• For the rich, good education, travel, luxury and security are all readily available, while the poor attain these with great difficulty, if at all.
• Money does not ensure / guarantee happiness.
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1. What is the general attitude toward wealth in our society?
2. How is life different for the rich as compared with ordinary people?
• The rich have an easy and comfortable life /
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everything they want at their fingertips / a luxurious lifestyle.
• People in the lower income brackets have to live from hand tቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ mouth / struggle to make both ends meet.
• To some people, wealth is equated with success, power, happiness and satisfaction in life, but to others, wealth is nothing but glittering baggage.
• Rich people seem to have more of everything than ordinary people.
3. Do you think money can bring happiness? Why or why not?
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4. Is money the most important thing in your life? If not, what is?
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5. What are some of the valuable things in life that money cannot buy?
There is no doubt that money can give people material comfort. However, there are many precious things that they cannot buy, such as health, true love and friendship. We can find a lot of examples to illustrate this point. For instance, many rich people spend a lot of money on medicines, hoping to live a longer and healthy life. Yet no matter how much money they'd like to spend, some rich people still cannot buy health. The couple who broke up cannot
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6. Do you think wealth is a source of happiness or a source of problems?
In my opinion, we shouldn't define wealth or money as a source of happiness or a source of problems. To some extent, money may cause problems or make people happy, but other things will do so as well. So we have no reason to blame on wealth. It is not the money but those people themselves who misuse the money and become a source of problems. Money is like a sword with double blades, when you use it properly, it will benefit your life. Accordingly, the misuse of it will do
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Here are some sentences and structures that you might find useful in discussing the above questions.
• Money ranks very high / low in people’s value system in contemporary society.
5. What are some of the valuable things in life that money cannot buy?
6. Do you think wealth is a source of happiness or a source of problems?
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