3/14/2011

Forbes Magazine Wealthiest List (video)









You can also watch this video by clicking HERE


  • Question asking time! Let's try to get the missing info


1. Forbes Magazine list mirrors ……………………………..

2. The 200 new billionaires this year are from ………………………..

3. There is dynamism in the world economy, but it's not in the United States and it's not in Western Europe. It is in ………………

4. ………………………………………. retains the top spot

5. Microsoft founder Bill Gates gave away $……………………….. to charity.

6. Moscow has …………………..billionaires, the most of any major city.

7. The number of new billionaires in ………………… has doubled.

8. China's richest man's success symbolizes ………………………….

9. The Chinese government must do more to help its ………………

10. In the U.S.10 percent of the people own about ……………. percent of the nation's net worth.



  • Please fill in the blanks with one of the following words

A) although

B) in spite of

C) however


1. The wealth of the world's billionaires has increased ......................................... a difficult recession for most of the world

2. The wealth of the world's billionaires has increased ……………………………… most of the world has faced a difficult recession

3. Most of the world has faced a difficult recession.
…………………………………………. , the wealth of the world's billionaires has increased

4. ……………………………………… the number of billionaires has increased in China, many middle-class Chinese feel their government isn't doing enough to make ordinary people richer

5. Chinese consumers agree it is good for their country to have more billionaires. ……………………………………., the government should do more to make the ordinary people richer

6. ……………………………………. having more billionaires, China should do more to make ordinary people richer



  • Click HERE to have a look at the complete Forbes list

You can sort it by age, country, source and net worth to find out the answer to the following questions


1. Who's the youngest billionaire?

2. Who's the oldest?

3. Who's the "poorest"?

4. Who's the richest Argentine billionaire?