Underline the correct item.
Lisa has lived in the United States for/since 2000.
He hasn’t been to the gym for/sincea whole month.
She’s had that bike since/for last July.
She has worked in that shop since/for two weeks.
He’s played football since/for she was five.
Exercise 1.Complete these sentences with a verb in the correct tense.
| be worth borrow can’t afford charge cost earn inherit invest lend owe save take out waste |
| My uncle died and left me £200. I put some money aside every week for my next holiday. I asked my brother to give me €10 until next week. My brother gave me €10 until next week. I often spend money on stupid things. I don’t have enough money to buy that car. I had to pay the mechanic €100to repair my car. I went to the cash machine and got €200. I bought a book. It was $25. I bought some shares in British Telecom. Jim gave me $ 100. I haven’t paid it back yet. I work in supermarket. They pay me €2000 a month. I could sell my house for about €200,000. | I … £200 from my uncle. I … money every week. I … €10 from him. He … me €10. I often … money. I … to buy that car. The mechanic …€100. I … €200 the cash machine. The book … (me) $25. I … Jim $ 100. I … some money. I … €2000 a month. My house … about €200,000. |
Exercise 2.Discuss following questions.
What do you understand by the following proverbs and sayings about money? Do you have similar ones in your language?
1 There are some things money can’t buy.
2 Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
3 Lend your money and lose a friend.
4 Money can’t buy you happiness.
Exercise 3.Work in pairs. Answer these questions using useful phrases and proverbs.
1 How much money do you think you need to be rich? 2 What is the currency in your country? 3 What is an exchange rate? 4 What’s pocket money? 5 What was the last expensive thing you bought?
| 6 What would you buy if you won a lot of money? 7 Does money make you happy? 8 What’ the cash machine? 9 Do you spend more, or save more money? |
Exercise 4.Listen [T.5] to a new bulletin. How many different news items are there?
Answer the questions.
How many people were injured in the car crash?
How fast was the lorry going?
How many workers have walked out of the Peugeot factory?
What pay rise do they want?
How many more unemployed is there this year?
How many are there in total?
By how much have house prices increased in the last five years?
How much does a three-bed roomed house cost in south-east England?
Exercise 5.Retell the listened text.
Exercise 6.Read the text and translate the 1st paragraph of the text.
Money has no smell
Money has various uses in modern world. It is a measure of value of goods and services, a means of exchanging such goods and services and a way to store up power so that one can use it later. As a measure of value, it is obviously of the very greatest use.
There is a saying “Money has no smell”. People say that these words belong to Vespasian, an emperor of Rome. Suetonius, a Roman historian, writes that the words were used by Vespasian on the following occasion. The emperor’s son Titus reproached his father, that he had introduced a tax on public lavatories. Vespasian told him to smell the money he was holding in his palm and to see if the smell was not foul. Titus said that the smell was not foul. Vespasian remarked that money was in the urine, because it had been just paid as the tax on lavatories.
Exercise 7.Answer the questions.
1 What are the main uses of money?
2 Who does the words “Money has no smell” belong to?
3 Who was Vespasian?
4 What occasion were these words used on?
Exercise 8.Match the meaning of these Russian proverbs with their English equivalents.
| Деньгинаулиценеваляются. | Money has no smell. |
| Деньгимогутсделатьвсе. | Money is a good servant but a bad master. |
| Человек должен распоряжаться деньгами, а не деньги человеком | Money doesn’t grow on trees. |
| Деньги, потраченные на образование, никогда не пропадут зря. | Money answers all things. |
| Деньг не пахнут. | Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. |
Check yourself
1.Choose the correct variant: You look as if you … just …up.
a) have… wakes
b) has… woken
c) had… wake
d) have..woken
2. Choose the correct variant:We… each other since we were children.
a) know
b) have known
c) have been knowing
d) has known
3. Complete the proverb: Money has no …
a) color
b) smelling
c) smell
d)shape
4. Choose the correct word for the given definition: to get money after death of a close relative
a) lend
b) borrow
c) inherit
d) waste
Glossary
| English | Russian | Kazakh |
| currency ['kʌr(ə)n(t)si] | денежное обращение, валюта | ақша айналымы, валюта |
| to inherit [ɪn' herɪt] | унаследовать | мұралыққа алу |
| to charge [tʃa:dʒ] | запрашивать цену | белгілі баға сұрау |
| emperor ['emp(ə)rə] | император | император |
| foul [faul] | неприятный | жағымсыз |
| be worth [wə:θ] | стоить | тұру (бағасы) |
| to reproach [ri'prəutʃ] | упрекать | айыптау, жазғыру |
| increase [ɪnˈkriːs] | возрастать, увеличиваться | арту, көбейтілу |
| borrow [ˈbɒrəʊ] | взять взаймы | қарызға алу |
| lend [lɛnd] | дать взаймы | қарызға беру |
| Office hours №3 | Make up a topic ‘ Money. How to save them?” and retell it. | |
| LIW № 7 | Read the text “George’s trial” and translate it. (p.161) |
References
Main:
1. Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Intermediate level Student’s book. Oxford. 2012.
2. Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig “New English File”. Intermediate Work book.Oxford, 2012.
Additional:
3. John and Liz Soars New Headway. Intermediate level.Student’s book.Oxford, 2012.
4. John and Liz Soars New Headway. Intermediate level.Work book. Oxford, 2012.
5. Tim Falla, Paul A Davie “Solutions”. Intermediate level Student’s book. Oxford, 2012.
| HAND OUT № 6 (66) Discipline: English as a foreign languageCredits -2 Intermediate level Practical lesson Lexical theme: Changing your life Grammar: Present Perfect Continuous Teacher: assistant professor Nussipaliyev Nurzhan Serikovich |
WARMING-UP.Write a list of words which you associate with birth, marriage and death.
GRAMMAR COMMENT
● We use the Present perfect continuous to talk about recent activities. It answers the question ‘How have you been spending your time?’: I’ve been writing letters. I haven’t been working very hard. ● Like the present perfect simple, this tense cannot be used with past time expressions, but we can use it with expressions such us recently, this week, over the last few days:
I’ve been writing a lot of letters recently. I haven’t been working very hard this week. ● Forms of the present perfect continuous :
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