Are you going to be a millionaire?

Do you bet on

1. Aren’t you a millionaire? Book a holiday to Barbados and buy a Rolls-Royce. You just need a kind of relaxation!

2. May be now you are penniless and you are fantasizing about winning a big prize in the National Lottery. Tomorrow you should buy your lucky lottery ticket and you’ll win!

3. Maybe this turns you green with envy, but you don’t know what it is actually like to wake up one day with more money than you can imagine. Just keep trying, keep working.

& Pre-reading

Look at the title of the magazine article. It is based on a well-known song from a 1950s’ American musical.

1. Listen to the song. What don’t the singers of the song want to do? What do they

want to do?

2. The article is about people who win huge amounts of money in a lottery or on the

football pools, and how this affects their lives. Which of the following do you

think are good suggestions or bad suggestions for such people?

If you win a lot of money,…..

………….you should give up work.

………….you should buy a new house.

………….you mustn’t let it change you.

………….it’s a good idea to keep it a secret.

………….you should give money to everyone who asks for it.

………….you should go on a spending spree.

What suggestions would you give to someone who has won a lot of money?

3.The words in A are in the article. Match a word in A with a definition in B.

A 1. envy 2. to fantasize 3. a jigsaw 4. a windfall 5. a purpose 6. to fritter away money

B a. a sum of money you receive unexpectedly b. an aim, a reason for doing something c. a feeling of discontent because someone has something that you want d. to spend money foolishly on small, useless things e. to imagine, to dream f. picture cut into pieces that you have to put together again

& Reading

Read the article. The following sentences have been taken out of the text. Where do you think they should go?

a. They were furious!

b. we feel at home

c. It is tempting to move to a bigger house

d. ‘nothing but misery’

e. what the money would do to us!

f. it seems fantastic!

g. most of their money will be frittered away

h. if you lent him some money,