Деньги - Money. Невежина С.Б - 29 стр.

underneath me – and the other passengers started reaching for their                        3. Green kryptonite (paragraph 3) is ...
bags and giving me a wide berth.                                                             a) a type of Indian food.
       7. My ship was coming in, all right, but holed beneath the                            b) the only effective weapon against Superman.
waterline, covered in barnacles, and with the rigging looking like                           c) explosive material.
something out of a bodice-ripper. I felt a bit silly. My shining hour was                  4. Harvey Nicks (paragraph 4) is ...
gone, my coach had turned into a pumpkin, and although £1,700 is not                         a) an expensive department store in London.
to be sneezed at, there will be no BMW for me – more like a BMX –                            b) a burger bar.
and the diamond-encrusted Cartier collar for my new Border collie                            c) a village near London.
will have to wait.                                                                         5. The Solent (paragraph 5) is ...
       8. Oh, well, I'm still the only person I know who's ever won the                      a) the water between the Isle of Wight and the British
Lottery. And anyway, 'spend-spend-spend Carinthia' just doesn't sound                        mainland.
quite right.                                                                                 b) the centre of British telecommunications.
                                                                                             c) a place on a ferry.
      3. Work with a partner. Discuss these questions:                                     6. My coach had turned into a pumpkin (paragraph 7).
       1. How did she feel when she found out that she had won? And                          Here the writer is ...
when she found out how much she had won?                                                     a) talking about vegetables.
       2. What would she have spent the money on if she had won the                          b) referring to the story of Cinderella.
                                                                                             c) referring to a common problem people have with
jackpot? Would you have bought the same things?
                                                                                             their coaches.
       3. What do you think she will buy with the money she did win?
                                                                                           7. A BMX (paragraph 7) is...
What would you do with that amount of money?
                                                                                             a) a cheap version of the BMW.
       4. What do you think Carinthia is like? What social class do you
                                                                                             b) a train service.
think she belongs to? Why?                                                                   c) a bike.
                                                                                           8. A Border collie (paragraph 7) is ...
      LEXIS
                                                                                             a) a designer shirt.
     1. The writer assumes the reader has the same back-                                     b) a breed of dog.
ground knowledge as herself. Do this quiz and see how much                                   c) a woman who helps with the cooking and cleaning.
you have in common with Carinthia.
                                                                                  2. Check your answers (File 5).
      QUIZ      1. The Centre Court (paragraph 1) refers to ...
                   a) an important court of law.                                  3. The writer uses a selection of descriptive verbs. Find the
                   b) a famous theatre.                                     verbs in the text which mean:
                   c) a tennis court at Wimbledon.                                a) to look at very closely (paragraph 1)
                2. A Spice Girl (paragraph 2) is ...                              b) to hold very tightly (paragraph 1)
                   a) a girl who likes excitement.                                c) to move in a disorganised manner (paragraph 3)
                   b) a member of the pop group 'The Spice Girls'.                d) to become less or die down (paragraph 4)
                   c) a female British spy.                                       e) to move quietly and secretly (paragraph 6)
                                                                                  f) to move quickly (paragraph 6)
                                                                                  g) to leave quietly or slowly (paragraph 7)
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