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Public domain Think of an answer for these questions: 1) Do you know anyone who doesn't like money? 2) How greedy can you or anyone get? 3) How much money is enough for you to be happy? 4) Do you ever think of those who have very little or nothing? 5) How would you feel if you were young and long-term unemployed? Well, you'll have a chance to talk about these things in class. Vocabulary You are going to revise quite a lot of vocabulary this week: money vocabulary, phrasal verbs and money expressions . Do you know the meaning of the following expressions? If not, click and check.   to be in credit , to be well off , to pay the house off You can download this PDF with money vocabulary exercises . Reading Read this BBC article about young people seeking employment and answer these questions: What is the news? What has the report by the Prince's Trust revealed? What is the government doing about it?  What is a neet ?  What is the equival...

The Moorish Bazaar. Rudolf Ernst. Public domain Today we are going to step back in time and travel through time, to the trade route known as the Silk Route. Do you know anything about it? Vocabulary Task 1. Check the meaning of the following words: barter, bazaar, commodities,  goods, gunpowder, spices Task 2 . Click on this link about spices and make a list of at least five spices. What is the Spanish equivalent for each spice? What is the most expensive spice today? The map of the Silk Route Look at the map in your book on page 66 and compare it to this map. Can you locate the cities in your book in this map? Public domain. Wikimedia Commons Click on the cities along the Silk Route map to learn what life is like today in those places. Video clip on the city of Kashgar Watch this video on the BBC page and answer the following questions: Where is Kashgar? What does the reporter say about its past? Why is this city being transformed? What is it be...