Fighting for the high Life

10 class

Discuss the following questions

1. Do you often buy expensive things?

2. What prevents you from wasting money?

3. Are you a spendthrift?

4. What do you do to afford expensive party dresses?

5. What are your “life’s essentials”?

6. Do you try to economise on everything?

You should know a lot of rules and regulations to fight for the high life. This poem will help you.

A short direction

To avoid dejection (уныние)

By variations

In occupations,

And prolongation

Of relaxation,

And combinations

Of recreations,

And disputation

On the state of nation

In adaptation

To your station,

By invitations,

To friends and relations

By invitation

Of amputation

By permutation (изменение)

In conversation,

And deep reflection

You’ll avoid dejection

Moral: Behave!

Read and translate the words

Terracota pots

State of affairs

Shrunken

Swollen

High standards

Spendthrift

To sacrifice

To waste something

Wiggle

To cope with

Fossilized mammoth

Tusk

To slouch

A tramp

Essentials

To be on the dole

Explain the meaning of these words in EnglishShrunken swollen wiggle to cope with

1. The word … means having become smaller.

2. The word … means having a full round shape.

3. The word … means to move from side to side.

4. The word … means to succeed in dealing with a difficult situation.

Match the words with the correct definitions.

1) Essentials

2) To be on the dole (informal)

3) To do without something

4) To sacrifice

5) Spendthrift

6) To waste something

a) To receive money from the government because one is unemployed

b) To loose or give up especially for a good purpose

c) Something necessary, of central importance

d) Someone who spends money carelessly

e) To use something in a way that is not useful or sensible

f) To manage to live without something

Link each of these sentences with a corresponding time expression from the list.

1.Tea is no problem I put one tea bag in a mug

2. I’m just recovering from the dress

3. I’ve just stopped watering down the milk

4. I’ve been thinking about my sitting room

5. My make-up will need replenishing

6. I discovered that I only had two slices of bread

a few days ago.

since last year.

at the moment.

usually.

soon.

by now.