12. Complete each sentence with one of the following words or phrases:

• pleasure • costs • wine • music • economists and marketers

1. Price of a product influences the … we get from a product.

2. … is worldwide presented in many different qualities and prices.

3. Some brain sections process the experience of enjoyment from smells, taste and ….

4. A study finds that a $90 wine is not as tasty when it … only $10.

5. Some … think that raising the price of a product can increase how much a product is enjoyed.

Speaking

13. The following are some quotes about wine. Think about these statements and decide how you feel about each one. Do you think they are true? If not why not? Share your thoughts with your partner.

• ”Wine causes anger’’ (Seneca).

• ”In victory I deserve Champagne, in defeat I need it!” Napoleon Bonaparte

• ”In wine there is truth” (Plato).

• ”Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne!” (Winston S. Churchill, 1918).

• ”When the wine goes in strange things come out” (Shiller).

UNIT VIII

BUSINESS AND AGRICULTURE

Warm-up Activities

1. Discuss the following with your partner:

What do you think about raising animals for meat and fur? Explain your answer choice.

• It’s a regular way to get food and clothes

• I would never do it myself

• It can be only possible in some areas where people can not live without meat and warm clothes

• It should never be the way

• I have never thought about it

Vocabulary

room - место, пространство

return – зд. доход, прибыль

male – зд. самец

female – зд. самка

supply - снабжение, поставка

wastes – отходы

mating - спаривание; скрещивание

fur – мех

skill - искусство, мастерство; умение

skin – зд. мех, шкура, кожа (животного)

tanner - дубильщик, кожевник

pet - любимое домашнее животное

manure - навоз, компост, удобрение

fertilizer – удобрение

soil - грунт, земля, почва

flowering plant - цветущее растение

raise – выращивать, разводить

weigh – весить

improve – улучшать

2. Match the words with the definitions:

air city sun wood grass wire container fence excellent material

any important large town the solid material of which trees are made a long, thin piece of metal used to hang objects or to carry electricity or electronic communications from one place to another something around an area of land to keep animals or people in or out the substance, substances or matter of which something is made or from which something can be made, such as wood, cloth or stone; anything that can be made into something else the mixture of gases around the earth, mostly nitrogen and oxygen, that we breathe the huge star in the sky that provides heat and light to earth a plant with long, narrow, green leaves a box, bottle or can used to hold something extremely good

listening