G present perfect and past simple V money P saying numbers 1 VOCABULARY & LISTENING money a GPP Listen to a song about money and complete it with these words. What is‘Ka-ching’? afford blow broke r greedy loan mall b Now look at words 1-10 in the song and match them with their meanings. credit card earn mortgage spend ‘A______ (verb) _ to give or pay money for something B (noun) money that a person or abanklends you to have enough money to buy something a shopping centre (US) having no money (informal) small plastic card you use to buy things to get money by working ‘wanting more money, ec than you really need tospend alot of money ‘on something (informal) J —— (noun) the money bank lends you to buya house Listen again and read the lyrics, What do you think the song is saying? | Money always makes people happy. 2 The wortd has become obsessed with money. 3 The singer would like to have more money. d © p.i47 Vocabulary Bank Money. : -ching We live ina! ittle world that teaches every little boy and girl to?____ as much as they can possibly, then turn around and spend it foolishly. We've created us a mess, wet _ the money that we don't possess, Our religion is to go and 5 itall, ‘0 it’s shopping every Sunday at the & All we ever want is more, a lot more than we had before. ‘So take me to the nearest store. ‘Gan you hear it ring? 4 It makes you want to sing, = It's such a beautiful thing ~ Kachina Lots of diamond rings, the happiness it brings, you'l live lke a king, with lots of money and things. f When you're”. goand geta® ‘Take out another 9____ on your home, consolidate so you can ®____ to goand spend some more when you get Ka-ching!2 GRAMMAR present perfect and past simple 4 Shelley and Ben are having an argument about money. Read what Shelley says and complete the dialogue with Ben's answers from the box below. Then try to guess his last answer. We've had it for at least three years. Maybe longer. Its old No. What is it? ‘Why not? Yes: ve just bought its Tcan'. Shelley Is that a new camera? Ben Yes I've just bought it Shelley What's wrong with our old camera? he Shelley Old? How long have we had it? A year? = Shelley Three years? I'm sure we bought last year. Look. We can't afford a new camera Ben 4 Shelley Have you seen this? Ben s__ Shelley The gas bill. It arrived this morning, And we haven't paid the phone bill yet. Take it back _ tothe shop and get your money back. Ben 6 Why not? b @22 Listen and check. ¢ Ip pairs, read the dialogue again and underline five examples of the present perfect and two examples of the past simple. Then answer the questions. Which form of the verb do we use for..? 1 acompleted action in the past 2 things which started in the past and are true now 3 recent actions when we don't say exactly when 4 recent actions when we say exactly when d_ © p.132 Grammar Bank 2A. Read the rules and do the exercises. 3 SPEAKING In pairs, interview each other with the questionnaire. Ask for more information. Have you ever wasted enoney on something you've never used? Yes, | bought an exercise bike g Why did you buy 7 Ce Tn (waste) money on something you've never used (ell) anything on the Intemet (ose) a credit card or your wallet (ave) for something for a long time (win) any money (e.g. in a lottery) (be) robbed (lend) money to someone who didn't pay you back COC aaah 2d (buy) anything on the Internet (be) to a mall or shopping centre (buy) anyone a present (use) a credit card (take) money out of a cash machine (borrow) money from someone in your family On)4 READING a. Which of these sentences best describes your attitude to money? 1 All L want is enough money to enjoy life. 2 Money is very important to me. like to earn ‘as much as possible. 3 would be happy to ive with et money and wer possessions. b You're going to read an article about a woman who lives without money, Why do you think she does it? How do you think she survives? Read the article to find out. ¢ Read the article and answer the questions. 1 What was Heidemarie’s job? 2. What possessions does she have now? 3. How did the experiment start? e 4 Where has she lived since the experiment started? 5 Does she still work? {6 What does she do when she needs something? 7. What is she trying to show with her experiment? 8 What did she do with the money she earned from her book? Match the highlighted phrasal verbs with their definitions. Write the verbs in the infinitive, 1 throw away put into the rubbish bin 8, Please... those sweet papers. stop (doing something) e.g. He wants f0 ... smoking. arrive, appear €¢g invited 20 people to my party but only 10 will 4 give something to somebody without wanting anything in retarn eg, She decided to... her old clothes to the local hospital. start anew company or organization eg My brothers going to. a sofware company be responsible for somebody or something eg. Nurses... people in hospital. In pairs, answer the questions. 1 Do you agree with Heidemarie that...? + all jobs are equally important + most people don't like their jobs + people judge you according to how much you earn 2 What do you think of Heidemarie? ‘Would you like to have her as a friend? My life without money tthe age of 54 Heidemarie gave up her job as a Psychotherapist, gave away all her money and her flat and threw away her credit cards. Today, apart from a few clothes (three sweaters, two skits, two paits of shoes, and a coat) and a few personal belongings, she doesn’t own anything. ttall began as a one-year experiment. Inher home city of Dortmund she set up a ‘swapping circle’ where people swap services without using money, for example, a haircut for 2 ‘mathematics class. To prove that this could work she decided to give up using money fora year. But when the year ended she continued and has not used money since then. [At first she house-st for fiends who were on holiday. She stayed in their house in return for watering the plants and looking ater their animals. At the moment she is staying in a student residence where she can sleep, have a shower, or use ‘2 computer in retum for cooking forthe young people who lve thete, She also ‘works’ as a psychotherapist. ‘Before | treated very wealthy people but now |help anyone who tums up. ‘Sometimes they give me something in return, but not abways! EE Heidemarie says,‘ can five thanks to my contacts. Alot of people who know me understand what ''m doing and want to help me. When | need a bus ticket, for example, ora new tube of toothpaste | think, “Who can | ask? What can | give them in. tetum If] want to go tothe cinema, | might offer ‘to look after somebody's children for the afternoon. It is one of the mistakes of our society that most people do something they don't like just to eam "money and spend it on things they don't need. ‘Many people judge you according to how much ‘you eam. In my opinion all jobs are equally important. ‘You may not earn a lot of money but you may be ‘worth a lot as a person. That's my message! fondest tenor from the sales of My life without money? “gave it all away.5 VOCABULARY & PRONUNCIATION saying numbers 4 @ Write the numbers. Then listen and repeat, Practise saying them. fifteen - fifty ahundred seven hundred and fifty ‘one thousand five hundred seven thousand five hundred ___— seventy-five thousand _—— seven hundred and fifty thousand — amillion seven and a half million b GM Complete the numbers. Then listen and check. ¢ In pairs, practise saying these numbers. % 0.7 1% 2.8 30% £20 * 100% 2,800 €600 9,250 $200,000 3.990,000 6 LISTENING & SPEAKING 95 a @5) Listen to a news bulletin. J How many different news items are there? Listen again and answer the ‘questions with a number. 1 How many people were injured in the crash? 2 How fast was the lorry going? 3 How many workers have walked ‘out of the Peugeot factory? 4 What pay rise do they want? 5 How many more unemployed are there this year? 6 How many are there in total? 7 By how much have house prices increased in the last five years? 8 How much does a three-bedroomed house cost in south-east England? € Answer the questions with a number, percentage, etc. Ifyou don’t know the exact number, use about or appraximately. 1 What's the population of...2 your country your town / city 2 What proportion of people in your country...? speak good English have more than two children haveadog smoke 3 How much do these things cost? ‘acup of coffee alaptop computer a small flat in the centre of town anewspaper aDVD small carVOUT ar TG Complete with a verb in the correct tense. borrow cant afford charge cost earn inherit inyest lend owe /o0/ save take out waste /weist/ 1 My uncle died and left me £2000. T______ £2000 from my uncle, 2. I put some money aside every week for my next holiday. 1 money every week. 3 Lasked my brother to give me €10 until next week. I_____ € 10 from him. 4. My brother gave me €10 until next week. He ____ me €10. 5. Toften spend money on stupid things. Loften — money. 6 don't have enough money to buy that car. 1____to buy that car. 7 Thad to pay the mechanic £100 to repair my car. ‘The mechanic ___ me £100, 8 went to the cash machine and got €200. Ie £€ 200 from the cash machine 9 Tbought a book, It was $25, ‘The book —__ (me) $25. 10 Jim gave me £100. I haven't paid it back yet. i Jim £100. 11. Tbought some shares in British Telecom, 1______ some money. 12. I work in a supermarket. They pay me €2000a month. 1_____ €2000 a month. 13 I could sell my house for about € 200,000. Myhouse ___ about 204000. Preposition the dinner lastnight. = 2 When can you pay me the money [ent you? 3 Would you lke to pay cash or credit card? __, 4 Ispent €50 books yesterday. = 5 { don't like lending money friends. 6 T borrowed a lot of money the bank 7 They charged us €60 a bottle of wine & 3 Nouns ‘Match the words and definitions. cash machine Kae mafiza’ coin loan mortgage 'mo:gid3/ note salary tax 1 — A piece of paper money. 2 _____ A piece of money made of metal 3 ____ Money a person gets for the work he / she does. 42 Money that you pay to the government. 5 _— Money that somebody (or a bank) lends you. 6 —____.. Money that you borsow from a bank to buy a house. 7 — A.machine inside or outside a bank where you can get money. Can you remember the words on this page? Test yourself or a partner. Opa LEED MultiROM www.oup.com/elt/englishfile/intermediate1 Numbers 1-20 2 Numbers 20-1,000 Match the words with the numbers. Write the numbers. twelve twenty eleven three 30 thirty /033ti/ cightecn five fifteen seven thirty-one 1 one fay. Bee forty-seven 3. three fifty 4 four Afri 5 sixty ieee sisty-three 4 seventy 8 ight /en/ eee 9 nine sishty ae —— siaiy-ax u Mlevnl ae e ninety-four i ee /one hundred /a "handrad/ 14 Bilan two hundred and fifty : /one thousand /o 'Gauzand/ 16 sixteen Op7 17 seventeen, i 40 19 nineteen ons 28 783 499 BO. Tes 55 34 42, | 140 | ‘MultiROM_ wwwoup.com/elt/englishfile/elementary1 You He / She / We You ‘They He/She /It | didn’t work didn't go didn't have ‘one vowel + one consonant = double consonant consonant + y> ied 5B a Rewrite the sentences in the past simple with yesterday. b_ Complete the sentences with a verb in the past simple. ee coe ye notbook land stay use the Internet. used the Internet yesterday. __ Se wet wei. 1 Latch TV. 2 Do you listen 1 sumed on the TV. tothe radio? - 1 We ima three-star hotel last year. 3 We study English. 2 They a table and the restaurant was full. 4: He doesn't work. 3 ‘you the football on TV lastnight? 5 Thefilm finishes 4 Sorry. it was your birthday yesterday. 317.00, 51 with my parents when I was a student. 6 Tdon’t like the film. 6 Why you tobe adoctor? 7 Does she smoke? Zit | 7 He late for work and the boss was angry. 8 They play tennis. 8 When the plane she ____ her mobile phone. 5C ‘a Complete the text with the verbs in brackets in the past simple. Yesterday was my birthday. (be) My boyfriend ' mea beautiful jacket. (buy) In the evening we? ‘out. (go) P iy new jacket. (Wear) We! fora Chinese restaurant (look) but we® ___ find one, (not can) sowe® dinner in our favourite Italian restaurant. (have) After that we ? film. (see) ‘Then we* ___ two friends at a nightclub. (meet) We? ___ for two hours. (dance) We __home until 3.00. (not get) 14 __ very tired, (be) and 1 __ straight to bed. (go) b Complete the questions in the past simple. Did you go out lastnight? (you / go out) 1 What? (you/ wear) 2 Where (you / go) SWinte Di (you / do) 4 ____with you? (your sister / go) 5 What to-eat? (you/ have) 6 What time (the party / finish) 7 What time __? (you/ get home) 8 good time? (you / have)