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A short history of money
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Follow the stages of a historical development.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- goods
- Things that are made to be sold.
- coin
- A small round piece of metal used as money.
- exchange
- To give one thing and receive another.
Answer key
- Long before coins, people exchanged goods or kept records of debts.The b in “debts” is silent. The d of “exchanged” runs into “goods”.
- A farmer might trade grain for tools or cloth.The t of “might” is hardly heard before “trade”.
- Metal coins made buying and selling much easier.“Buying” and “selling” are both -ing forms.
- Paper money appeared later, first in China.The stress in “paper” is on “pa”.
- Today, many payments are made electronically, without any cash at all.The stress in “electronically” is on “tron”.