5D) Answer the questions:

1.Where do you think the text comes from:

a) a novel;

b) a charity's publicity leaflet;

c) a newspaper.

2. What title would you give to the piece:

a) Where charity is, there love is;

b) The changing face of charity;

c) Charities? We can do without them.

3. Which charities/charitable causes does the text refer to?

5e) Now read the text again and decide whether the statements below are true or false. Correct those that are false, and underline the sections in the text which show the others are true. Note that one part of a sentence may be true and the other false.

1. Charity is like big business nowadays because it involves large sums of money…

2. ... and charities make a profit for the employees.

3. TV companies provide time for appeals on behalf of all kinds f causes.

4. Charities improve the position of many unfortunate people.

5. There are charities to help women who have been beaten by their husbands and people who think of killing themselves.

6. The Government provides most of the money for medical research.

7. Big charity events in recent years have brought charities to public notice ...

8. ... although people wondered whether the methods employed o raise money were the right ones.

Questions to the topic:

1. What role does money have in your life? What is the contribution of money to people’s sense of well-being?

2. Describe your budget: your income and your expenditures.

3. How would you describe yourself in terms of your attitude to money: extravagant, stingy, generous, mean, negligent, irresponsible?

4. Describe your relations with money. How do you economize?

5. If someone gave you a lot of money, what would you do with it?

6. Do you think money is more important than love?

7. How much money do you want to earn each month?

8. What qualities must a person have to make BIG money? Does big money change a person? in what way?

9. Should children get an allowance (pocket money) from their parents?

10. Do you ever give money to beggars on the street? Why or why not?

11. Do you ever give money to charity? Why or why not?

12. Why do people often want more money, no matter how much they have got?

13. Why are poor people in many cases more generous than rich people?

14. What are some reasons for people being poor? Can poverty be avoided?

15. Who wouldn't you lend money to?

16. Do you play the lottery? gamble? Why?

17. Do you sometimes buy things that you don't need? Can you explain why you do?

18. How much money would you have to win to be happy?

19. What are the easiest ways of getting much money?

20. What problems may arise if you suddenly went into money?

Vocabulary Bank

1. All the verbs in the first column collocate with the word money. Match the collocation with the correct definition

• earn a) receive money from somebody who has died

• raise b) take money out of a bank account

• donate c) use money on something you don’t need

• steal d) buy e.g. shares in a company

• win e) give sb money that they must return

• find f) get money from people for a purpose

• lose g) give money to an organization

• spend h) keep money for future use

• save i) give money back to sb you borrowed from

• lend j) give/pay money for something

• borrow k) not have any longer; not gain

• invest l) have to pay sb the money they gave you

• withdraw m) get money by working

• waste n) take money from sb without permission

• inherit o) get money in the lottery, quiz show etc.

• pay back p) get money from sb that you must return

• owe q) discover by chance