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Module 5 Meimei Lin 5.1 Money and finance 5.2 Discussion options 5.3 The Listening Test: Part Two What is the role of money in your life? How important is money to you? 5.1 Money and finance Vocabulary : Money expressions How do you interpret this quotation? ‘Money often costs too much.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essayist (散文作家) There are two interpretations: It literally says that it’s expensive to borrow money A deeper interpretation is that pursuing only money makes you neglect the more important things in life. Useful expressions: Money isn’t everything. 金钱不是一切。 There are many, many wonderful things in the world that cannot be bought with money. 世界上有许许多多美丽的东西是用钱买不到的。 There are many other things more important than money, such as health, life, happiness, friendship, love and so on. 有许多东西比金钱更重要，比如说健康、生命、快乐、友谊、爱情等等。 A hunger for money pushes us to work harder and longer in an effort to obtain even more money, thus ruining our health. 对金钱的欲望促使我们加班加点更加拼命地工作，从而使我们的健康受到了损害。 Complete the flow charts 1. Expressions collocated with money: earn money / borrow money / lend money / owe money / pay back money / win money / invest money / withdraw money make a profit; do a deal; do business; take out a loan 2. Other words collocated with: earn respect spend time, your holidays (+ doing something) bet bet your life (= to be sure) repay a favour, kindness (‘how can I ever repay you’) take out a subscription (to a mangazine) borrow a pen, someone’s car, etc. withdraw an offer, a product from the shelves be short of resources, time What’s the difference between the following? win money and earn money You earn money from your work; you win money in a game, eg in a lottery (抽彩给奖法); you make money from any kind of business deal or investment. lend and borrow money Lend and borrow are like give and take. spend and waste money Wasting money is spending it in an unprofitable or unnecessary way. costs and is worth ￡300 You can say How much do