1. How much money did Richard's money win?
2. When did the Euromillions start and where can we find this lottery?
3. What has been the biggest win ever? Who won it? When?
4. How much does the average household in the UK spend on lottery?
5. What is the problem with that?
6. How much money goes to good causes? Why isn't this always good?
7. Why do so many people buy lottery tickets?
8. What encourages people to buy more tickets?
9. Why do the lottery people advise winners to go public?
10. What's Richard's mother going to spend her winnings on?
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1. How much money is spent on lottery tickets in the UK every week?
2. What is easier to find in the newspapers according to Jackie? Why?
3. What do we know about Michaell Carroll before winning the lottery?
4. When did he win the lottey and how much did he win?
5. Name some of the things he bought with the money.
6. When was all his money gone?
7. What did Elaine Thompson do before winning the lottery?
8. How much did she win?
9. What did she do with the money?
10. What does Elaine say about being happy?
11. What did Julie Jeffrey and her husband do before winning the lottery?
12. How much did they win?
13. What did both women do with the money? What does Jackie think about it?
14. What does Julie say about the newspapers?
Lottery 1
ReplyDelete1. She won a fiver (five pounds).
2. It started in 2004 and it's run in 11 European countries.
3. A Scottish couple won 161 million pounds in July 2011.
4. They spend 140 pounds a year.
5. For low income earners it means a large proportion of their income.
6. 28 per cent of the money collected goes to good causes, but a lot of these causes are supporting the rich people. For example, they supported the Royal Opera House, which is a place only rich people go to.
7. They hope to get out of the economic hole they are in.
8. Because of the publicity in the newspapers.
9. Because newspapers always find out an publicize it. It's better to get the publicity over at the beginning and then the fame will drop off and you'll be able to enjoy your money.
10. She's going to buy a few more tickets.
Lottery 2:
1. 90 million pounds
2. Horror stories. Newspapers prefer bad stories because good stories are boring.
3. He was 19. He was unemployed and he didn't have a bank account.
4. In 2002 he won 9.7 million pounds.
5. He bought 4 houses, a villa in Spain, expensive cars, gold jewellery, drugs.
6. 4 years after winning it (in 2006)
7. She had a part-time job.
8. She won 4.7 million pounds.
9. She and her husband run a restaurant together.
10. If you were happy before winning the lottery, you'll be happy after it (and the other way round).
11. They had full-time but low-paid jobs.
12. They won over 1 million pounds.
13. They both have put money aside for their children's education. They were sensible with the money (they didn't change their lives).
14. Newspapers made up horrible stories about them because they didn't believe they could be happy.