The Aristocrat

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 907.

Do the vocabulary exercises after the texts.

PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY

&Ex. 3a) Read the stories about four people from different walks of life. What are their relationships with money?

LADY CHRYSSIE COBBOLD, 58, lives in Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, the family home of her husband David, 60, a financier. They have four grown-up children.

'Knebworth House is run as abusiness but it doesn'tmake enough money to pay us. I have no regular salary. I never really spend money because I don't have it and I'm not botheredabout clothes. I spend about £2,000 a year on them. There have been moments when we thought we might have to sell the house, but now I think there'll be enough money for the next generation to keep the house, but they won'tinherit much more than that.

Money is the only thing my husband and I rowabout. I'm always worrying about money. I don't believe one should spend what one hasn't got. My husband likes having parties, going to restaurants, having guests for the weekend. In summer we'll have up to 16 people at weekends. They're usually quite good and they'll bring a bottle of wine, but they still have to be fed.

We always do our own repairs to the house or we'll put abucket out to catchthe leaks if we can't. I'll go to any lengths to save money. I'll put up wallpaper, do all the painting, make curtains and upholstery. As a child I used to get only 5p a week pocket money and I'd do anything to get more money. I'd even pick bunches of flowers from our garden and sell them to the local funeral parlour.

If you have a big house, people think you must be well off, but it just isn't true.'

Ex. 3b) Give synonyms to the following words in bold: run a business, make money,row,well off, pocket money, inherit,to keep the house,bother