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5/3/2019 0 Comments

March Week Two

This week we talked money!  Savings, salaries, expenses, utilities.  We used an interactive to talk out some of the most common expenses we have and where our money goes.

Listening:
Learners can try one of several activities from Randall's Listening Lab:Spending Money (easy), A Student Credit Card (medium), or ABCs of Money Matters (difficult).

For original version, try any of the Ideas about Money from TED or try an episode from the podcast Planet Money.

Reading:
Learners can try a reading comprehension text about teenagers in the UK and how they manage their money from British Council or from Breaking News English: Money and Happiness

For original version try some of the recommended articles from Longform, asuch as "Until I Was 44, I Never Even Had a Savings Account" by Anthony Bourdain or Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble from the New Yorker.
 
Writing:
This week try responding to one or two of the following prompts about money:
1. Describe your relationship with money in five words or less.
2. What was your money story growing up?
3. What does it mean to you to have “not enough” money?
4. What does it mean to you to have “too much” money?
5. What, to you, is the purpose of money?
6. How do you feel about money today?
7. How would you like to feel about money?
8. What is your biggest fear in relation to money?
9. How does money bring you joy?
10. When have you felt at your richest?
11. What is the largest sum of money you’ve ever received?
12. What, in your opinion, is a “good” amount of money to earn?
13. What is the most money you’ve ever spent on something?
14. Imagine you inherited $5000 from a distant relative with the condition you had to spend it on something other than yourself. What would you do with the money?
15. What would you do if you ran out of money tomorrow?
16. What is the best or most helpful piece of advice you’ve heard about money?
17. What is the worst or least helpful piece of advice?
18. How do you talk about money with friends and family? (Do you?)
19. What would you like your financial life to look like in 10 years’ time?
20. What is one thing you could do today to improve your financial life?

Best,
Kelly
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