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Task 2. Now read the text again and answer these questions in your own words.




1. What two reasons are given for saving your money in a bank account?

2. Why do people prefer to borrow money from banks?

3. Do banks do anything else for their customers other than store and lend money?

4. How do banks earn money?

5. Who decides how much money the bank keeps in reserve?

 

 

Speaking

Give a two-minute presentation on the history of money. First, read through text 1 again and make notes below on the following.

- bartering

- commodity money

- fiat money

You can also include recent developments not mentioned in the text, such as credit cards and digital money.

 

Writing

Write a promotional leaflet for a bank. The aim of the leaflet is to attract new customers and to inform existing customers about the services the bank offers.

 

Use an informal, friendly style like you see in advertisements. Organise the leaflet using the plan shown here.

 

Promotional Leaflet

 

Paragraph 1

Give a brief history of the bank and say how big it is today (to give confidence to customers).

Paragraph 2.

Explain what your main services are and what advantages you offer compared to other banks (for example, interest rates).

Paragraph 3.

Say what other services you offer and how they can be useful to your5 customers: for example, special savings schemes for certain people (students / pension schemes for workers) and Internet banking.

Paragraph 4.

Say how customers (or potential customers) can contact the bank (e-mail, web page, phone number, local branches, etc).

 

Write 200-250 words.

 


 

Part II

Money

Vocabulary

 

acceptability

accounting

accumulate wealth

bill of exchange ,

cash

check

checkbook money

coin

commodity money

credit money

cash

currency

foreign currency

domestic currency

cheque (check)

travellers check

bankers check

cheque book

to draw a cheque

to cash a cheque

bank-note (paper bill, paper note)

cost of expenditure

demand deposit

deteriorate

divisibility

durability

enhance ,

exchange ;

exchange rate

foreign exchange ,

fiat , ,

fiat money ,

figure ,

means of payment

medium of exchange

meet the conditions

mint

money

to make money

to spend money

to waste money

to save money

to lend money

to borrow money

to change money ,

to lose money

to owe money

to pay

to earn

to invest ,

electronic money

paper money

representative money

near money

payable on demand

purchasing power

record keeping

savings account ,

stability in value

stand for ,

standard of value

store of value

time deposit

transaction ,

uniformity

unit of accounting

value , ,

wealth ,

worth n. , ,

worth adj. ,

Vocabulary Exercises

Exc. 1. Look through the following words and say: a). which of them refer to English money: b). which refer to American money.

1) a ten pence piece

2) a quarter

3) a one pound point

4) a dollar bill

5) a five pound note

6) a penny

7) a dime

8) fifty cents





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