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you improve your reading and writing skills in English. They have been written and designed using a consistent We have chosen the texts and tasks carefully to offer methodological approach that allows them to be used an interesting and challenging mix of topics and easily together. They are designed in such a way that language styles. We have included contemporary uses of they can be used either in class or by the students English such as email and the Internet.
working on their own. This book has a lot of practice exercises to help Just Reading and Writing consists of 14 units you with reading and writing. When you see this containing a variety of reading texts and activities symbol ( ) at the end of an exercise it means that on subjects such as money, photography, anger, diets, you can refer to the answer key at the back of the book poems, appearance and hobbies of all kinds. These are and check your answers there.
designed to give students experience of reading and Although we encourage the use of dictionaries, our writing in different styles and genres of English. There's advice is not to use one until you have done all the a comprehensive answer key at the back of the book. exercises in a section. If you use your dictionary too early Our aim has been to provide texts and tasks that are you may find it more difficult to understand the general themselves stimulating and that could lead to any meaning of the text.
number of student activities once the exercises in this We are confident that this book will help you progress book have been completed. in English and, above all, that you will enjoy using it. We are confident that you will find this book a real asset and that you will also want to try the other title at the Upper Intermediate level, Just Listening and Speaking.A Lottery dreams 1 Read this article, Dream or nightmare?, quickly. Where do sentences a-g fit in the article? DREAM OR NIGHTMARE? The tirst one is done tor you.
Have you always dreamed of winning the lottery? a Lynette Nichols was a Everyone does, don't they? bookkeeper before she won about $17 million in the After reading Janet Bloom's article, you might change your mind. b So why does a sudden win. and so they buy tickets every week hoping tor a dream come true. cause so many problems?.
People think Ihat when they win they will be able to stop doing Iheir boring job c Brett Peterson was just 19 and and live a life of luxury. But if their numbers really do come up, that dream often working as a busboy in a becomes a nightmare. small restaurant in California. When he found out he was going to receive a $2 million payout d So, do you still want to win in the lottery, he immediately gave up work, lent money to all his friends, whether the lottery?.
or not they would be able to pay it back, and went out on a wild spending spree. e On top of this, big winners are Within months he had huge credit card debts and no money left to pay them. A not prepared for the new year later, he had taken a job as a sales clerk to try to make ends meet. expectations that people now have of them.
Did it bring her happiness? Not exactly. She and her husband f For many, a big win in the immediately started fighting over money. She couldn't believe that he was lottery is their dream. wasting money on electronic toys for himself, while he objected to her buying g John and Sandy from Ohio expensive cars for her family.
They ended up in court in atrial that cost them won about $12 million and both hundreds of thousands of dollars and, of course, they're now divorced. almost immediately the letters and phone calls started. Everyone, from crazy inventors to people needing help putting their kids through college, wanted a donation from them. Their own kids lost all their friends when they moved house to a more expensive neighborhood and they spent way too much time and energy worrying about their own safety.
And to make matters worse, they both lost their jobs as accountants. Well, it seems that a large win can put enormous stress on people who are not prepared for it. The majority of people who win are people who did nOf have a lot of money before. They tend to come from blue-collar backgrounds and have been used to working full time and living 'pay-check to pay-check'.
When they get this unexpected windfall, they don't know how to cope. Very often they stop working and they move house. But these are probably the two worst things they can do. Who lives in wealthy neighborhoods? Wealthy people of course - people who are used to having and spending money.
Moving to these areas alienates lottery winners from their familiar world and friends.