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1 Match the currencies to the countries. What is your country’s currency?
3 Calculate the price in euros of the items from the UK, China and the USA in the table in the article. Use the exchange rates below.
Do you pay more for products than people in other countries?
Look at this table and fi nd out.
Key Words currency exchange rate
My Maths File
5 Find out the price of three items in your country and in two other countries with a different currency. Convert the prices into your currency.
6 Make a poster with the information from Exercise 5. Include a table like the one in the article and sentences comparing the ítems.
Switzerland has the most expensive coffee.
Tickets to football matches are cheaper in Mexico than in my country.
dollar ($) euro (€) pound (£)
rand (R) yuan (¥)
China
France South Africa
The UK The USA
2 Read the magazine article and answer the questions.
1 How much do trainers cost in the UK? £60.00 2 In which country is a magazine more expensive
than a burger?
3 How many magazines can you buy for the price of a cinema ticket in China?
4 Name two places where you can find out about exchange rates.
EXCHANGERATES
£1 €1.20
¥1 €0.10
US$1 €0.75
4 1.39 Listen. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Use your euro prices from Exercise 3 to help you.
Price of products across the world
the UK China The USA France
£8.00 (€ ) ¥30 (€ ) $9.00 (€ ) €6.20
£2.20 (€ ) ¥14.50 (€ ) $3.60 (€ ) €3.50
£3.50 (€ ) ¥5 (€ ) $3.50 (€ ) €2.40
£60.00 (€ ) ¥388 (€ ) $55.00 (€ ) €50.00
Do the Maths
Do you know how to change one currency into another? Use our easy guide.
First, you must know the exchange rate. Exchange rates change every day. You can fi nd them online or in a newspaper or in banks and post offi ces.
Then do the Maths.
Price in currency B Price in currency A X
Exchange rate for 1 unit of currency A =
For example:
Price of a burger in South Africa = 17 rand Exchange rate: 1 rand = 0.10 euros How much does the burger cost in euros?
17 x 0.10 = 1.70
The burger costs 1.70 euros.
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Present simple and continuous1 Complete the conversation with the Present simple or Present continuous form of the verbs.
A 1 Do you want (want) to come out with us tonight? We 2 (go) to Pat’s house after her music lesson. You know she 3 (have) a music lesson at 5 p.m. on Fridays. Then we
3 Complete the conversation with the Past simple form of the verbs.
A What 1 did you do (do) at the weekend?
4 Complete the text with the Past continuous forms of the verbs.
Yesterday, everyone in our house 1 was doing (do) something different. My brother and his friends 2 (play) football in the garden. My dad
3 (fix) his bike. My mum 4 (make) a cake and
5 (listen) to the radio. And me? I 6 (lie) on my bed and 7 (read) my favourite magazine! What
8 you ? (do)
Past simple v Past continuous 5 Choose the correct option.
1 I was texting / texted my friend while I was walking / walked down the street. Then I was walking / walked into a tree!
2 We were watching / watched a film on TV when suddenly it stopped / was stopping working. So we weren’t seeing / didn’t see the 6 Make sentences using the correct form of
the adjectives.
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8 The weather today is better than yesterday.
9 Do you think French is easier than English?
10 In summer the beach is more crowded than in winter.
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too and enough
7 Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use the word in brackets.
1 You aren’t old enough to drive. (young) You are too young to drive.
2 I’m too short to reach that shelf. (tall) 3 You are too ill to go to school today. (well) 4 He isn’t strong enough to lift that heavy box. (weak) 5 This T-shirt is too small for me. (big) 6 The tickets are too expensive. (cheap) 7 That theme park ride was boring. It was too left in the bottle.
8 How time have we got before the lesson starts?
Speaking
Describing a place 1 Put the conversation in the correct order.What’s your new house like?
Come today, after school!
Permission
2 Complete the conversation with these words.
afraid Can can’t do mind OK if I stay over at Alex’s house tonight?
Mum Yes, I 5 ! You can’t stay over on a school night.
Paul Well, can you give me a lift home?
Mum No, I’m 6 not, Paul. Perhaps you should stay at home after all.
Asking for help
3 Choose the correct option.
A Could you give me a 1 hand / lend with this heavy box, Steve?
B 2 Sorry. / Sure.
A Thanks. 3 Would / Can you mind 4 carry / carrying it to the station for me?
B Sorry, I 5 don’t / can’t . I’m meeting my friend in five minutes and we’re going to watch a football match.
A Well, could you just carry it to the end of the road?
B 6 No problem. / No sure . You can get a taxi from there.
Vocabulary
Rooms and parts of the house1 Complete the words for rooms and parts of the house.
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7 That theme park ride was boring. It wasn’t fast enough.
8 We didn’t arrive early enough to get the best seats in the cinema.
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Furniture and household objects 2 Match the words on the left (1–10) to the
words on the right (a–j) to make furniture and household objects.
Adjectives to describe pictures
3 Complete the sentences with these adjectives.
amusing blurred colourful dull fake horrible interesting lovely old-fashioned silly
1 It doesn’t look very interesting – it looks orange and yellow flowers.
5 What a funny picture! It’s very .
Adjective + preposition
4 Complete the sentences with the correct preposition.
a If you get bored 1 with listening to music on your MP3 player, try downloading radio podcasts instead. There are podcasts for all kinds of programmes. If you are interested 2 plays, you can listen to stories or dramas, too. I get tired
3 the same old music so I sometimes listen to an online radio station. I’m keen 4 hip hop so my favourite one is called HipHop FM.
b We’re going to a theme park this weekend! I’m really excited 5 that. I’m not afraid 6 fast and dangerous rides. I love them!
c I hope I do well in my exams. I want my parents to be proud 7 me. I don’t want them to be angry 8 me.
Shopping nouns
5 Complete the sentences with these words.
bargains cashpoint coins
customers note sale
shop assistant shopping basket market stall
1 You can take money out of a machine called
6 He sells fruit and vegetables at the market. His is near the entrance.
Money verbs
6 Choose the correct option.
Brixton is a very popular market in London. People come there from all over the world to 1 buy / borrow things. Most items aren’t very expensive so you can usually find something you can 2 cost / afford . Markets are often cheaper than high street shops so you can
3 save / win money by shopping there. But stallholders usually want you to pay 4 in / by cash. They don’t usually have machines for 5 credit / spend cards. If you want to go to the market, I’ll 6 borrow / lend you a big shopping bag. You’ll need it for all your bargains!
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