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Now find out about your relationship to money.
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5: You have total control over your finances. Perhaps you spend too much time thinking about money?
3-4: You have a healthy attitude to your financial affaires.
1-2: It is time for you to get organized. An accountant could help you with this.
0: You are in trouble! You need help from a financial professional. Get help now!
36. Match the speech bubbles (1-4) with the pictures 119 – 122.
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37. Match the beginnings (1-6) with the endings (a-f).
1.An advantage of the euro is that you don’t need to order foreign ……
2.I’d like to know how much I have in my bank ……
3.What’s the dollar-euro exchange ……
4.Don’t worry if the bank is closed; there’s a cash ……
5.When I travel on business, I always use a credit ……
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a)… rate today, please?
b)… machine where you can take out some money.
c)… statement gives details of all the money going in and out of your account.
d)… currency or traveller’s cheques when traveling in most of Europe.
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39. Are the statements true or false?
1.The euro is Europe’s first single currency since the Roman Empire.
2.More than 300 million people live in the *Eurozone.
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3.The Italian lira was Europe’s oldest currency. It ended with the euro.
4.Northern Ireland is part of the Eurozone.
5.The US dollar is the world’s most important currency.
6.The euro now covers the world’s biggest currency zone.
*The Eurozone = the group of countries which have adopted the euro as their currency
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is not in a common currency zone, would it be a good idea to join one? Let one of the students report your ideas to the rest of the group.
42. Complete the text for the Australian dollar against the euro. Try to use all the words from the box at least once.
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Let’s look back for a moment at how the dollar has performed against the euro ¹…… the last six months. It stayed steady for the first month of the year at around 0.93 euros to one dollar. 2 …… February however, its value fell 3 …… two points 4 …… 0.93 5 …… 0.91 euros. 6 …… the second half of February the dollar rose 7 …… almost 0.96 euros, where it
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remained stable for the first half of March. 8 …… the next six weeks, it dropped 9 …… almost 10 points 10 …… 0.86 euros. It then increased again slowly 11 …… May and June.
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2.A piece of paper which shows what you bought, and proves how much you paid for something.
5.‘You ……. me Є50, when are you going to pay me back?’
6.The official money of a country or region, e.g. US dollar, the euro.
8.Paper money.
9.The noun from ‘to pay’
10.Where to keep your money safe.
13.‘I didn’t have enough money to buy car so I asked my brother for a …… .’ и
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