Warm-up

Objectives  Read magazine and newspaper articles, and advertisements.  Practise shopping, bargaining, complaining and selling.  Listen to a radio programme, shopping dialogues and a song.

 Write an advertisement.  Learn about quantity words and expressions as well as infinitives.

Step1 Introduce some kinds of money

Hong Kong dollars

What are these coins?

pound

Mark, Germany

Franc, France& Belgium & Switzerland Canadian dollar

dollars

JPY

Step2 words & phrases related to money poor / rich / wealthy make money / earn a living cost/ spend / pay …for…/ lose need / be short of / borrow/ lend / debt save / bargain / collect / raise

Step3 Some English sayings. The love of money is the root of all evil. Money makes the world go round. Money makes the mare go. Money is not everything. Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

If your Riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to the other world? (Benjamin Franklin, American president ) 如果财富是你的，那么你为什么不 把它们和你一起带到另一个世界去 呢？ ( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.)

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. (Benjamin Franklin, American president ) 要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱 试试。 ( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.)

Creditors have better memories than debtors. (Benjamin Franklin, American president) 放债的比借债的记忆 好。 ( 美国总统 富兰 克林. B.)

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend. (Voltaire, French thinker) 人世间所有的荣华富 贵不如一个好朋友。 ( 法国思想家 伏尔泰 )

Money is a good servant and a bad master. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher ) 金钱是善仆, 也是恶主。 ( 英国哲学家 培 根. F.)

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher) 金钱好比粪肥, 只有撒到在大地才是有 用之物。 ( 英国哲学家 培根. F.)

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. (Albert Einstein, American scientist ) 有时候一个人为不花钱得 到的东西付出的代价最高。 ( 美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A.)

Step4: Talking Look at the list below, what is important to you? Tell the class. to have lots of money/ a good job/ a big car to be healthy/ with my family/ with my friends to help other people/ to do well in exams

Try to use the following sentence structures to talk about it: The most important thing to me is … Compared to/ with money, I think … Being healthy is much more important than…

Step5 Listen: Which of the people in the photos (A-D) are speaking?

Step2 words & phrases related to money poor / rich / wealthy make money / earn a living cost/ spend / pay …for…/ lose need / be short of / borrow/ lend / debt save / bargain / collect / raise

Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box in the correct form. Key words: borrow, collect, earn, lend, lose, make, need, save, spend

1. If you ____ money, you can ask a friend to ____ you some or _______ money from a bank. need lend borrow

2. His company ______ a lot of money and so he _____ a good salary. 3. She is careful with money---she does not ______ very much. She _____ ￡ 40 a week. 4. At the moment she __________ money for charity. makes earns spend saves is collecting

Tapescript 1. Mm, well, I’ve got a good job. I work very hard and I _______a good______. I’ll be honest --- I like _________money, _________on clothes. Why not? I’ve earned it, haven’t I? B earn salary especially spending

2. Well, people think too much about money-- -they think money____________________. But you don’t _______ money that much … I think the _______________thing is to try to help other people. I mean people who really need help. I am in two charities. We _________money for children in poor countries … C brings you happiness most important collect need

3. I’ve been ____________for five years now. It’s very difficult to get a job at my age, you know. And I’ve had a lot of personal problems. I don’t like ________, but I have to. I think a lot of people don’t know how easy it is to _________________ A out of work begging get into my situation.

4. Personally, I think it’s important to give money to charity, especially to charities for children. I mean most of us have some extra money, don’t we? I’m not very rich, but I try to give as much money as I can. D

3. Complete the sentences with the verbs in the box in the correct form. Key Words borrow, collect, earn, lend, lose, make, need, save, spend

Debating and writing

Look back at the list in Exercise 1 and divide the values into ‘material’ (e.g. having a big car) and ‘non- material’ values, e.g. (having friends). Write these in two columns and elicit more suggestions of material and non-material values to add to the columns. Step 1

In groups, choose three material values and three non-material values that are important for everybody. Then exchange ideas, justifying your decisions. Then write an article to narrate( 叙述 ) your own choice and the reason why you do so. Step 2