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3 Life stories

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1 Look at this list of words 1 look at the title of the article and the photograph.
associated with rnoney.
? What is Wall Street? Where is it?
wealthy poor sell rich buy b Wt at do you think the story is about?
stock exchange mean fortune
cheap generous tax free pay
stocks and shares bank cost
millionaire price work count
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expensive propefty diamonds
job jewellery mortgage lose

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We can organize the words into a
.fll"urrt all about
spidergram like this:
money when she was
very young. As a child,
she read the financial
inherit SAVE
pages of the newspaper to
her wealthy father. FIer
father died when Hetty
rvas 30 years old and
she inherited $1
spend earn million. YVhen she
herself died in
/\\ 1916, she left a
sell buy fortune of

almost $100
I
price million to
her two
-/\ children"
expensive cheap

b Complete the legs of the spidergram
H:y,",*
with words from the list. Some words
may go on more than one leg.
money on the New
2 Compare your spidergram with
York stock exchange.
the class.
She was a flnanciai genius.
a Can you add any more words to your
She made money so easily
spidergram?
that people called her the
Look at the words again. Choose
Witch of Wall Street. But
words that best describe
* a millionaire's life. although she was one of the
* your life. richest r /omen in the world,
she was very mean. She
counted every cent and she
spent as iittle as possibie. She
didn't own a house, because
she didn't want to pay
property taxes. So she and her
chiidren lived in cheap hctels"
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