Warm-up

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

 Write an advert.  Learn about quantity words and expressions as well as infinitives. Draw your attention to the unit objectives at the top of the page. Which of the activities do most often in Chinese and which least often. Do your have any problems with any of these activities in Chinese?

1. 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

Look at the title of the unit and think of any sayings in Chinese that refer to money. Then tell you some English sayings. The love of money is the root of all evil. Money makes the world go round. Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Some more English sayings about money: 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 )

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

Example: The most important thing to me is to be healthy. … Students discuss whether they think these sayings are true.

Introduce some kinds of money

2. Listen Which of the people in the photos (A-D) are speaking?

Tape script 1. Mm, well, I’ve got a good job. I work very hard and I earn a good salary. I’ll be honest. I like spending money, especially on clothes. Why not? I’ve earned it, haven’t I? B

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

3. I’ve been out of work 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 begging, but I have to. I think a lot of people don’t know how easy it is to get into my situation. A

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

Ask students to read the Key Words and find three pairs of ‘near opposites’ (borrow/lend, save/spend, lose/win). Remind students of the work they did on word stress in the previous unit and ask them where the stress comes in borrow and collect.

Example He lost his wallet yesterday when he was in a crowded bus. 1. If you ____ money, you can ask a friend to ____ you some or _______ money from a band. 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

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 nonmaterial 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

The End Good Bye!