Welcome to New Concept English Book 3, Lesson 27 reading session. Today we will focus on developing your English listening skills through proper pronunciation and natural speech patterns. This lesson will help you understand how advanced English texts should be read with appropriate pacing, intonation, and emphasis. Let's begin our journey to improve your English comprehension and speaking abilities.
Before we begin reading, let me explain our approach to this text. Lesson 27 is structured with clear paragraphs that flow naturally from one idea to the next. We will read with proper pacing, ensuring each word is pronounced clearly and each sentence maintains natural rhythm. Pay attention to how advanced English texts use varied sentence lengths and sophisticated vocabulary. Our reading will demonstrate proper British English pronunciation with appropriate pauses that help you understand the meaning and structure of each passage.
Nothing to sell and nothing to buy. It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comfort. Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us.
There are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service. The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop. Everyone has something to sell. Tramps seem to be the only exception to this general rule. Beggars almost sell themselves as human beings to arouse the pity of passers-by.
Nothing to sell and nothing to buy. It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comfort. Though it may be possible to measure the value of material goods in terms of money, it is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us. There are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service. The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid for at a shop. Everyone has something to sell. Tramps seem to be the only exception to this general rule. Beggars almost sell themselves as human beings to arouse the pity of passers-by.