Базовый курс Часть 2 Учебное пособие Второе издание, переработанное Томск 2003 удк 628. 91
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UNIT 7MoneyWhat is your attitude to money? Is money important to you? I |
. Read the following text. Do you agree with the information given?| wealthy sell cheap pay cost save lose | rich poor generous bank millionaire mortgage spend | buy mean tax free inherit earn | stock exchange fortune stocks and shares expensive property price |
The Witch Of Wall Street
Hetty Robinson learnt all about money when she was very young. As a child, she read the financial pages of the newspaper to her wealthy father. Her father died when Hetty was 30 years old and she inherited $1 million. When she herself died in 1916, she left a fortune of almost $100 million to her two children.
Hetty made her money on the New York stock exchange. She was a financial genius. She made money so easily that people called her the Witch of Wall Street. But although she was one of the richest women in the world, she was very mean. She countered every cent and she spent as little as possible. She didn't own a house, because she didn't want to pay property taxes. So she and her children lived in cheap hotels.
She spent almost nothing on clothes, and wore the same long black dress every day. She washed it herself, but to save soap she only washed the bottom of the dress, where it touched the ground. Other people had their own offices, but Hetty used a desk in the bank where she kept her money, because it didn't cost anything. She sat in the bank and ate her sandwiches while she bought and sold stocks and shares. If the bank complained, she just moved all her money to another bank.
Hetty's family paid the price for her meanness. When she was 33 she married a millionaire, Edward Green and they had two children. Green, however, lost all his money, so Hetty left him. When her son, Ned, injured his knee, Hetty didn't want to pay for a doctor, so she took him to a free hospital for poor people. Unfortunately the doctor knew that Hetty was rich and he asked for money. Hetty refused and took the boy away. His leg didn't get better and two years later doctors removed it.
But eventually Ned got his revenge. At the age of 81 Hetty had an argument with a shop assistant about the price of a bottle of milk. She became so angry that she had a stroke and died. So Hetty's meanness finally killed her. Ned inherited half his mother's fortune, and he spent it all on parties, holidays and expensive jewellery. He even bought a chamber pot covered with diamonds.
V. Mark the sentences TRUE or FALSE according to the text. Correct the false sentences.
1.She knew a lot about finance when she was young.
2.She owned a big house.
3.She didn't have many clothes.
4.She sent her clothes to a laundry.
5.She rent an office in Wall Street.
6.She had lunch in restaurants.
7.She married a rich man.
8.She sent her son to the best hospital in New York.
9. She died in an accident.
10.Her son invested her money.
VI. Discuss these questions.
1.Give three reasons why Hetty was called the Witch of Wall Street.
2. What do you think is
-the worst example of Hetty's meanness?
-the funniest example of her meanness?
-the most interesting part of the story?
-the most ironic part of her life?
3. Why do you think Hetty was so mean?
It is important to know about British money
The monetary system was considerably simplified in 1971. Now the British Government issues the following banknotes:
one pound which is made up of 100 pence.
A five/ten/twenty-pound notes
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n informal speech they may be called a fiver or a tener. There is a slang word for a pound - a quid: five quid, ten quid. Besides there are the following coins in circulation in Great Britain:1/2 penny - a half-penny
1 penny - in informal speech penny is usually pronounced [pi:].
When we mean price we say «pence» instead of «penny»: five penny is a coin, five pence is a price.
Remember that British people as well as the Americans always use the word «money» in a singular form. (E.g. Twenty pounds isn’t enough.)
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