Gold rush in Mongolia
Level 1 •
Elementary
Vocabulary: Lexical fields
4
Decide which categories these words belong to and write them into the spidergrams.
black market
plain gold-miner
hills
geologist
criminal
prospector
café smuggle town
taxi driver
illegal
stealing
shack student land
arrest
legal
police cells
prostitute evidence
disco tent vet
Comprehension check 2: Summary
5
Which of these short sentences gives the best summary of the article?
1. Mongolian nomads are selling green plastic bowls to Russian miners.
2. Mongolian police are arresting people for illegal gold smuggling.
3. Thousands of people are moving to Ogoomor in the hope of finding gold.
Webquest
6
What is the current price of gold? Is it rising or falling? Do you think gold is a good investment? Use these
websites to help you answer the questions.
http://goldprice.org/
www.thebulliondesk.com/
http://goldprices.com/
www.kitco.com/
jobs and
professions
legal words and
terminology
places
232
Fill the gaps in the sentences using these key words and phrases from the text.
admission
contract
behaviour
proficient
excuse
experiment
principal
lottery
recent
funds
1. A ____________ is a written legal agreement between two people or businesses.
2. If you ____________ with a new idea, you try it to see what will happen.
3. ____________ is another word for the headmaster or headmistress of a school.
4. If something is ____________, it happened a short time ago.
5. A ____________ is a game of chance where everyone buys a ticket with a number but only some numbers win.
6. A person’s ____________ is the way in which he or she follows basic social rules.
7. ____________ is permission to join an institution like a school or a college.
8. If a government ____________ something, it gives it all the money it needs to operate.
9. An ____________ is a reason you give to explain why you have not done something.
10. If you are ____________
at something you have learned, you are good at it.
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