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- Vocabulary - Facts
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Conversation questions
- Listening - Role play -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print
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Lesson plans
- Webquests -
Interactive games -
Poems
- Stories -
Cartoons - Songs - Idioms and Proverbs - Superstitions -
Animations / Videos




Pages complémentaires :

Argent (en civilisation) :
Ressources
- The EURO

+ Magasins + Buy Nothing Day + Chiffres / Nombres + The bank

+ Poverty + Pocket money

 

 

Pictures :

 

 

 

  • A bank - vocabulary (waze.net)

 

 

 

Vocabulary :

 

  • The layman's finance crisis glossary
    "The current financial crisis has thrown terminology from the business pages onto the front page of newspapers, with jargon now abounding
    everywhere from the watercooler to the back of a taxi.

    Here is a guide to many of the business terms currently cropping up regularly, as well as some of the more exotic words coined to describe some of the social effects of the credit crunch."
    ex. : Stagflation
    = "The dreaded combination of inflation and stagnation - an economy that is not growing while prices continue to rise."

    (BBC)

 

  • NEWSHOUR EXTRA FINANCIAL CRISIS GLOSSARY (PBS)

  • L'anglais des affaires : Business English Glossary (e-anglais.com)

  • Financial Glossary (CNN)

  • The layman's finance crisis glossary
    "The current financial crisis has thrown terminology from the business pages onto the front page of newspapers, with jargon now abounding everywhere from the watercooler to the back of a taxi.
    Here is a guide to many of the business terms currently cropping up regularly, as well as some of the more exotic words coined to describe
    some of the social effects of the credit crunch."

    (BBC News)

  • bailout
    = "financial assistance given to an insured bank or savings institution suffering a loss of earnings resulting from loan losses, deteriorating market conditions..."

    (allbusiness.com)

    Bailout - a cartoon (blackcommentator.com)





  • golden parachute - n. Slang
    "An employment agreement that guarantees a key executive lucrative severance benefits if control of the company changes hands followed
    by management shifts."

    (thefreedictionary.com)


    golden parachute
    "A large payment that is made to top corporate executives in the event that the executive's job is somehow eliminated, perhaps because the company is taken over. The payment may include cash, stock options, or a bonus."

    (yourdictionary.com)

  • The underground economy or black market
    "is a market consisting of all commerce on which applicable taxes and/or regulations of trade are being avoided.
    The term is also often known as the underdog, shadow economy, black economy or parallel economy."
    (Wikipedia)

 

  • Money - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son (languageguide.org)

 

  • Money (learnenglish.de)
    Useful Vocabulary - Build Up - Dialogue - Games and Tests
  • Money - 20 words with definitions (englishclub.com) - Lien modifié
  • BUSINESS WORDS - "Vous allez pouvoir écouter et écrire 175 mots liés à l'anglais de la vente et du commerce."
    (Yvan Baptiste)
  • British slang glossary (zoo.ufl.edu) :
    Clothing - Punctuation & Abbreviations - Food, Drink, & Drugs - Exclamations, Crudity & Insults (Rough Slang) - Idiom/Phrases - Transport & Automotive Sport (note "Sport", not "Sports") - Brand Names & Generics - Household Items - Television & Radio & children's books - Money - Student/Cambridge/Oxbridge


 

Facts :

 

 

  • Strangers to get €280,000 legacy
    "A WOMAN has left all her €280,000 fortune to about 200 people she met by chance through life.
    Jeannine Vromant, from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, died in 2008 at the age of 86 and, having no family and having never married, decided to give
    pleasure to strangers who had helped her."

    (connexionfrance.com)
  • German motorway strewn with notes
    "A man in Germany discovered the dangers of driving an open-top car when an envelope containing 23,000 euros (£20,600) blew off the back seat.
    The notes rained down on the fast-moving motorway traffic behind him."
    (BBC)

 

 

 

 

 

  • Muhammad Yunus - "Banker of the poor"
    - Nobel Peace Prize 2006

    (Wikipedia)

 

  • What is a dollar worth? - Limited to years from 1913 to 2005
    Example : "What would an item or service purchased in 19?? be worth in 2005 dollars?..."
    (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

 

  • Daily life in the UK (ukstudentlife.com) :
    Accommodation - Entertainment
    - Money - Post - Shopping - Telephone - Computer - Sport

 

 

Conversation questions :

 

  • How Much Is It?: 3 Activities plus Vocabulary Support for Shopping. (bogglesworld.com)
    "This unit contains an information gap, a walk-and-talk, and a role-play, as well as numerous vocabulary worksheets."

 

Listening :

  • Haggling
    "If you argue with someone in a shop or market over the price of something, we call this haggling.
    Although it isn't the custom in the UK to haggle every time we shop, it is something we do for very cheap things... or very expensive things.
    Don't forget to practise what you've learned with the listening activity..."

    (BBC)

 

  • Everyday English in Conversation - Listening
    Eating / Emotions / Fashion / Friendship / Health / Housing / Life / Memory / Money /
    Romance / Shopping / Time / Traveling / Vacation / Weather / Work
    (Focus English)

  • Technotown Restaurant - with AUDIO
    Reconnaissance des chiffres
    (e-learningforkids.org)

 

  • Money - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son (languageguide.org)

 

  • Money (learnenglish.de)
    Useful Vocabulary with the pronunciation - Build Up - Dialogue - Games and Tests

 

  • BUSINESS WORDS - "Vous allez pouvoir écouter et écrire 175 mots liés à l'anglais de la vente et du commerce."
    (Yvan Baptiste)
  • Shopping and Money (with exercises) - (esl-lab)
    - Numbers 1 (E)
    - Numbers 2 (E)
    - Prices (E)
    - Shopping for the Day (E)
    - Telephone Recording (E)
    - Rental Shop (E)
    - Radio Commercial (M)
    - A Great Car Deal (M)
    - Christmas is Coming! (M)
    - Street Market (D)
    - Rental Shop (D)
    - Money Matters (D)
    - Store Returns (M)
    - Internet Access (D)

 

Role play :

  • The root of all evil - Pre-intermediate (insideout.net)
    Type of activity: Short play.
    Aims: To practise pronunciation, especially stress and intonation. To reinforce going to and the use of the present continuous for the future.
    Task: To read and rehearse the play in small groups. To perform the play in groups of four to the other students.
    - with
    Teacher's Notes

 

INTERACTIVE exercises :

 

 

  • Money - interactive quiz (BBC)


    to put money in the kitty

 

 

  • Money vocabulary - "Match the definitions with the words." - (Ghislaine Wulles)
  • FINANCIAL VOCABULARY QUIZ - (english-language.webpark.pl)
    "Match the correct response to the question or statement." - interactive (english-language.webpark.pl)

 

  • Banking and Business Abbreviations - (about.com)
    "Use the following drop-down list to test your knowledge or access meanings of common banking and business abbreviations."

 

  • Money (learnenglish.de)
    Useful Vocabulary - Build Up - Dialogue - Games and Tests
  • Money Flashcards - "four levels of difficulty and five currencies :
    American dollar, Canadian dollar, Mexican peso, English pound and Australian dollar." (aplusmath.com)
  • Only politicians are portrayed on American dollar bills.
    Match the men to the denominations
    . (Ac. Caen)
  • Money - (British Council) - Lien modifié

 

  • Change Maker - (funbrain.com)
    "Figure out how many of each bill or coin that you expect to get back when you pay for something."

 

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

  • Santa's Shopping List
    "Here is a list of toys on Santa’s shopping list. 
    Santa has £250 to spend between two children, one boy and one girl who are both 2 years old..."

    TOPIC/THEME / Christmas Activities
    (Primary Resources)

 

  • Maths in English
    Pour leur séjour en Angleterre en 2006, une collègue de Maths avait élaboré cette fiche avec ses élèves.
    Activités envoyées par Marina Bureaud (Ac. Poitiers)

 

  • Counting Money - "How much is the money worth?" (makeworksheets.com)
  • Label the money terms,
    including bill, coin, money, wallet, change purse, credit card, checkbook, and check.
    (enchantedlearning.com)

 

  • US Coins - "Label the US coins and what they are worth." (enchantedlearning.com)

 



Lesson plans :

  • CONSUMER SOCIETY :

    • Consumer society.
      "The consumer society is a human society strongly influenced by consumerism.
      The term describes a critical view of over-consumption and excessive production of short-lived or disposable items.

      "Have a look at the articles, poem, story, cartoon, games, trivia and links."

      (British Council)

    • Consumer society - a lesson plan
      - with a guide for teachers
      "The aim of this lesson is to give students practice in reading for information and argument in an article about consumer society and give them an opportunity to discuss their opinions about the topic."
      (BBC)





  • Kids and Cash - a lesson plan
    (school.discoveryeducation.com) OBJECTIVE :
    Students will understand the following:
    1. A bank pays interest to people who put money in it.
    2. A bank charges interest to people who borrow money from it.
    3. A bank charges higher interest to borrowers than it pays to savers.


  • Financial Crisis Glossary - a lesson plan
    Background and Vocabulary
    (PBS)

    Objective :
    "To help students understand the current U.S. and global economic crisis."
  • Unit 10: Import/Export Trade : Text / Dialog / Exercises (lapasserelle.com)
    "Cliquez sur les expressions soulignées pour lire les explications s'y rapportant et les entendre."

 

  • Phrasals4Fun. - Unit Two: Money
    "In each unit you can learn 6 common phrasal verbs on different topics.
    Each unit has three different sections: Listening , Vocabulary and Reading

    (British Council)

  • Gambling. = "the act of betting money, for example in a game or on a horse race...
    Take a look at the articles, poem, word game, cartoon, poll, trivia and links."

    (British Council)

 

  • Money
    "In the United Kingdom we use pounds (£) and pence to buy things....
    With these activities you can practise pounds and pence, practise words for money, or try a quiz.
    There is a great song for your little brother or sister , and Spycat returns in a story about a bank robbery."

    (British Council)

  • If I were a rich man vs. rich girl - a lesson plan - LIEN MODIFIE
    Travail sur deux videos (niveau A2 / B1) avec worksheets à télécharger en pdf
    (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

  • British Royal Finances Online (breakingnewsenglish.com)
    - a lesson "a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."

    The minted Royals (BBC)
    "Debate over the civil list is often anything but civil. Already wealthy by anyone's standards, the Royals still controversially receive a sizeable chunk of public money."





  • Bank services (esl-lab.com)
    Vocabulary | Practice | Follow-Up
  • LOTS OF MONEY & THINGS - STUDENT WORKSHEET (english-4u.com) SITE PAYANT
    Lesson based on : Song by Shania Twain  Ka-Ching - with
    ANSWERS
    Language function: expressing annoyance
    Grammar focus: hear, see, make ... + bare infinitive
    Vocabulary area: consumerism, money, shopping, sounds things make.

 

Webquests :

 

 

 

INTERACTIVE games :

  • Finance and Banks - Interactive crossword (BBC) - Lien modifié

  • Money Central Station - (moneyfactory)
    Games
    to teach kids ages 5-13 about money and counterfeiting.


 

  • The Coin Machine Game (Primary Resources)
    "Interactive game to discover the different British coins and add them up to match the required number."
    Jeu recommandé par Christine Reymond (Infonews)

 

  • Money (learnenglish.de)
    Useful Vocabulary - Build Up - Dialogue - Games and Tests

  • Change Maker - 4 levels (funbrain.com)
    "Figure out how many of each bill or coin that you expect to get back when you pay for something.
    For example, if something costs $3.75 and you pay with a five dollar bill, you would expect back one quarter and one dollar bill."

 

Poems :

 

 

Stories :

  • When I say I'm broke, I'm broke! - A joke about a vacuum cleaner salesman and a lady. - Lien modifié
    (poemzone.com)
    Suggestion : Ne pas donner la fin. La faire deviner.

    - with the VIDEO (YouTube)

 

  • Termites feast on trader's money
    "A trader in the Indian state of Bihar has lost his life savings after termites infesting his bank's safe deposit boxes ate them up."
    (BBC)

 

 

Cartoons :

   

 

Great news!
(pauljorion.com)

 

 

Bailout
(blackcommentator.com)


 

 

Black market
(cartoonstock.com)

 

Christmas shopping
(cagle.com)


The kidney shape was a cool idea.
(poolkitdirect.com)

 

 

Money, I'm home!
(bp1.blogger.com)

 


Garage or Garbage ?

(cartoonstock.com)


 

Some world currencies
(slate.com)

 

Gas-prices
(etheridge.ca)


No money
(nevtron.si)



Money :
a cartoon
(erp.oissel.onac.org)


 


Men at work!
(cartoonstock.com)

 

 

I wish for... - a cartoon

 




Songs :

  • The Fear - sung by Lily Allen
    "I want to be rich and I want lots of money...
    And I am a weapon of massive consumption
    And it's not my fault it's how I'm programmed to function...
    I'm being taken over by the fear"

    (songlyrics.com)
    + the VIDEO (YouTube)

  • If I were a rich man vs. rich girl - a lesson plan - LIEN MODIFIE
    Travail sur deux videos (niveau A2 / B1) avec 3 fiches élèves à télécharger en pdf
    (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

 

  • If I Were A Rich Man sung by Topol :
    "If I were a wealthy man.
    I wouldn't have to work hard...
    I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen...
    I'd fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese..."

    (leoslyrics.com)
    - the VIDEO with subtitles (YouTube)

 

  • Mountains O'things sung by Tracy Chapman
    (sing365.com)
    "I'll be working for somebody else
    Until I'm in my grave
    I'll be dreaming of a live of ease ...
    Everyone will look at me with envy and with greed
    I'll revel in their attention..."

    - the VIDEO (YouTube)

 

 

  • Boys And Girls by Good Charlotte :
    "Educated, with money
    He's well dressed, not funny...
    Girls don't like boys girls like cars and money"

  • Fancy Passes by The Supremes :
    "Money isn't everything
    As anyone who's rich
    It can buy pain and misery
    Or grief "
  • For A Few Dollars More by Smokie
    "The more she takes the harder they fall."
    "So she'll cry just a little for a few dollars more.
    She'll lie just a little like she's done it before.
    She'll take it, she'll fake it for a few dollars more..."
  • Frankenstein - Sick on the Bus :
    "Vodka pills and powder all money down the drain, I could have been somebody"
    (to throw money down the drain)
  • Here Comes The Rain by A1 :
    "Nothing ventured, nothing gained
    There's no healing
    Without some kind of pain"
  • I Need Some Money by John Lee Hooker
    "Money don't get ever'thing it's true
    But what it don't buy, daddy, I can't use
    I need money, I need money..."
    (lyrics007.com)
  • If I Had A Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies
    "If I had a 1,000,000 (If I had a 1,000,000)
    I'd buy you furniture for your house ( maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman)
    If I had a 1,000,000 (If I had a 1,000,000)
    I'd but you a K-car ( a nice reliant automobile)
    If I had a 1,000,000, I'd buy you love"
    (lyrics007.com)

    - the VIDEO (YouTube)

 

  • Ka-Ching by Shania Twain :
    "We've created us a credit card mess
    We spend the money that we don't possess...
    You'll live like a king
    With lots of money and things
    When you're broke go and get a loan
    Take out another mortgage on your home..."
  • KA-CHING - sung by Shania Twain
    A lesson plan
    (frat.st.paul)

 

  • Lonely Nights by Bryan Adams : Lien modifié
    "You know beggars can't be choosers"
    (lyrics007.com)
  • Lonesome Loser by Little River Band :
    "Have you heard about the lonesome loser
    Beaten by the queen of hearts every time
    Have you heard about the lonesome loser
    He's a loser, but he still keeps on tryin'...
    Don't you want to be somebody"
    Listen to it! (You Tube)
  • LOTS OF MONEY & THINGS - STUDENT WORKSHEET (english-4u.com) SITE PAYANT
    Lesson based on : Song by Shania Twain  Ka-Ching - with
    ANSWERS
    Language function: expressing annoyance
    Grammar focus: hear, see, make ... + bare infinitive
    Vocabulary area: consumerism, money, shopping, sounds things make.
  • Love Is Love by All Saints :
    "Love is love you can't buy love, is a gift not an obligation"
  • Love Of The Common People by Paul Young : Lien modifié
    "Living on free food tickets,
    water in the milk
    from a hole in the roof
    where the rain came through..."
    (lyricsdownload.com)
  • Mean Streak by Deep Purple :
    "She drives me crazy gets inside my brain
    She spend my money down a drain"
    (to throw money down the drain)
  • Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin - activities to print - You can listen to the song (english4all.pro.br)
    "Oh Lord, won t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?"
  • Money by Pink Floyd :
    "Money, so they say
    Is the root of all evil today."

  • Money - Cabaret Soundtrack :
    "Money makes the world go around...
    A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound...
    Is all that makes the world go around,
    That clinking clanking sound
    Can make the world go 'round."
  • MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING by Cindy Lauper
    "We swore each other everlasting love
    She said well yeah I know but when
    We did - there was one thing we weren't
    Really thinking of and that's money"
    (lyricsdomain.com)
  • Money for Nothing by Dire Straits :
    "Money for nothin' and your chicks for free"


  • Money Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd :
    "He's at a place where money doesn't grow on trees"
  • Money, Money by Liza Minnelli :
    "Money makes the world go around
    It makes the world go 'round.
    A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound...
    Is all that makes the world go around
    That clinking, clanking sound...
    Can make the world go 'round"
  • Money (That's What I Want) by The Beatles
    "Your lovin' gives me a thrill
    But your lovin' don't pay my bills
    Now give me money (that's what I want)"
    (sing365.com)
  • 'Not for sale' by Steven Seagal (lyrics on the CD : Songs from the Crystal Cave)
  • One Man's Pleasure by Molly Hatchet :
    "One man's loss is another man's gain.
    One man's pleasure is another man's pain."
  • Pawn Shop Blues by Re. Norman Jackson and the Pawn Shop - KARAOKE
    (elllo.org)
  • Rich Girl by Gwen Stefani
    "If I was a Rich Girl
    See, I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl
    No man could test me, impress me, my cash flow would never ever end
    Cause I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl"

 

  • Violent & Funky by Infectious Grooves :
    "A penny saved is a penny earned, but a stolen case of beers gets you a hell of a lot drunker
    Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and boring"
    (Proverb : 'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise')

 

Idioms and Proverbs :

  • MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL :

    • Money is the root of all evil.
      It "is a common figure of speech signifying something that causes serious problems and people would be better off without."
      (Wikipedia)

    • Money by Pink Floyd :
      "Money, so they say
      Is the root of all evil today."

  • Money doesn't grow on trees (bogard.isu.ru)

 

 

  • Money Idioms - "Choose the idiom and click on it to go directly to the explanation and example." (learn4good.com)
  • Frankenstein - Sick on the Bus :
    "Vodka pills and powder all money down the drain, I could have been somebody"
    (to throw money down the drain)
  • Mean Streak by Deep Purple :
    "She drives me crazy gets inside my brain
    She spend my money down a drain"
    (to throw money down the drain)
  • Lonely Nights by Bryan Adams : Lien modifié
    "You know beggars can't be choosers"
    (lyrics007.com)


    Click on the picture.

 

  • Violent & Funky by Infectious Grooves :
    "A penny saved is a penny earned, but a stolen case of beers gets you a hell of a lot drunker
    Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and boring"
    (Proverb : 'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise')


  • Money Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd :
    "He's at a place where money doesn't grow on trees"


  • Fancy Passes by The Supremes :
    "Money isn't everything
    As anyone who's rich
    It can buy pain and misery
    Or grief "



 

  • Here Comes The Rain by A1 :
    "Nothing ventured, nothing gained
    There's no healing
    Without some kind of pain"
  • One Man's Pleasure by Molly Hatchet :
    "One man's loss is another man's gain.
    One man's pleasure is another man's pain."
  • Time is money.

 

  • Love Is Love by All Saints :
    "Love is love you can't buy love, is a gift not an obligation"

 

Superstitions :

  • Common superstitions (csicop.org) :
    • At the end of a rainbow is a pot of gold
    • To find a penny heads up, brings good luck
    • To give someone a purse or wallet without money in it will bring that person bad luck
    • An itchy palm means money will come your way

     

Animations / Videos :