tailieunhanh - New cutting edgepreintermidiate - part 8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'new cutting edgepreintermidiate - part 8', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Language focus 2 Past time words -1 Read the newspaper stories about how people got money -or lost it - in unusual ways. Match a headline to each newspaper story there is one extra headline . o _ EASY COME . EASY GO 0. Why the Internet is bad for you THE MOST GENEROUS MAN IN THE WORLD o Love wins in the end Grammar Look at the examples below. Underline the phrases that mean the same as the word s in bold. 1 . the 10 000 engagement ring he had just bought. a a long time before b a short time before 2 When the bank noticed its mistake he had already spent 85 000. a after that time b before that time 3 . he d never heard of the company before. a he had heard of the company in the past b it was the first time he d heard of the company Read Language summary B on page 156. A Swiss man was amazed to see an extra 100 000 in his bank account one day. He started spending the money immediately organising expensive parties for his friends and buying tilings he d never been able to afford before. When the bank noticed its o As he arrived at the restaurant where he planned to give his girtfriend a wonderful surprise Eric Culbertson checked in his pocket. and realised that he had left the 10 000 engagement ring Ỡ . w A man in Germany had a horrible surprise when he checked his e-mail one morning. Thomas Vogel aged 22 found he had bought items worth nearly 1 million from an Internet auction company. Thomas Vogel who makes his living by gardening and planting trees says he had never heard of the company before and knew nothing about the 800 000 house 100 000 car and 25 000 small aeroplane he had just bought. The Internet company insisted that he paid for the items however as the bids were made in his name. T don t know what I m going to do or how I m mistake - the money actually belonged to a much richer man with the same name - he had already spent 85 000. A court ruled that the money wasn t his and that he would have to repay the full amount. he had just .