2015-10-14
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I.Vocabulary list:
1. glimpse (glimpse of history) быстрый взгляд (немного об истории)
2. commodity предмет потребления
3. cattle крупный рогатый скот
4. fur мех
5. shell ракушка
6. to underline подчёркивать, выделять
7. fairly довольно
8. durable надёжный, длительного пользования
9. above- mentioned вышеуказанный
10. quality качество, свойство
11. to supersede замещать
12. precious (precious metal) драгоценный (драгоценный металл)
13. to weigh (to weigh out; weight) нагружать (взвешивать;вес)
14. piece (to cut into pieces) кусок (резать на куски)
15. receipt квитанция, расписка
16. goldsmith ювелир
17. existence существование
to come into existence возникнуть, появиться
18. worth цена, стоимость
19. value (face value) стоимость, ценность
20. token (token coin) знак, символ (разменная монета)
21. leather кожа
22. payment оплата, платёж
23. silver серебро
24. gold золото
25. to serve as smth./smb. служить как что-л./кто-л.
26. legal tender законная плата
II. Give the Russian equivalents to the following words and word combinations:
different periods of time, commodity, cattle, leather, tobacco, fairly durable, were superseded by silver, abovementioned, quality, payment, token coins, bronze and copper, came into use, legal tender, small denomination, banknote, face value, were issued, paper money, limited value, cupronickel
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III. Guess the meaning of the following international words:
period, tobacco, expert, portable, effectively, metal, stage, form, receipt, bank, banker, banknote, denomination, bronze.
IV. Match a word from A column with a word from B column to make a word combination.
A B
1 different 1 banknotes
2 paper 2 denomination coins
3 receipts became 3 coins
4 token 4 money
5 bigger 5 commodities
V. Glimpses of History of Money
Read and translate the text
Find the answers in the text:
What commodities served as money in the past?
How did coins come into use?
