Complete the passage about a person who won the lottery. Use the words below.
spend | ill | wonderful | invest | excited | furniture | worries | prize | disappionted | abroad
Do you ever wonder how you would feel if you discovered you won a large lottery (1) ___________________? Would you want to (2) _________________ it all at once or would you (3) ___________________ the money in the bank? When a lady won a million dollars in the USA, she believed that all her (4) ___________________ were over and that life would be (5) ________________. She took her family on expensive holidays (6) ____________________ and bought expensive (7) _______________________ for her home. However, her family soon began to fight over money. They were no longer (8) ____________________ about their good fortune. Now they were jealous and angry. They expected their mother to give them more and more. At first, their mother was just (9) ____________________ in their attitude, but over time, their demands and constant fighting made her (10) _____________________.
- prize
- spend
- invest
- worries
- wonderful
- abroad
- furniture
- excited
- disappointed
- ill
Do you know which country uses 'rouble' as its currency? Find out.
Russia uses the rouble or ruble as its official currency. It is also used in Belarus and other regions, but primarily associated with Russia.
Which idea did Ivan and Masha agree with in this paragraph?
At what point in the story do the following words describe Ivan?
- hopeful
- annoyed
- sad
Write T for true and F for false.
- Ivan had bought a lottery ticket without informing Masha.
- To Ivan, money meant power.
- Once they got the lottery ticket, Ivan and Masha wanted to start a cotton mill.
- According to Ivan, Masha spent money lavishly on everything.
- Masha read the thoughts of her husband and felt angry towards him.
- F
Masha bought the ticket, not Ivan. - T
- F
They wanted a house, travel, and to pay debts, not start a mill. - F
Ivan thought Masha would be too frugal, not lavish. - T





















































































