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UNIT 5 Money
Lesson 5.1 Going cashless

VIDEO A 5.1.1 Match 1–5 with a–e to make expressions from the video. Then watch
the video again to check your answers.
1 a common a corner
2 small b times
3 street c business
4 everyday d sight
5 difficult e item

B Complete the sentences with the expressions in Exercise A.

1 In India, a(n) usually takes credit cards.
2 A(n) such as bread or soap is not usually expensive.
3 People enjoying street food is in my city.
4 In , people don’t have a lot of extra money.
5 In this part of town, there are food sellers on every .

Vocabulary C Match the definitions (1–10) with the phrases in the box.

cash crunch cash dispenser cash flow cash in hand cash on delivery
cash register pay cash petty cash short of cash withdraw

1 a small amount of money that is kept in an office for making small payments
2 the movement of money that is paid into a business as income and then spent on wages,
materials, etc.
3 a machine that allows you to get money with a special plastic card
4 a machine that is used in shops to store money and record the amount of money received
from each sale
5 when someone is paid in notes and coins so there is no written record of the payment

6 a situation when there is not enough cash in a country – bank machines may not have
any money, and people who receive their pay in cash may not be paid
7 to not have enough money, or to not have paper money or coins
8 to take money out of a business or bank account
9 to use notes or coins to buy something
10 a payment system when a customer pays the person who brings the goods to them

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UNIT 5 Money
Lesson 5.2 Consumer spending

Listening A 5.01 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

borrowing hundreds imports savers thousands

1 If you take your lunch to work, you’ll save a year.

2 You will save – and become healthier – if you cycle to work instead of driving.
3 If interest rates increase, will go down.
4 If banks raise the interest rate on savings, will earn more.
5 Electronics here will be more expensive if China’s currency becomes stronger.

Grammar B Combine the conditions and results to make first conditional sentences.

Condition Result
1 you save money this year be able to go on a nice holiday
2 he pays off his credit card bill next month not have any more debt
3 she buys a new house have more debt
4 I get a pay rise at work buy a new car
5 I don’t prepare for the interview not get the job
6 interest rates go up next month savers earn more money

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UNIT 5 Money
Lesson 5.3 Communication skills: Negotiating team roles

Functional A Work in pairs. Make a list of different sentences using two or more of the words
language and phrases. You can use the puzzle pieces more than once. The team with the
longest list of correct sentences is the winner!

about everyone?
are don’t
happy to could mind

give
you? If/if
you I’d like
giving How
feel would

Is that
Perhaps
you
It’s/it’s OK with
fine by me

you you like

could the that? I was
presentation thinking
(?)

B Work as a class. Your teacher will read out some of the possible sentences to you.
Follow their instructions for deciding if the sentence is making a suggestion,
checking agreement, or both.

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UNIT 5 Money
Lesson 5.4 Business skills: Presenting facts and figures

Functional A Put the presentation extracts in the correct order. The first and last extracts are
language in the right place. Number the other extracts 2–9. Use the three-step procedure
for presenting figures to help you.

STEP 1: WHAT? STEP 2: SO WHAT? STEP 3: NOW WHAT?

What information Why is this information What are we going to do
do we have? important and what does it with this information?
mean for our business?

1 a OK, let’s move on to our survey of employers’ opinions of the different generations
in the workplace. Have a
b thing is that Generation X scored so low on technology skills; only about one in five
employers mentioned this as one of their strengths. The key
c results of our survey of 1,200 employers representing all age groups. As you can
d context, those figures are more than twice as high as for any other generation – either
older or younger! And to give you an
e takeaway here is that, although they have weak technology skills, the generation born
between the mid-1960s and the late 1970s seem to be the most successful in business.
So, in
f see, seven out of every ten employers thought their Generation X employees were
the best workers. And nearly six out of ten said they made the most money for the
company. To put that in
g summary, if we want to improve performance in the workplace, perhaps it isn’t
technology skills we need to develop, but people skills, where Generation X-ers score
much higher than anyone else. And in
h idea of just how significant these figures are, they were the highest in the whole survey!
But perhaps the most surprising
i look at this chart, which shows some of the
10 j terms of learning and development, this clearly means that we need to be looking
at a lot more than just IT.

B Work in groups of four. Each person should use one of the data cards (1–4) below.
Read out the numbers on your card. The person with the approximate number
should cross it out and read out the next number.
Speaker 1: Almost 100%
Speaker 4: 99%
Speaker 1: Correct
Speaker 4: Roughly a half
Speaker 3: Around 6 out of 10 ...

Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4

1 Almost 100% 1 59% 1 0.48 1 99%
2 25.4% 2 Just over a quarter 2 Around 6 out 10 2 Roughly a half
3 Just over a third 3 0.97% 3 11% 3 34.1%
4 67% 4 more than 1 in 10 4 About two-thirds 4 Under 1%
5 Just under 5% 5 75.2% 5 39% 5 4.8%
6 100%! 6 Just under 2 out of every 5 6 Ten out of ten 6 Approximately three-quarters

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UNIT 5 Money
Lesson 5.5 Writing: Letter about a price increase

Functional A Choose the correct option in italics.

language

TEAK SUPPLIES, 45 UTHI ROAD, BANGKOK, THAILAND

Mr H. Makin
Makin Furniture
5230 Main Street
Houston
Texas
USA

4th June 2019

1
Dear / Hello Mr Makin,

As you know, we have not raised our 2prices / price list for several years.
Unfortunately, because of rising costs, we now need to 3rise / increase
our prices by 5 percent from 1st January.

If we do not do this, the quality of our products will suffer. We are

4
keeping / staying the rise small so that our prices 5remain / continue
competitive.

6
Enclose / Enclosed with this letter is the new price list. If you have any
questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We 7like / appreciate your business and hope that you will understand
our situation. We look forward to 8supply / supplying you 9in / at
the future.

Yours 10faithfully / sincerely,

Joshua Wood
Sales Director

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