UNIT 8

 UNIT 8.

A-Look at the list of expenses, and the household budget chart. Write the expenses in the correct categories. ¿What are the three biggest categories in your own budget? 

Circle them. 

Expenses

• Student Loans  

• Electricity  

• Clothing 

• Mortgage payment 

• Gasoline  

• Tuition

• Hobbies 

• Bus tickets 

• Rent 

• Groceries

• Movies lunches and work

• Shoes

• Water

• Household 
  

1. Housing 

2. Utilities 

3. Food

4. Apparel

5. Transportation

6. Education 

7. Entertainment

B. English has many informal expressions for attitudes, torbard below the money. Look at these tenus ayd-write each ssary. Which words best describe you? Circle them.

• Miser 

• Tightwad 

• Spendthrift 

• Shopaholic 

• Big spender

• Cheapskate  

• Penny-pincher
  

1. ____________________________    2. ____________________________

C: What do these cost expressions mean? Write I (inexpensive), or E (Expensive) after each word or phrase. 

1. Costly.___

2. A Bargain. ___

3. Reasonable. ___

4. Pricey. ____

5. out of my Price range.___

6. Exorbitant. ____

7. Economical ____

8. A Good value. ___

9. A Rip off (inf) ___

D- Use the word combinations in the box to complete the sentences.

Word combinations with Cost.

• Pay the cost of something) 
• The cost of (doing something) 
• At no extra cost.
• High-cost / low-cost it 
• Rising cost produs. 
• The Cost of living

1. you buy a new computer during our summer sale, we'll also give you a printer  

2. Because I have to work until midnight every night this Week, my boss offered to _____  of my taxi. 

3. The city is going to build an area of______ Housing, to help poor families move out of the slums. 

4. The __________ of oil is making gasoline more expensive every day

5. Tokyo has a very high _______ due to the lack of affordable housing. 

6. Many companies are building factories in other countries because ________ production is lower there. 

In Other Words.

• Money is the general word for what you spend to buy things:

¿Can you lend me some money? 

• Cash means coins and bills (not checks or credit cards): That store only accepts cash.

• Change: Is the money you get back when you pay for something in a store: I gave the clerk $10, and he gave me 80 cents in change. 

• Currency is the money of a particular country: I changed 100,000 yen into British currency at the bank.

• Price is the amount of money charged for something in a store or restaurant. The prices at Gold's Department store are really high. 

• The Cost is the amount of money you pay for an activity: The cost of my vacation was less than $1000. 

• You pay a Fee to enter a place: The entrance fee for the museum is reduced on sundays.

• You pay a Charge for a service, or to use something: there is a $2 charge to send a fax from the hotel. 

• You pay a Fare to travel on a plane / bus / boat, etc: The subway fare in my city went up last month. 

WATCH OUT!  Borrow and Lend

These verbs do not have the same meaning.

When we borrow something, we receive it temporarily. 

When we lend something, we give it temporarily. 

Complete each row in the chart with the appropriate form of the word. 

Then use some of the words to complete the sentences below. 

Verb	Adjective	Adjective	Noun
	adopted	adoptive
Extend			Extensión
	Isolated

1. Al has a large _________ Family. He has about 20 aunts and over 50 cousins. 

2. ________ parents love their children just as much as biological parents do. 

3. I used to live in the country far from the nearest town, but I couldn't stand the _________ I was too lonely.

4. When Maria moved to Rome, she didn't know anyone. She felt very______ until she met some friends at work.

5. I think Billy must be _______ he doesn't look anything like his brothers and sisters.

 

Match The Term. 

1. A family name_____      A. is a group of people who are your close . 

2. A family tree.____          B likes to be at home with his family. 

3. A family doctor. _____   C. who treats patients of all ages.

4. A family man.____         D. Diagram that shows all your Relatives

5. The family circle_____   E. Is a surname. 

6. A family room_____       F. where people watch to and Relax

7- Family Reunion.____     G. A big party with all your relatives

Complete the sentences with a lene from B. 

1. I really enjoyed the family________because I got to see all of my cousins. 

2. Since his son was born  Alex has become a real family._____He never goes out with his friends anymore! 

3. Kim and Park are a very common family in Korea. 

4. My sister did a lot of research and drew our family_____ going back more than 200 years. 

5. you really shouldn't talk about your brother's problems outside of our family. ____

6. I want to buy a new sofa for the family______ because we spend so much time there. 

7. I really prefer to see my family_______ rather than a specialist because she knows all of us and our problems.

TRICKY ENGLISH

Incorrect: I fell in love with my wife the first time I sawed her. 

Correct: I fell in love with my wife the first time I saw her.

D-Review the meaning of these words from Friends : today: New Family" Then use the correct form of the word to complete the sentences.

Mobile (Para 4) Eventually (Para 5) Rush (Para 1) Struggle (Para 6) Pool (Para 7) Network (Para 4) Flat (Para 8) Long-term (Para 8)

1. When we were teenagers, my brother and I ______ our money and bought a very cheap old used car. 

2. I think living with friends is OK when you're young, but it's not a good ______ plan

3. When Kim moved to London, she had a hard time finding a ________ because rents are so high.

4. The teacher gave us only three days to do the project, so We had to really, ______ to finish it in time.

5. Luis is a single father, and he's really ____ to raise two kids while working full-time. 

6. Many students build up a _____ of friends during their university years who will help there later in professional life.

7. In today's business world, companies are more _______ and many are increasingly sending their operations outside their home country.

8. I plan to attend medical School, are more ______ work in a developing country. 

E- A number of everyday terms are different in American English and British English.

Match the equivalent nouns. 

A. Tick         

B. Tap            

C. Petrol   

D. CV 

E. Torch       

F. Chemist's  

G. lift  

I. cinema 

H. Rubbish  

J. City Cat

1. Gasoline ___         

2. Elevator _____ 

3. Garbage ___  

4. Flashlight ___

5. Drugstore ___        

7. Faucet ___    

6. Checkmark_____   

8. Downtown___

9. Resumé _____      

10. Movie theater __

IN OTHER WORDS

• Your Home is the place where you live and feel comfortable. The word has a positive emotional feeling. I was born in Korea, but Los Angeles is my home now. 

• House is a type of building: I live in a small, two-bed-room house

• Residence is a formal or legal term: The goverens residence is a big white mansion.

• A Household is all the people who live together in an house: There are three people in our household: my two roommates and me.

• If two people of groups Clash they fight or onque be- cause of different views or beliefs: The two political parties clashed over how to improve the nation's economy.

• Disagree is a more general term, meaning "have a different idea": I disagree with my boss meeting have a diffe the best place to, the new computer. 

• If people have a difference of opinion, they disagree politely about a subject: My teacher and I have a difference of opinion about homework.

¡Watch out! 

Marry / Get married / be married

*Marry is a transitive verb, so it always takes an object: my sister married a guy frome Colombia. 

*Get married is an intransitive verb with no object referring to an event. They got married in Bogota 

*Be married refers to the state: They've been married for three three years now.