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Task 1
Mark the statements True or False.
1. State education isn’t very good in Denmark.
2. Danish people see themselves as all being equal.
3. Danish people don’t consider salary the most important part of a job.


Task 2
Read the story and try to give a moral to it.

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy
had a collection of beautiful marbles. The girl
had some candies with her. The boy offered to
give the girl all his marbles in exchange for all
her candies. The girl agreed. The boy gave all the
marbles to the girl, but secretly kept the biggest
and the most beautiful marble for himself. The girl gave him all her
candies as she had promised. That night, the girl slept peacefully. But
the boy couldn’t sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some
more tasty candies from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

What is the moral of this story? (try to write completely)

А вот сам текст к первому заданию

Where do you think the world’s happiest people live? Somewhere hot
with sandy beaches? A country with a tradition of fine food and culture?
Not according to a recent study by the University of Leicester. In a list
ranking countries by the happiness of their citizens, it put tropical Fiji 50
places below freezing Iceland, while Canada was far above France and

Italy. And the happiest people on Earth? Those 5.5 million people who
call Denmark their home.
Surprised? Well you’ll be more surprised when you hear that the Danes
pay some of the highest taxes in the world. Most Danes are used to
seeing between 50-70% of their salary going to the government! So
what is the secret of their success?
Let’s start with all that tax they pay. The Danish government provides
its people with one of the finest education and health systems in the
world. It spends more on children and elderly people per capita than any
other country.
And there’s another advantage to those high taxes. Because a refuse
collector’s final salary is not that much less than someone who works in
a bank, for example, Danes don’t choose their careers based on money
or status as people in other countries do. They choose the job they want
to do. There’s a philosophy in Denmark known as ‘Jante-lov’, which
translates as ‘you’re no better than anybody else’. The refuse collector
can hold his head up high as he proudly does his job – workers in other
countries are not used to looking at life this way.
Money doesn’t seem as important in Denmark. It has been called ‘post-
consumerist’ society. People have nice things in their houses, but they’re
not mad about shopping and spending. They love hanging out with
friends and family at gatherings called ‘hygge’. 92% of Danes belong to
some kind of social club and these clubs are even paid by the
government.
Finally Danish people aren’t as suspicious as many other nations and
show an amazing amount of trust in each other and their government.
You can see signs of this all over the country. You’ll find vegetables
stalls with no assistant. You take what you want and leave the money in
a basket. Danes don’t need to lock their bikes up when they leave them
to go into a shop. Perhaps the bikes is a good symbol of Denmark. The
Danes can afford cars but they choose bikes – simple, economical, non-
poluting machines that show no status and help people keep fit.

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