Earning and Spending Money Wisely

1. Earning and Spending Money Wisely

2. Warming-up Questions • 1. What do you think is spending money wisely? Are you spending your money wisely? • 2. What do you spend your money on? • 3. Where do you often do your shopping? • 4. Do you have some money-saving tips?

3. Proverbs & Useful Expressions • A penny saved is a penny earned. • Penny wise, pound foolish. • to buy a pig in a poke • to make both ends meet

4. Department Store Shopping Mall Supermarket

5. bargain: something offered, bought, or sold at a price favorable to the buyer • mail order: an order for goods to be sent by mail • postage: the amount charged for mailing a letter or package • delivery: taking (letters parcels, goods, etc.) to houses, to the buyer(s) • refund: repay, give back or pay back (money, etc.) • astronomical: very big

6. Listening Practice

7. 1. In the basement. • 2. Five fifty pounds. • 3. Soup plates (and teacups) • 4. Four pounds. • 5. To the third floor. • 6. 150 pounds. • 7. A supermarket. • 8. In the roof garden.

8. Mail Order CA 252Jules 尤利斯转椅 ¥349 收纳架 蓝色钢质 椅宽56cm×深56cm 座位高度41cm至53cm CF 200Micael 电脑桌 ¥1095 蓝色钢质桌子搁架主机架 长104cm×宽50cm×高166cm

9. Priority Order Form • Name: Mrs. Granger • Initials: GS • Address: The Millhouse Salisbury Road, Little Afton, Farnbury. Postcode: Not known Date for the Order: the 15th of June

10. Tracksuit SP302 • Code No.: • Color: • Quantity: • Size: • Unit Price: • Postage & Delivery: white one medium, women’s £ 18 /

11. D.I.Y. Tool Kit WK15 • Code No.: • Color: • Quantity: • Size: • Unit Price: • Postage & Delivery: / one / £ 21 /

12. Lady’s Watch TM431 • Code No.: • Color: • Quantity: • Size: • Unit Price: • Postage & Delivery: red one / £ 15 /

13. Total £ 54 • Total Price: • Total Postage & Delivery: • Grand Total: £2 £ 56 Telephone No. : 3623624

14. Way of Payment • Cash • Credit Card No.: • Check No.: / 0582/74343/512 Time Limit for Delivery: In about a fortnight

15. A Claim for Expenses 2. At ten o’clock. 6. On the 9th May 1. On the 10th May. 3. At five o’clock. 7. £ 36 4. £ 18.50 8. £ 12 5. £ 19.50 9. £ 88.50 10. £ 2.50

16. F • The one-day course was called “Word Processor”. • David felt that he had learned a lot from the course. • David worked in Accounts. • The course was held at the Institute of Technology. • It is possible to take a cheap day return. T T F F

17. T • After the course was over, David stayed there and practiced on the computer for some time. • The man who offered to give David a lift did not live very near him. • When the car broke down on their way home, it was towed away quickly. • David stayed in the Park Hotel because most of the hotels were full of people. • The cashier did not think David had spend too much money. F F T F

18. Language Points • The first train from London to Westhampton wouldn’t have got me down in time to be at the college by ten. • It took ages. • Your total expense come to 88.50 pounds – that seems rather astronomical to me for a one-day course.

20. Homework • Listen to “Part V” and do the exercise. • Listen to English listening materials for at least half an hour each day. Do a piece of intensive listening and imitate the pronunciation and intonation of the listening material. • Have a discussion with your partner on how to spend money wisely in our life.

21. Have a nice week!