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Comprehension check

1. What was the social status of a young woman and a young man?

2. What did they want to do?

3. Who objected to their marriage and why?

4. What condition did young people get married on?

5. With what money did young people buy all the necessities?

6. How does the modern romantic fable end?

7. What are we trained for from our childhood?

8. How is life success measured?

9. In what way do we spend the whole of our life?

10. What is the most amusing thing of this competing game?

11. What idea are people obsessed with?

12. What does industry set out to do?

13. What provides the means for the wheels of industry to be kept turning?

14. What is the impact of materialistic outlook on education?

15. What do big companies compete in?

16. What has recruiting tactics led to?

17. What is worshipped above all?

Vocabulary presentation and practice

Vocabulary in context

I. Give Russian equivalents for the following phrases from the text.

1. to be acquisitive

2. our possessions are clearly labeled

3. keeping up with our neighbours, the Joneses

4. will go one better

5. at a suitable rate of interest

6. set out to create new markets

7. “build-in obsolescence”

8. fringe benefits

9. the highest bidder

10. Mammon is worshipped

II. Give English equivalents from the text for the following words or word-combinations .

1. испытывать глубокую любовь

2. перспективная работа

3. одолжить кому-то деньги

4. одолжить у кого-то деньги

5. выплачивать долги

6. наша собственность

7. зарабатывать на жизнь

8. успех измеряется деньгами

9. самое смешное в этой игре

10. богатое общество

11. быть одержимым идеей

12. потребительские товары

13. избавляться

14. ради него самого

15. большую зарплату

16. вербовать студентов

17. соблазнительная зарплата

18. богатые нации

19. лишать

20. способные граждане

21. колёса промышленности

22. квалифицированные кадры

23. превышать

Vocabulary in practice

I. Match the word with its definition.

1. acquisitive a. appealing strongly to

2. possession b. passing out of use

3. to label c. make sth new, original or different

4. to lend d. feel or show great respect, reverence, admiration

5. to borrow e. put a label on

6. tempting f. tending or seeking to acquire, often greedily

7. to create g. the persons collectively employed in an institution or com-

pany

8. obsolescence h. that which is possessed; property

9. personnel i. get sth or the use of sth, after promising to give it back later

10. to worship j. give a person sth, or the use of sth, for a period of time, after

which the thing must be given back

II. Paraphrase the underlined using words or word-combinations from the text.

1. They loved each other very much.

2. The bank gave him all the money he needed.

3. All our possessions are clearly marked.

4. We spend our lives trying to be on a par with other people.

5. He is sure to try to outshine us.

6. Not only in prosperous states people are obsessed with this idea.

7. Consumer goods are wanted everywhere.

8. Our industry aims at creating new markets.

9. Goods are made to be thrown out.

10. The demand is much bigger than the supply.