring                                                LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT
      3. Heather's neck-warmer                                               EXPRESSING QUANTITY
      4. Mike's mobile phone
                                                                            1. Work in two groups. You will read a newspaper article
                                                                       about the same person. The information is similar, but not the
      a) mother – don't wear it – bedside table – remember – England
                                                                       same.
      b) expensive – e-mail – addresses and numbers – three hundred         Group A Read this article.
people                                                                      Group B Read the article in File 4.
      c) father's – composer and storyteller – Peruvian jungle – ten        Then answer the questions.
years – wrote
      d) saved life – avalanche – over face – mouth and nose –                  WOMAN WHO LEFT ENGLAND PENNILESS
breathe
                                                                                    IS NOW WORTH £20 MILLION8
      2. Listen again. Then work with a partner and try to recon-
struct the stories using the notes in 1.
                                                                             A British woman, who went to Australia with very little money
                                                                       four years ago, has sold her business for £20 million.
      SPEAKING                                                                Cherry Haines, 39, who once worked as a market stallholder,
       Think about your most treasured possession. You are going       made all of her fortune from marketing a new kind of make-up. She
to tell your partner about it. Choose from the following list the      left England because there wasn't much employment, caught a flight to
things you want to talk about. Think about what you will say           the other side of the world, and arrived with no qualifications and very
and the language you will need.                                        few friends.
      __What is your most treasured possession?                               'The flight took every penny I had. At first, I stayed with a
      __What's it made of?                                             friend. Then I had a bit of luck.' The friend gave her the name of Peter

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