VERO 15
You win the lottery. PicassoOr do you sea
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?
Read the newspaper article once. How much dial
winning the cloetery change Tony Bryan's life?
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you buy a 10-bedroomed mansion
gold-plated yacht and
bit more comfortably?
Tn January 2006, Tony Bryan was working in a factory that
produces the favourings they put on fried chicken. He got
La message telling him to call his wife, Rachel, urgently
He called his wife, but the line was engaged. Expecting the
worst, he jumped into his car and raced home. His seven
year-old daughter opened the door with a smile and said,
'We've won the lottery, Daddy.' He found Rachel in the living
room holding a lottery ticket worth E2.6m. Their lives had
changed for ever
Today, he and his family live in a nice house with a lot
of land. They have two goats, and ducks and chickens. It
seems that they have adapted brilliantly. They are enjoying
their money, but they have not stopped working. They run a
caravan park in the field next to the house, and they sell their
Own vegetables. They haven't exactly been relaxing.
"All your life you get up and go to work to earn money to
buy a car, or a holiday, or a better house,' says Tony. "If you
take that away, what is the point of getting up? So you quit
your job, you start to get up late. you watch morning TV, then
you go shopping, then wait for school pick-up time. After a
couple of weeks, you begin to wonder what the point of it is
We had six months going on nice holidays, but then we had to
sit down and decide what to do in the long-term.'
So they didn't buy an Aston Martin or even a Mercedes.
"I couldn't justify spending £30,000 on a car,' he says. 'It's
a ridiculous amount, no matter how much money you have.
They are very careful with their money. "You don't stop
worrying when you win the lottery. You just worry about
different things. I felt guilty that we had lots of money. We
were just lucky...
As I leave, the telephone rings. 'It's £8 per night for a
caravansays their daughter. I set off home, past their
vegetable stall at the end of the drive. Tomatoes are 59p a
kilo. A cucumber is 50p.
b Read the article again. Mark the sentences T (true).
F(false), or DS (doesn't say).
I Tony was very worried when he got his wife's message.
2 Tony continued working in a factory for a few months
after the lottery win.
3 He and his family now live in the city. DS
+ They lived very differently for the first six months
after the lottery win.
5 Tony thinks that if you don't work, it's hard to know
what to do with your life.
6 Their daughter now goes to a private school. DS
c Choose five new words or phrases from the article.
Check their meaning and pronunciation, and try to
learn them.

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