II. Reproduce the situation where the following word-combination was used in the text :

a job with good prospects

lent him the money

our possessions are clearly labelled

to keep up with them

set out to create new markets

the highest bidder

III. Comment on the following quotations.

1. Money makes the man. (Aristodemus)

2. Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five. (Richard Ney)

3. Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing. (Michael Phillips)

4. Money does not change men, it only unmasks them. (Mme. Riccoboni)

5. Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.(G.B.Shaw)

6. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness. (G.B.Shaw)

7. Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. (W.Smith)

8. Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

IV. Read some handy hints about the origin of money. Did you get any new information? Handy hints

• Ancient coins were probably first invented in China, and appeared again in what is now modern-day Turkey in 700BC

• Paper money was also invented in China, while banks and credit existed in Ancient Babylon (now part of Iraq), Greece and Rome, all well over 2000 years ago!

• The birth of modern capitalist thought is often ascribed to the book Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776. He preached that economic freedom ("laissez-faire") with as little government control as possible was the best way for countries to enrich themselves.

• The opposite of this was Karl Marx's Das Kapital (Capital), 1867, which argued capitalism meant the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few rich, and that they would then be overthrown by revolution and a system of communism - central economic control by a government to achieve a fairer balance.

V. Match the English expression in the left column with its Russian equivalent in the right column.

1. to be bad money a. денег куры не клюют

2. to have money to burn b. сильно нуждаться в деньгах

3. to be good money c. круглая сумма

4. to be hard pressed for money d. деньги нажитые нечестным трудом

5. Down with the money! e. быть невыгодным

6. even money f. деньги к деньгам

7. hot money g. быть выгодным

8. to make the money fly h. деньги на бочку

9. money draws i. деньги истраченные на образование, ни-

когда не пропадут

10. money for jam j. сдача, мелочь

11. Money is a good servant k. транжирить деньги

but a bad master.

12. Money spent on the brain is l. человек должен распоряжаться деньгами,

never spent in vain. а не деньги человеком

13. odd money m. деньги, полученные легко (ни за что)

14. soft money n. карманные деньги

15. pocket (pin) money o. бумажные деньги

16. squander money p. транжирить деньги