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Reading 2. Study the situation Lottery winners
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Lottery winners a) Which of these things do you expect people to do if they win a lottery "jackpot" (the biggest prize)? 1 give up their job / stay in the same job? 2 stay in their old house / buy a new house? 3 give away money to their family/keep all the money for themselves? 4 eat in expensive restaurants / almost never go out? b) Read this text about Bert Dunstan and mark the statements below T (True) or F (False). Two years ago Bert Dunstan won £12,000,000 on the National Lottery. Today he is dead. The 53-year-old factory worker was found lying lifeless on the sofa at his home last weekend. When Bert won his fortune, he immediately gave up his £200-a-week job at the local chocolate factory and bought a luxurious (тамаша) new house. However, he did not immediately head for the sun on a Caribbean holiday or a round-the-world cruise, as others have done; instead, he packed his family of seven into one of his new cars and took them camping in Scotland. Bert always liked his food and, instead of giving his only daughter, Sally, part of his winnings, he employed her as a full-time cook on a salary of £500 a week. "I used to cook him three big meals every day: burgers, steak and chips were his favorites." But Sally doesn't think Bert died through overeating: "He just seemed to lose interest in life." Chloe Godwin, a psychologist who specializes in the effects that winning a large amount of money can have on people, says "For some people the most terrible thing that can happen to them is change. This is why people have problems when they get married or pass exams. It's nice to win a few thousand pounds, but you shouldn't have so much that you move too far away from the life you've got." Certainly other lottery winners have had their problems: one of them left the country because of the publicity and because her family was aggressive over the money. Another left his wife of 40 years and gave her nothing the ticket was in his name, after all! Losing can be just as bad, though: Freddie McMahon actually went crazy when a group of people at his office won the jackpot - and he had refused to join them the week before. So, whichever way you look at it, you just can't win! 1. Bert died two years after winning the lottery. 2. He spent some of the money on a new car. 3. He only gave his daughter £500. 4. Sally thinks that Bert ate himself to death. 5. The psychologist says that people find it very difficult when they have big changes in their lives. 6. One person left the country partly because of her relative. 7. A husband and wife bought a winning lottery ticket together and then he left her. 8. Freddie McMahon went mad over a lottery ticket. жүктеу/скачать 2,92 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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