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AUSTRALIA :
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- USA :
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bank - vocabulary (waze.net)
Vocabulary :
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penniless (thesaurus.reference.com)
Synonyms:
bankrupt, broke, clean, cleaned out, dead broke, destitute, dirt poor, down to last penny, flat broke, flat, impecunious, impoverished,
in the gutter, indigent, lacking, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on last leg, over a barrel, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, ruined,
strapped, tapped out, without a dime
Antonyms :
affluent, rich, wealthy
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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)
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NEWSHOUR EXTRA FINANCIAL CRISIS GLOSSARY (PBS)
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L'anglais des affaires : Business English Glossary (e-anglais.com)
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Financial Glossary  (CNN)
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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)
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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)
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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)
- BUSINESS
WORDS - "Vous allez pouvoir écouter et écrire
175 mots liés à l'anglais de la vente et du commerce."
(Yvan Baptiste)
Facts : 
- Frano Selak: 'world's luckiest man' gives away his lottery fortune
"A music teacher, Frano Selak, who was dubbed the world's luckiest man after cheating death seven times before winning the lottery has now decided to give away his fortune.
The 81 year-old won £600,000 five years ago in the lottery in Croatia, to celebrate his fifth marriage, after earlier surviving plane and train crashes.
He also survived other disasters...
Now the pensioner has decided that "money cannot buy happiness" and has decided to live a frugal life."
(telegraph.co.uk)
- 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)
- What
is a dollar worth? - LIEN MODIFIE
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)
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Everyday
English in Conversation - Listening
Eating / Emotions / Fashion / Friendship / Health / Housing
/ Life / Memory / Money /
Romance / Shopping / Time / Traveling / Vacation / Weather / Work
(Focus English)
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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 :
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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 : 
- 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)
- Money - (British Council) - Lien modifié
Exercises TO PRINT :
- 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 : 
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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:
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A bank pays interest to people who put money in it. |
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A bank charges interest to people who borrow money from it. |
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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."
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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)
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If
I were a rich man vs. rich girl - a lesson plan 
Travail sur deux videos (niveau A2 / B1) 
avec worksheets à télécharger en pdf
(Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)
- 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 :
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Money
(learnenglish.de)
Useful Vocabulary - Build Up - Dialogue - Games and Tests
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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 :
Cartoons :
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Songs :
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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)
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If
I were a rich man vs. rich girl - a lesson plan
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..."
- Lonely
Nights by Bryan Adams :
"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 :
"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
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 :
"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 "
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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 :
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