Answer the questions.
How many people were injured in the car crash?
How fast the lorry was going?
How many workers have walked out of the Peugeot factory?
What pay rise do they want?
How many more unemployed is there this year?
How many are there in total?
By how much have house prices increased in the last five years?
How much does a three-bed roomed house cost in south-east England?
Exercise 5. Retell the main idea of the listened text.
Exercise 6. Read the text and translate the 1st paragraph of the text.
Money has no smell
People say that these words belong to Vespasian, an emperor of Rome. Suetonius, a Roman historian, writes that the words were used by Vespasian on the following occasion. Once the emperor’s son Titus reproached his father, that he had introduced a tax on public lavatories. Vespasian told him to smell the money he was holding in his palm and to see if the smell was not foul. Titus said that the smell was not foul. Vespasian remarked that money was in the urine, because it had been just paid as the tax on lavatories.
Currency
The dollar is the basic unit of United States money. It is worth 100 cents. The dollar is also the main currency unit of many countries in the world. The dollar was adopted in the USA in 1792. The first US dollars were issued in silver and gold. After 1934, however, all gold coins were taken out of circulation.
The basic unit of money of the United Kingdom is the pound, also called the pound sterling. Today the pound is equal to 100 pence. The British adopted the decimal system in 1971.
The tenge is the currency of Kazakhstan. It is divided into 100 tiyin. It was introduced on 15th of November 1993 to replace the Soviet ruble at a rate of 1 tenge = 500 rubles. The ISO-4217 code is KZT. The word tenge in the Kazakh and most other Turkic languages means a set of scales. The origin of the word is the Turkic teğ- which means being equal, balance. The name of this currency is thus similar to the lira, pound and peso.
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