4. Decide whether the following statements about the text you have read are true or false.
The British government encourages young people to get good education and training.
Participation in different youth organizations and groups help young people to learn «life skills».
The work of most youth organizations in Britain is based on the active participation of volunteers.
The influence of the social environment in Britain is negative.
Practically all young people in Britain regularly attend youth clubs and organizations.
British young people usually don't experience lack of pocket money.
It is not difficult for a youth to find a temporary job to earn more pocket money.
Not all young people in Britain take active part in sporting activities.
Young people don't need to pay as much as adults while visiting places of culture and leisure centres.
Speak on the following:
Why do you think the life of young people in Ukraine has become more difficult after the split of the former USSR? Give your reasons.
How do the young people you know spend their free time?
Do many of your friends like to have a temporary job? If yes, why?
How easily can a teenager get a temporary «Sunday job» in our country?
Do you think all families in Ukraine now can afford to send their children to summer camps?
What do young people usually do in the summer?
Do you know about any discounts for young people in our country, Great Britain and the USA? If yes, what are the discounts given for?
Do you, or any friends of yours, belong to some political party, organization or group?
What attracts you, or them, in the activity of those parties or organizations?
Would you like to join any political party, organization, group? Which one?
Have you ever taken part in the activity of the so-called «intellectual games» like «What? Where? When?», «Brain Ring», «Political Debates»? If yes, speak about your experience.
Do you have any interesting youth clubs in your school? If yes, explain what they do.
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5.1 Грошові одиниці
1) Read and translate the text
MONEY
Money is used for buying or selling goods, for measuring value and for storing wealth. Almost every society now has a money economy based on coins and paper bills of one kind or another. However, this has not always been true. In primitive societies a system of barter was used. Barter was a system of direct exchange of goods. Somebody could exchange a sheep, for example, for anything in the marketplace that they considered to be equal value. Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system, because people's precise needs seldom coincided. People needed more practical system of exchange, and various money systems developed based on goods which the members of society recognized as having value. Cattle, grain, teeth, shells, feathers, skulls, salt, elephant tusks, and tobacco have all been used. Precious metals gradually took over because, when made into coins, they were portable, durable, recognizable, and divisible into larger and smaller units of value. A coin is piece of metal, usually disc-shaped, which bears lettering, designs or numbers showing its value. Until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coins were given monetary worth based on face value - the value that governments choose to give them, irrespective of the actual metal content. Most governments now issue paper money in the form of bills, which are really "promises to pay". Paper money is obviously easier to handle and much more convenient in the modem world. Checks and credit cards are being used increasingly, and it is possible to imagine a world where "money" in the form of coins and paper currency will no longer be used.
Coin - монета
Disc-shaped - у формі диска
Amount - сума
Irrespective of - незалежно від
Increasingly - значно частіше
2) Answer the questions
What is money used for?
What system was used in primitive societies?
What is coin?
4.Why is it possible to imagine a world where "money” in the form of coins and paper currency will no longer be used?
Read and retell the text