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Black Friday :  Todd explains Black Friday and Cyber Monday to Aimee. Living on the cheap:    Dan talks about how he saves a lot of money by living in Southeast Asia. Both with quiz, vocab., and script.

Material Girl lyrics Money collocations KEY: Abusive mortgages in Spain:  The so-called mortgage floor clauses ( "cláusulas suelo" ). Check the news for topic-related vocabulary such as:      unfair mortgage terms     minimum interest rate     abusive practice     lawsuit against minimum payments     fixed minimum rate mortgages     hand back money to clients     a ruling in favour     the clauses were ruled illegal Spanish Banks Surge as Fears Subside OverEU Mortgage Ruling . EU wants banks to refund all money earnedfrom mortgage ‘floor clauses’  ( El País ). Spanishbanks face $4.2 billion hit from European court's loan ruling  ( Reuters ). Spanish consumers win victory over mortgage payments  ( The Guardian ). Spanishbanks lose European case over mortgage floor clauses  ( Financial Times ). Money for nothing...

Listen to the song 'Price Tag' to revise the vocabulary about money. Vocabulary exercise: banking Vocabulary exercise: the world of money and work Lots of different exercises about money and banks Reading: How bartering works

As ABBA said, 'money, money, money, always sunny in a rich man's world'. Why is money so important? Can't we just live with bare necessities? Well, money doesn't buy happiness (but does it help you to be happy?) In this post, you are going to do some revision exercises about cleft sentences ( Exercise 1 , Exercise 2 and Exercise 3 ) and learn more things about Nauru (Nauru's natural phosphate reserves once made millionaires of the entire population. Now they're among the world's poorest countries). Some recommendations about films dealing with this issue will be provided. Nauru: lonely planet Nauru Official Tourism Website Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton . It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Now, when thinking about this...

Although this issue is no funny, the following video really is.

I say, I say, I say, Knock! Knock!Who's there?Robin.Robin who?Robin' you! So hand over your money!. For other Robin Hood jokes, click here (you'll find here most of the jokes used in the Robin Hood Xmas Pantomime we saw last Friday). As ABBA said, 'money, money, money, always sunny in a rich man's world'. Why is money so important? Can't we just live with bare necessities? Well, money doesn't buy happiness (but does it help you to be happy?) In this post, you are going to do some revision exercises about cleft sentences ( Exercise 1 , Exercise 2 and Exercise 3 ) and learn more things about Nauru (Nauru's natural phosphate reserves once made millionaires of the entire population. Now they're among the world's poorest countries). Some recommendations about films dealing with this issue will be provided. Nauru: lonely planet Nauru Official Tourism Website Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John ...