ESL Unit 7: Money and Finance

Unit 7: A World of Money

• A numismatist is a person who studies and collects coins and banknotes.
• Banknotes, bills, and cash are forms of paper money.
• Pocket money is an allowance given to children.
• Barter is a system of exchanging goods or services without using money.
• Metal coins, cryptocurrency, and electronic/digital money are alternative forms of money.
• Plastic cards, debit cards, and credit cards are forms of payment.
• Savings, expenses, and debts are key financial concepts.
• Gold and paper money are forms of currency.
• Income, cost, and subtract are mathematical operations used in finance.
• Borrow, outgoings, and budget are financial management terms.
• Reward, keeping track, and prioritize are important skills for managing money.
• Break the bank, get a run for your money, foot the bill, and keep the wolf from the door are idiomatic expressions related to money.
• Deposit, loan, and bank are financial institutions and services.

Grammar

• The first conditional is used to talk about future possibilities.
• Prepositional verbs are verbs that combine with a preposition to form a new verb.
• Reflexive pronouns are used to refer back to the subject of a sentence.

Unit 8: Earth's Natural Resources

• Natural resources include animals, forests, wind, sunlight, metals, minerals, rocks, coal, oil, water, and natural gas.
• Renewable resources can be replenished naturally, while non-renewable/un-renewable resources cannot.
• Solar power, hydroelectricity, and wind power are forms of renewable energy.
• Copper, gold, trees, sand, petrol, iron, and diamonds are specific natural resources.
• Turbine and innovation are related to the use of natural resources.
• Population, prohibited, and banned are concepts related to conservation.
• Sources of power are ways of generating energy.

Grammar

• Modal verbs are used to express degrees of possibility and obligation.
• Connectives are used to link words, phrases, or clauses.
• Determiners are used to express the reference of a noun.
• Future tenses are used to talk about future events.

Unit 9: Fun Party Times

• Festivals and celebrations are events that bring people together.
• Acrostic is a type of poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word.
• Noisy, colorful, and band are descriptive words related to festivals.
• Annual and anniversary are types of events.
• Wedding, planning in advance, sharing, and gathering are related to celebrations.
• Concert, party, puppets, and happiness are forms of entertainment.
• Pleasure, brilliance, and culture are values associated with celebrations.
• Energy, pop festival, face masks, and fireworks are aspects of festive events.
• Birthday, lookers-on, and passers-by are related to parties.
• Costumes, themed event, comedy, and comedian are forms of entertainment.
• Tour, flash mob, synaesthesia, homophones, and homographs are specialized terms.
• Genre and fiction are literary concepts.
• Non-fiction is a type of writing that is based on fact.

Grammar

• Review of past, present, and future tenses is a review of verb forms.
• Concrete, abstract, and compound nouns are types of nouns.
• Defining and non-defining relative clauses are used to provide more information about a noun.