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6.1 Don’t give up!
Exercise 5b
Audio 6.1
People were surprised to see a bobsleigh team from Jamaica at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Canada. It wasn't very easy for the team to practise in Jamaica before the Olympics because there was no ice and there were no bobsleighs for them to use. They weren't successful in their races, but they were very popular with the people watching because they tried so hard. There was a film telling their story in 1993 called Cool Runnings and it was a huge success, making $150,000,000 around the world.
Exercise 6a
Audio 6.2
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A Was there a bobsleigh team at the Olympics?
B Yes, there was.
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A Was it easy for them to practise?
B No, it wasn’t.
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A Were there bobsleighs for them to use?
B No, there weren’t.
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A Were they popular?
B Yes, they were.
Exercise 6b
Audio 6.3
1 The first football World Cup was in the last century, in 1930.
2 The first Olympic Games were about 2,800 years ago, in 776 BCE.
3 The first dishwasher was in the 19th century.
4 The first Sony Walkman was in 1979.
5 The first talking film was in 1927.
6 The first Oscars ceremony was in 1929.
6.2 Stories
Exercise 2 & 3
Audio 6.4
Welcome to The Money Programme. Today we’re talking about the history of money. These days most people use notes, coins and credit cards to buy things. But people in the past used different ways of paying for things.
The Ancient Egyptians liked wearing their money on their fingers as rings. The rings were made of gold. When they wanted to pay for something they pulled a ring or two off their fingers.
People in ancient Turkey were some of the first to use coins as money in the 7th century BCE. The Romans also used coins but added pictures of their emperors to them in the first century BCE. The Chinese put their coins on a piece of string to make them more valuable.
For hundreds of years, people around the world paid for things with salt. In fact, the word ‘salary’ comes from a Latin word that means ‘money used to buy salt’. This is because the Romans sometimes paid their soldiers with salt.
The Lobi people of Ancient Ghana in Africa lived as farmers. Because they worked in the fields and there were a lot of snakes, they decided to make metal snakes and use them as money. They believed their snake money helped them to stay safe.
Exercise 5a