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Unit 10
Money Reading; Speaking
6 Monitor and prompt students
to keep talking, but as this MONEY UNIT 10
is a fluency activity, do not
M NEY:
interrupt to correct mistakes.
£
While monitoring, note down M NEY:
any common errors to review
as a class at the end by writing PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
a mix of correct and incorrect
sentences on the board, ensuring
anonymity. Ask students to Thousands of years ago, people started using
identify and correct the mistakes metal coins as money to buy and sell things.
But the coins were heavy, so paper money was
during feedback. invented. Different payment systems evolved
through time and now we also use credit and
debit cards. These cards often have to be
put into a machine and then a PIN has to be WE ARE
Homework tapped in – but that practice is disappearing CASHLESS
with contactless cards and smartphone apps
Please note we only
Ask students to keep a journal for becoming more and more popular. So, cash has accept credit/debit cards
mostly been replaced by alternative payment
two or three days and make a note methods. And things don’t stop there: it’s at this location
of the money they spend, what they possible that some countries will soon be
completely cashless. For example, it’s predicted
spend it on and whether they could that no one in Sweden will be using cash at all
have saved the money instead. by about 2025.
So, what is the future of money? Twenty years Worry-free shopping. No machines or long
from now, will we still be using cash? The answer check-out queues. No more heavy wallets or purses.
is undeniably no. And it’s highly likely that bank This all sounds very positive, but there are possible
Activity idea Extension cards are on their way out as well. This is happening disadvantages, too. Technological advancement,
already: the use of smartphones, smartwatches as we all know, brings many positives but also
The article includes several time and electronic wristbands has allowed people, forces us to consider other matters. Will fraud,
expressions which refer to periods in many situations, to avoid using cash or cards. especially online, get easier? And as our money
systems become more dependent on computers,
Some apps let us transfer money from phone to
of time or points in time. Point phone like a text message, which makes it a quick how can we make sure that the computers don’t
out the first example to students and easy way to repay a friend if you owe them fail? Security might get better as we increase our
use of things like fingerprint and face identification,
money. Increasingly, people are making ‘invisible’
(Thousands of years ago in line 1). payments for things like car rides – you choose but will they be used to invade our privacy by
In pairs, students race to underline at a car, you take the ride, the money automatically gathering information about our movements?
By far, that’s the most important question.
comes out of your registered card. You can even
least four more time expressions in include a tip for your driver this way! Perhaps we Questions like these won’t go away easily. We are
the article. Answers: now, by about will soon be doing this in places like supermarkets, in a state of change, and there are many different
too – you’ll get your goods, a reader will record the
2025, Twenty years from now, in details of what you’ve bought as you leave and future possibilities. Perhaps unimagined payment
methods will be developed. It will be interesting
20 years’ time. the amount will be taken automatically from your to see how things move forward, but one thing is
account. And if you need a refund, the money is put for sure – in 20 years’ time, we won’t be buying,
back in your account as easily as it was taken out. selling and paying the same way that we do now.
SPEAKING
6 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
1 Do you think a cashless society would be a good idea? Why or why not?
2 Do you think there will still be coins and banknotes in 30 years’ time? Why or why not?
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