Record lottery winner rushes back to work (Free Talking Class)

Record lottery winner rushes back to work


Story:

Germany's biggest individual lottery winner had no time to celebrate after becoming $27 million richer because he was too worried about being late for work.

When the salesman, who was not identified by WestLotto, arrived on Thursday to buy his weekly lottery ticket at a shop in the industrial Ruhr area he was told last week's 12-euro ticket that he hadn't bothered to check had won the jackpot.

The man's reaction left the lottery operator dumbfounded.

"After he was told he had won the jackpot, he said he didn't have time to chat because he would get into trouble with his boss," a lottery spokesman in the western city of Muenster said. Instead, he rushed off to catch a bus to work.

There were few details about the lucky man, a pigeon-lover in his 30s, except that he planned to trade in his rented apartment for something a little bigger in the country. It was not known if he would stay on in his job as a salesman.

Title: Lottery Winner Rushes Back to Work

Source: Reuters / Lottery Post

Level: Intermediate

Vocabulary

bother(ed)
celebrate
chat
dumbfound(ed)
euro
identify(-ied)
individual
jackpot
lottery
operation
pigeon
reaction

Other expressions
get in(to) trouble
rush off

Talking Points

If you won the lottery, would you quit your job?

Would you be concerned about what your boss might think?

What would you spend the money on?

For More Practice (Role Play)

Pretend you just won the lottery.
Tell your partner the good news.

Pretend your friend just won the lottery. Ask him/her for a loan.


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