Деньги - Money. Невежина С.Б - 4 стр.

       MONEY...                                                                   Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it
       It can buy you a House, but not a Home,                              is a good servant but a bad master. (Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille,
       It can buy you a Bed, but not Sleep,                                 1852)
       It can buy you a Clock, but not Time,
       It can buy you a Book, but not Knowledge,                                   WRITING
       It can buy you a Position, but not Respect,                                 Look through the list of sayings (File 2). Choose one you
       It can buy you Medicine, but not Health,                             like the best or the one that relates to your experience. Make up a
       It can buy you Blood, but not Life,                                  composition (the plan in File 3 may be helpful).
       It can buy you Sex, but not Love,
                                                                                  READING
       So you see, money isn't everything.
                                                                                  Before reading discuss with the class:
       The best things in life can't be bought, and often we destroy our-
                                                                                  How important is money to you personally?
selves trying!
                                                                                  Do you see money as fundamentally good or evil?
       I tell you all this because I am your Friend,
       And as your Friend I want to take away your needless pain and
suffering...                                                                    NO NEED TO APOLOGISE FOR BMWs OR BLONDES1
       So send me all your money and I will suffer for you.                                    Mary Ellen Synon
       A truer Friend than me you will never find.                                 Making money solves most problems, and in Ireland today,
       Cash only, please…                                                   plenty of men are making plenty of money. The only reasonable re-
                                                                            sponse is a cry of 'Well done.' Yet instead we are hearing complaints
      2. Give a definition to the word 'cash '.
                                                                            that too many Irish are now making too much money. We are hearing
      3. Divide all the nouns into countable and uncountable.
Make up your own sentences with these words.                                accusations of greed, and criticism about pressure. Why?
      4. Give your Russian version of this poem (in prose or in                    Because there are people who are envious, mean-spirited, and
poetry).                                                                    incapable. And when they see other people enchanted with making
                                                                            money, they can only hiss and begrudge. One could say their com-
      B. In teams agree or disagree with these statements giving            plaints are pettiness and ought to be ignored.
your arguments on each point:                                                      But I believe it is more than just begrudgery. And I believe there
       When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same             is danger. For, although there is no more virtuous activity than making
religion. (Voltaire)                                                        money, even the Irishmen who do it best do not seem to understand
       People's wealth and worth are very rarely related. (Malcolm          why it is such a good thing.
Forbes (1919–1990))                                                                Certainly they know that making money makes their life better.
       There are people who have money and people who are rich.             But they have no understanding of the morality of what they are doing.
(Coco Chanel)                                                               You can hear their uncertainty when they talk about their work. An
       We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the         industrialist says he has been 'lucky' and points to how many jobs his
rules. (Buzzie Bavasi)                                                      industry has created: but wealth is never built by luck, it is built by
       Wealth is the product of man's ability to think. (Ayn Rand           brains. And the point of industry is profit.
(1905–1982))                                                                       You know a man understands the morality of money when he
       A penny saved is a penny earned. (Benjamin Franklin)                 says, 'I had the idea for this factory. I took the risk, put in the long

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