The lottery

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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?

The Best Places to be a Woman / The gender gap across the world

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Crime and Punishment

Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2

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The perfect crime
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1. What are they celebrating?
2. What does Henry tell her?
3. What does she tell the police she was doing?
4. What do the police think has happened?
5. What do the police need to do immediately?
6. What do they all need?
7. What does she offer her guests?
8. What does her friend wonder?



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Victim

1. Why didn’t she see what the man looked like or his clothes?
2. How did she feel?
3. What did he grab? 

Witness

1. Where was he?

2. What did the thief look like?

3. What was he wearing?

4. What does he think can be seen in the photo he took?

Accused

1. Where does he say he was?
2. Who can verify it according to him?

Lawyer

1. What does he ask the court to take into consideration?

-          The accused is __________________________________.

-          The accused had few _________________________________.

-          It’s the first time he ________________________________________.

He’s clearly sorry for what ____________________________ and he deserves to be given    ______________________________.

Judge

1. What has Mark Johnson been found guilty of?

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2. What does the judge sentence him to?

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3. How long is the sentence suspended for?

4. What will he be required to do?

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Why do we take risks?

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