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Comprehension check

1. What are we exhorted to by our society?

2. What are we told at school?

3. What did Gary Cooper find when he studied the lives of successful entrepreneurs?

4. What is the most certain route to riches?

5. What are you able to capitalize on if you are not wealthy?

6. Is it an advantage to have too pretty a baby face if you want to work with children?

7. What is the difference between entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs?

8. What is Cooper’s observation about the parents of these two groups?

9. What is offered to help you forge your way to the top?

10. What is the difference between successful and unsuccessful people?

11. How do “positive affirmations” operate?

12. What does Breen show people in his training programmes?

13. What does Breen get students to concentrate on?

Vocabulary presentation and practice

Vocabulary in context

I. Give a suitable Russian translation of the following units from the text.

1. Make it to the top!

2. it’s easy to feel like a flop

3. a surprisingly haphazard affair

4. they were thrown out or were bored

5. were born into affluent families

6. to capitalize on another advantage

7. plainer peers

8. it can be a handicap having too pretty a baby face

9. you may fare better by taking to crime

10. who rise through the ranks to the top

11. awkward personalities

12. cope with disaster

13. to give people vital resilience

14. parents who refuse to absent themselves from you

15. self-help manuals

16. unleash the power within

17. you were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success

18. to “gee” themselves up

19. to be overwhelmed by a mountain of things

II. Find in the text English equivalents for the following.

1. общество, которое всё больше одержимо идеей материального успеха

2. нас призывают

3. сделай шаг по служебной лестнице

4. подвели свою семью

5. У всех ли у нас есть потенциал стать миллионером?

6. опровергать совет

7. самый верный путь к богатству

8. получили деньги в наследство

9. руководят большими корпорациями

10. имели репутацию нарушителей спокойствия

11. деловые неудачи

12. выдающиеся люди корпорации

13. жертвы дискриминации

14. курсы по позитивному мышлению

15. позитивное утверждение

16. вы – необыкновенны, уникальны и неповторимы

17. продуктивный образ мышления

18. первостепенные особые задания

Vocabulary in practice

I. Match the word with its definition.

1. success a. a calamitous event, esp, one causing great damage or

hardship

2. exhort b. to receive (property) by succession or will, as an heir

3. flop c. a person who is one’s equal in rank or ability

4. haphazard d. unwaveringly decided

5. entrepreneur e. any disadvantage or disability

6. inherit f. to urge, advise, or caution earnestly

7. peer g. a total failure

8. handicap h. a person who organizes, manages, and assumes response-

bility for a business or other enterprise

9. disaster i. a favourable result that one has tried or hoped for

10. determined j. without order or planning