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10. Match the slangs about money with their definitions.
1. to pay an arm and a leg
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A. to have no money.
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money to burn
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B. people who are rich have a lot of power and influence.
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to chase paper
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C. to spend money, especially in an obvious and careless way, on things that are not necessary.
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stupid money
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D. very poor
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to rob Peter to pay Paul
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E. to control the spending of a family's or an organization's money
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pay through the nose
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F. very little money
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money talks
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G. wealthy, rich
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to be strapped for cash
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H. to pay too much money
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paper, coin, dough, bread
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I. to seek money
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to have deep pockets
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J. to borrow money from one person to pay back money you borrowed from someone else.
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to bring home the bacon
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K. to have a lot of money to spend on things that are not necessary
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Peanuts
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L. an excessive amount of money. So much as to be ridiculous or stupid
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throw money around
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M. to be short of money
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as poor as church mice
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N. money
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to hold the purse strings
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O. to earn money for a family to live on
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11. Match the coins with their correct names and learn by heart the slang terms of them.
SLANG TERMS
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AMOUNT
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nicker or quid
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£1
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Lady
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£5 (fiver). [cockney* rhyming slang = Lady Godiva]*
cockney = Einwohner des Londoner Bezirks Eastend
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Tenner
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£10 [Also known as a Paul McKenna (famous hypnotist)
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Score
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£20 [cockney rhyming slang = apple core] “Apfelkern”
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Pony
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£25
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half a ton
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£50
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Ton
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£100
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Monkey
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£500
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Grand
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£1000
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folding stuff
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In general, all paper money
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Home assignment:
a) Make up 10 sentences using idioms and slangs about money from exercise 10.
b) Search for more 10 idioms and exercises about money.
LESSON FIVE
NATURAL DISASTERS
Tell each other about three natural disasters that have been occurred recently in your country or abroad (you have watched on TV or have listened by radio).
Match the words with their definitions:
Earthquake a) an extremely large wave caused by movement of the earth under the sea
Flood b) a wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm
Drought c) a large mass of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side
Tornado d) a sudden violent movement of the Earth’s surface
Avalanche e) a large amount of water covering the area that is usually dry
Famine f) a period of below average rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell
Hurricane g) a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel shaped cloud
Tsunami h) a severe shortage of food, resulting in violent hunger and starvation
Each extract is giving information about one natural disaster (given above). Read the texts and try to guess them:
Weird weather facts
In the United States, the west has experienced less rain over the past 50 years, as well as increases in the severity and length of ______________.
The effects of _________________ make it difficult to support food crops. In the Horn of Africa, the 1984-1985 ________________ led to a famine, which killed 750,000 people. In the United States, ____________________ are most likely to occur in the Midwest and the South.
The USA averages around 1200 ___________________ every year, more than in any other country. In 1989 the deadliest ________________ ever recorded in the world killed around 1300 people in Bangladesh. Most __________________ have wind speeds less than 100 miles per hour (161 kilometers per hour). Extreme _________________ can reach wind speeds of over 300miles per hour (483 kilometers per hour).
_____________________ can damage bridges, roads and other transport links. River __________________ is the most common type of ________________ event. If the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, then __________________ of the surrounding area can occur. The Yellow River (Huang He) in China has had the four deadliest ______________________ events in world history. The ____________________ of 1931 resulted in 1 to 4 million people being killed.
In January of 1954, Blons, Austria saw one of its worst ___________________ to date. 118 people were buried. While rescue workers were trying to get them out, another unexpected __________________ came and wiped them out.
In the World War II, the Italian and Austrian military had bases in the Alps. On what is now known as “White Friday”, the Alps witnessed a series of ____________________ claiming the lives of 10,000 soldiers, none of which guessed that enemy fire or bombs would be the least of their worries.
_____________________ are the only weather disasters that have been given their own names. The first time anyone flew into a ___________________ happened in 1943 in the middle of World War II.
___________________ Floyd was barely a category I ___________________ , but it still managed to mow down 19 million trees and caused over a billion dollars in damage.
One of the most famous ____________________ in history, the Great ____________________ was caused by a devastating potato disease. In 1853, 1.5 million Irish were dead, and an additional 2 million had emigrated.
In practice, what little seeds that sprouted were severely stunted in growth due to overcrowding. These failed policies, teamed with a flood in 1959 and a drought in 1960, affected the entirety of the Chinese nation. By the time the Great Leap Forward had ended in 1962, 43 million Chinese had died from the __________________.
Without large rice stocks, people were left with no food reserves and the ensuing ___________________ killed 10 million Bengalis in 1943.
There are about 500,000 _______________________ a year around the world, as detected by sensitive instruments.
On March 28, 1964, Prince William Sound, Alaska, experienced a 9.2 magnitude event – one of the biggest ever. The ____________________ killed 125 people and caused $311 million in property damages.
The deadliest ___________________ ever struck January 23, 1556 in Shansi, China. Some 830,000 are estimated to have died.
The largest _______________________ ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 in Chile on May 22, 1960.
Hawaii has a____________________ approximately every year however only one every seven years causes much damage. The largest ______________________ in Hawaii’s recorded history occurred in 1946, which killed 170 people.
The 2011 ______________________ caused by the Tohoku earthquake off the east coast of Japan killed more than 15,000 people. This __________________ also caused a few nuclear accidents.
The __________________ in the Indian Ocean in 2004 killed more than 230,000 people in 14 countries, from Thailand to Africa.
The weather is getting stranger, right? Well, for the most part no, scientists say, but humans often think so when a strange event does occur. So, here’s your chance to prove how much you know about weather oddities:
What do you call a tornado that touches down over water?
Tornado
Waternado
Waterspout
What can cause the sky to seem to rain blood?
Blood from war
Solar storms
Dust or sand in the atmosphere
Where is the driest place on the planet?
Mawsynram in India
Antofagasta in Chile
New Hampshire, USA
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica on the 21 July 1983?
- 89.6 *C
- 98.6*C
- 100* C
What’s the heaviest hailstone on record?
How many metres was the greatest snowfall recorded in Washington State, USA during the winter of 1972?
50 metres
40 metres
30 metres
Which of these phenomena can create lightning?
How many people in the USA are killed by lightning each year, on average?
Where is the least sunny place on earth?
Arizona
North Pole
South Pole
Where on earth the highest temperature + 58*C has recorded?
Bangladesh
Arizona
Al’Aziziyah in Libya
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