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      Who you're going to invite                                                    Part II. MONEY THROUGH ECONOMICS
      • Are you going to invite any celebrities or local dignitaries?
      • If yes, who? Why?
                                                                                          MONEY AND ITS QUALITIES∗
      The practicalities                                                        Read the text and complete the tasks.
      • Decide on the date, the time and the venue.
                                                                                            MONEY AND ITS QUALITIES
      2. Prepare to present your ideas to the class.                             Money can be anything that is generally accepted in payment
       a. Nominate a spokesperson.                                        for goods or services. Almost every society now has a money economy
       b. Help the spokesperson to prepare a presentation following the   based on coins and paper notes of one kind or another. However, this
structure given below:                                                    has not always been true. In primitive societies a system of barter was
       1. Explain who you are raising the money for and why you           used. Barter was a system of direct exchange of one good or service
chose this cause.                                                         for another. Somebody could exchange a sheep, for example, for
       2. Explain what kind of event you're going to organise and why     anything in the market-place if they considered to be of equal value.
you chose this kind of event.                                             Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system because people's
       3. Explain the practicalities.                                     precise needs seldom coincided. People needed a more practical
       4. Invite your audience to be generous in their support and        system of exchange, and various money systems developed based on
answer any questions they may have.                                       goods, which the members of a society recognized as having value.
                                                                          Cattle, grain, teeth, shells, feathers, skulls, salt, elephant tusks and
      LANGUAGE TOOLBOX                                                    tobacco have all been used. Precious metals gradually took over
      PRESENTING IDEAS                                                    because, when made into coins, they were portable, durable,
      I'm here to ...                                                     recognizable and divisible into larger and smaller units of value.
      Basically, we believe that...                                              A coin is a piece of metal, usually disc-shaped, which bears
      Our first priority is to ...                                        lettering, designs or numbers showing its value. Until the eighteenth
      The main issue here, I'm sure you'll agree, is ...                  and nineteenth centuries coins were given monetary worth based on
      I'm sure you'll agree that...                                       the exact amount of metal contained in them, but most modern coins
      As you can see, we've given this matter a lot of thought and ...    are based on face value, the value that governments choose to give
      So, to sum up ...                                                   them, irrespective of the actual metal content. Coins have been made
      I'd like to take this opportunity to ...                            of gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), aluminium (Al), nickel (Ni),
                                                                          lead (Pb), plastic, and in China even from pressed tea leaves.
      And to close I'd just like to ask you to ...
                                                                                 Nowadays however valuable metal has generally been replaced
      3. Which group presented
                                                                          by paper notes.
      a) the most original fund-raising idea?                                    The use of paper money in Western civilization began in the
      b) the most practical fund-raising idea?                            Middle Ages. The major forms of money in those days, gold and silver
                                                                          coins, were inconvenient to carry and liable to be stolen.
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                                                                              To get more information on the history of money see SUPPLEMENTARY
                                                                          TASKS: Block 6 (p. 64).

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