Money Money Money

no materials

oral, written

30 min.

Objectives

• The learner can understand expressions related to money.
  
• The learner can give tips for saving money.

Preparation

Find expressions about money, e.g.
Time is money
I feel like a million bucks.
On the house!
Pay your dues.

Instructions

• Introduce the expressions one by one. Let the learners guess their meaning.
  
• Ask if they have an equivalent in their mother tongue.
  
• Discuss if there are any cultural differences when it comes to money.
  
• Discuss tips for saving money, e.g.
  
  • Put on a sweater when it is cold.
    
  • Take a quick shower.
    
  • Buy cleaning vinegar instead of several cleaning
  • products, it is
    
  • cheap and usable for almost anything.
    
  • Go to the market by the end of the day. Prices go down.
    
  • Buy generic.
    
  • Don’t go shopping hungry.
    
  • Pay your bills on time, to avoid penalties.

Tips for the instructor

• Share fun facts about money or make a quiz.
  • Banknotes are not made of paper, but of cotton and linen.
    
  • The Romans were the first to stamp the image of a living person on a coin.
    
  • The first paper money was made in China over 1,000 years ago.