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Ijessons 1 -2 How materialistic are you?

  1. A. Correct the mistakes in the questions below.

  • Underline the wrong word / phrase or put a tide if a word is missing.

  • W

    makes

    rite the correct / missing one on the empty line.

What make young people materialistic?

People become less materialistic when they grow up?

Have you ever try not to be materialistic?

Does music promotes materialism?

Are you believe that the situation will change in the near future? Wanted you designer labels when you was younger?

Write appropriate questions for the following answers.

  1. used to but now I don’t.

A hundred roubles per week.

Two months ago.

I've always wanted to.

  1. hardly ever buy them.

В. Choose the best answers for the questions beiow.

  1. What kind of text is it?

  1. report

  2. letter

  3. announcement

  4. speech

  1. What is the message of the text?

  1. to criticise teenage materialism

  2. to inform people about the problem

  3. to instruct teenagers how to succeed in life

  4. to encourage teenagers to achieve their aims

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

IHfc 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 Venicc, 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 th s 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.

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He очень убедительными кажутся слова о том, что из уст такого человека, как Бред Питт, который явно не 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,

чтобы . Питт посмеялся над

слухами о том, что сказав, что

  1. Rewrite each sentence beginning or ending as shown, so that the meaning remains the same.

  1. Today lots of people with degrees find it hard to find employment.

Finding

  1. It's important to talk to other people.

Talking

  1. Today there is no way any student could possibly live on a government grant. Living

  2. Students often get into debt and this causes them problems.

Getting into debt

  1. It is my dream to find a well-paid job.

finding a well-paid job.

  1. Read the text and fill in the gaps with the words from the box.

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inside

expensive

behind

damp

areas

leisure

poverty

high

countryside

hose in (1) are likely to fall (2)

with rent or other payments. They are likely to live in the worst housing conditions in

{3} , overcrowded buildings.

The poorest groups live in the most deprived (4) with the

worst schools, problems of crime, etc. However, we should remember that it is not just inner cities that have (5) levsls of poverty; some of the

worst poverty is in the (6)

There is no money for (7) or social activities 85 per cent

of free time is spent (8) the horns, as "normal” social activi­

ties are too (9)

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