3. R ead this newspaper article and complete the sentences in Russian to give the sense of the article.

THE ART OF BEING A SUPERSTAR

We’ve all heard it before: “Looks aren’t everything." But somehow, the message is a little less convincing when it comes from the likes of Brad Pitt, who is not exactly lacking in the beauty department. Still, the guy who should be grateful for his ridiculously successful career said in a press conference at the Venice, Italy film festival that he’s sick of people placing importance on superficial (поверхностный) stuff. Brad agreed with a character in his new film, Fight Club, who comments on how people slave away at jobs they hate to buy stuff they don’t need. “I find this truly insidious (коварный) and damaging,” said Mr. Million-Dollar-Salary himself. He went on to demonstrate his lack of vanity (тщеславие) by laughing at rumours (слухи) that he’d protested about having to cut his hair for the movie. “Hair’s hair. It grows,” he said.

He очень убедительными кажутся слова О том, что из уст такого человека, как Бред Питт, который явно но страдает Однако на пресс-конференции в Италии он заявил, что

Актер-миллионер сказал, что он

считает пагубным то, как люди работают как проклятые на работах,

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Ijessons 5-6 Fighting for the “high” life?

1 A. Group the words from the list into two categories: those that refer to getting money and those that refer to giving it.

Some words fit both groups.

IN

OUT

to pay bill

to spend to borrow fine to earn to lend debts grant to save to waste currency cash

to economise

2. Fill in the gaps in the sentences with the words from the list in Ex. 1a.

• You don't need to use all the words.

1. I always phone bills in time.

2. We're hoping to get a from the local council for the project.

3. We soon got used to using Italian

4. I’ll give you fifty dollars in and pay the rest by cheque ater.

5. With his dinner, the came to about 15 dollars.

6. I got a $40 for speeding.

7. He was imprisoned for

8. We can’t on the central heating because the baby needs a

warm house.

9. How does he his living?

3. Choose the suitable alternative in each sentence.

1. I got a fine/debt for parking at a bus stop.

2. The family is in fine/debt and may lose their house.

3. I bought two dresses and a pair of shoes and I only spent/wasted 100 roubles.

4. Don't spend/waste your money on that old-fashioned dress.

5. Can I lend/borrow your pen for a minute?

6. Can you lend/borrow me 20 roubles till Friday?

2. Read the stories and put the verbs in brackets into the correct tenses.

(drive) (be / catch) (decide)

A Frenchman Robert Alois (1)

(make) $125,000 at the roulette table in Monte Carlo last week. But this (2) (have)

nothing to do with his gambling skills. He was awarded the money in compensation because a steel bail (3) (flow) off the wheel

and hit him in the eye.

Britons (1) (be) still very honest,

reports The Guardian. Last week, motorists on the M65 (2) (astonish)

when they (3) (see) that £10,000 in

cash (4) (come out)

of a motorbiker’s backpack. Oozens of drivers

5. (stop) to

pick up the cash until the police arrived. But the “marvellous thing", (6) (say) a

police spokeswoman, was that by the end of the day, every single note (7)

(hand back).

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A motorist near Denver (1) at a high speed when he (2) by a speed camera. He (3)

to play a joke on the police by mailing a photograph of two $20 bills to pay his $40 fine. But he

4. (change) his mind and

5. (pay) up in real cash after the police (6) (send) him a photo of a pair of handcuffs (наручники).

Two spinsters (старые девы) who (1) D

(bake) cakes for their local church for 18 years (2) (just leave) $27 million to a

charity, which (3) (support) youth

projects and schemes for the homeless. All these years they (4) (live) modestly in a flat

in north London. But neither friends nor neighbours

5. (know) that the ladies

6. (be) rich investors who

7. (turn) their in herited (унаследованное) wealth into multimillion pound fortunes.

Lessons 7-8 No shortcuts to success

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enthusiastic

self-confident

generous

ambitious

cheerful

pessimistic

selfish

reliable

narrow-minded

tolerant

snobbish

considerate

obstinate

greedy

flexible

domineering

lazy

IjPut the adjectives from this box into two groups: positive and negative.

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