東京理科大学 Listening & Speaking 1b: Foreign currencies・外貨

Hello!

How are you? Today we're going to look at foreign currencies (外貨) - money from different countries. What money do you see in the picture above? What country does it come from? 

The money in the picture above is Vietnamese dong. 

Before we begin, here are the board notes for our class from 11/11:

Now let's look at an activity about money in different countries!

Activity
Which countries do these different currencies come from? Write out your ideas in your notebooks.

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Now try these!

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Optional homework 

Let's find out more about money from different countries! On the internet, find one (1) example of money from another country, with 2-3 pictures of the money. Find out how much the money is in yen. Print out the pictures - or save them on your smartphones - and bring them to the next class. 

Discussion circles
Now here are the discussion circles leaders' questions. Please remember that in groups with only three (3) members, that the leader will also be the vocabulary master. 

For the summarizer

Are you ready to summarize the reading/CD talk? (Can you give us your summary of the reading/CD talk?)

For the details master

1. What is one problem with the concept of bartering?

2. Around when did the concept of money first develop?

3. What were the places where money was first used?

4. Give an example of one of the advantages money has over barter.

(Leaders - think of 1-2 more details questions of your own to ask the details master about!)

For the vocabulary master

What is barter?

What is a thumbprint?

What is an advantage?

What does it mean to solve something?

(Leaders [or summarizers and details masters in groups of 3] - think of 1-2 more words of your own to ask the vocabulary master/leader about!)

Have fun!

Images: Top & board notes - personal photographs/1. "Money Pile $100 Dollar Bills"/2. "New Brazilian Currency - Real" (all courtesy of David Castillo Dominici)/3. "100 Euro" (courtesy of Ambro)/4. "Uk Sterling Money Notes And Coins" (courtesy of -Marcus-)/5. "Hundred Thai Baht" (courtesy of foto76)/6. "Australian Cash" (courtesy of zirconicusso)/Images 1-5 from FreeDigitalPhotos.net/All rights reserved on personal photographs.