- •Discuss in pairs:
- •3D) Figure out the words by their definitions:
- •3E) Provide antonyms from the text to the following words:
- •3F) Figure out the words by their definitions:
- •3G). Which people do these words describe? Why?
- •3H) Compare these people’s relationship with money. Using the words in bold from the texts describe your relations with money.
- •5B) Work with another student and discuss these points.
- •5C) Read this text about charities and answer questions below.
- •5D) Answer the questions:
- •Vocabulary Bank
- •All the verbs in the first column collocate with the word money. Match the collocation with the correct definition
- •2. Choose the most suitable word or phrase underlined in each sentence.
- •3. Replace each word or phrase underlined with a word or phrase from the list which has the opposite meaning.
- •4 Complete each sentence with a word from the list. Use each word once only.
- •5. Choose the most suitable response to each sentence a) to j) from the sentences 1) to 10). Use each response once only.
- •6. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence.
- •7. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence.
- •8 . Match each person from the list with a suitable description. Use each name once only.
5B) Work with another student and discuss these points.
Do voluntary organizations collecting money exist in your country? If so, which groups of people are they trying to help? Tick the categories below.
Sufferers from cancer ____
The blind ____
Other medical causes ____
The homeless ____
The aged ____
Children ____
The environment ____
The Third World ____
Animals ____
Religious groups ____
Poverty, general welfare __
Others ____
How do they collect the money? Tick the items.
By calling at the house ____
Selling second-hand goods ____
Letters of appeal ____
Advertisements in newspapers ____
Street collection ____
Lotteries ____
TV programmes ____
Other methods _____
3. Which causes are you most likely to give to?
4. Which method of collecting money do you prefer? Is it the most effective?
5C) Read this text about charities and answer questions below.
Charity once meant love or affection, but in late twentieth- century in Britain its meaning has been transformed. Today charity stands for big business. Charities employ 200,000 people, account for as much as four per cent of Britain's gross domestic product, and exceed in scale that most ancient and widespread of all industries, farming.
The influence of charities reaches everywhere. Their massive spectaculars get privileged time on the nation's television screens. Spokespersons lobby for every imaginable good cause, from the environment to the Third World, poverty to disease, religion to education, childhood to old age.
Charities run our lifeboats and provide other vital emergency services through the Red Cross and St John Ambulance Brigade. They are, too, the human guardians of the animal world, caring especially for those great British favourites, donkeys, dogs and birds.
Without charities a great many unfortunate people would be even worse off: old soldiers, battered women, the deaf, the dying, the blind, the homeless, the suicidal, sufferers from every rare and common disability.
Britain raises more money for medical research through charities than it does through the Government's Medical Research Council. One charity, the National Trust, dominates the endless task of preserving the nation’s heritage. Others are rebuilding the finances of our universities, and in a few years have raised more than £350 million for Oxford and Cambridge alone.
Charity benevolence seems to have had its origins when warrior tramped off to the Crusades, leaving their possessions in the care of a trusted friend. Trust, at any rate, remains the basis on which charities rest. Charities today raise and spend money as any business does. But there is one important difference. Unlike company directors, charity trustees must not make any profit for themselves.
Giant fund-raising events of the eighties cast charity in a glare of publicity. People began to ask questions: were the fund-raising methods legitimate? Was the money raised well spent? And why, this age of universal welfare, did we need charities at all? The questions remain to be answered.