Money, Money

Week 8^th – 10^th April

Easter is over.

I hope you had time for relaxing and also for doing your homework!

I heard from Gabi and he was glad with his exam. He was optimistic about it, so I think he must have passed.

Do you remember what we did in the week before Easter holidays?

We corrected a “Use of English” paper from a sample test. “Dinosaur Discoveries”, “The Best Books”, “Volunteer Project in Lesotho”, homonyms and rewriting.

As promised, we practised the “speaking” part for the FCE test.

 We talked about money.

Rich, affluent, loaded, wealthy and well-off are synonyms.

·         Which one is rather formal?

·         Which one is very informal?

·         Which one is often used in negative sentences?

Poor, hard up, penniless, broke are also synonyms.

·         Which one is informal?

·         Which one is informal but not used before a noun?

·         Which one is rather literary?

We also learnt some idioms related to money.

·         Do people nowadays find difficult to make ends meet?

·         Have you ever been in the red?

·         Is anybody in your family tight-fisted?

·         Do you know anybody who spends money like water?

·         Politicians think that citizens lived beyond their means and that was the beginning of their economic difficulties.

And we finished with a listening.

We listened to an interview with the vice president of Women’s World Banking.

She talked about how that bank lends money to women in developing countries as a means of making them more independent. In this way, women can also help in the household economy.

She gave three examples of how their bank helped three women in the DR (Dominican Republic), India and Jordan.

Would you like to listen to some songs related to money?

 Here's a link:

 Top 10 Money Songs