Review the Functions

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 400.

Money

Money is used for buying or selling goods, for measuring value and for storing wealth. Almost every man now has a money economy based on coins and paper bills of one kind or another. However, this has not always been true. In primitive societies a system of barter was used. Barter was a system of direct exchange of goods. Somebody could exchange a sheep, for example, for anything in the market-place that they considered to be of equal value (grain, shells, salt, and tobacco). Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system because people's precise needs seldom coincided. People needed a more practical system of exchange, and various money system developed based on goods which the members of a society recognized as having value. Precious metals gradually took over because, when made into coins, they were portable, durable, recognizable, and divisible into larger and smaller units of value.

American money comes in coins worth 1 (pennies), 5 (nickels), 10 (dimes), 25 (quarters), and 50, though half dollars aren't very common. Paper money is mostly in denominations of $1, $5, $10 and $20. Two, fifty and one-hundred dollar bills exist, but they aren't so common. Don't be surprised if a bank teller or store clerk looks very closely at a hundred dollar bill to make sure it's real!

British money comes in coins which are is follows. Coppers: one penny (1p), two pence (2p). Silver: five pence (5p), ten pence (10p), twenty pence (20p), fifty pence (50p). Gold: one pound (£1). There are bank notes at £5, £10, £20 and £50.

Banks are open in Britain from 9.30 to 3.30, Monday to Friday. Some are also open on Saturday mornings. Outside these times, you can often change money at Thomas Cook or other travel agents, during normal shop hours (9 to 5 or 5.30 p.m.). Outside London there are rarely any other places to change money.

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a) Act as a guide and give some advice or instructions to your visiting friend who has never been to a big city.

Model: You should get over your fear of a heavy traffic. You should keep to the right side of the road. You should remember the rules of crossing the street. You should be careful step ping on the escalator. You shouldn't smoke inside a bus or a trolley-bus.

b) Act as a doctor. Give some advice to your patient.

c) Act as a teacher. Give some corrections to your pupil.

d) Act as a directing manager of a firm. Give some instructions how to organize the work in it.

e) Act as a supervisor on university practice. Give some instructions to your students.