Get Rich Quiz

8/9/2019 Get Rich Quiz

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Get rich quick quiz

1 If your bank account is overdrawn, are you:

(a)in the red? (b)in the pink? (c)in the orange?(d)in the black?

2You buy a hairdryer but it doesnt work.You take itback to the shop. Do you ask for:

(a)a receipt? (b)a guarantee? (c)a rebate?(d)a refund?


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3The Japanese yen, the American dollar, theBrazilian real, and the Indian rupeeare all examples of different:

(a)denominations (b)coins(c)currencies (d)exchange rates

4 What is a mortgage?

(a)inherited money or land (b)a loan to buy a

house or flat (c)an initial payment to guaranteea later purchase (d)subsidy to help students payfor tuition


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5Your friend invites you out for a meal and insistson paying. He or she says:

(a)This is my gift. (b)This is my treat.(c)This is my offer. (d)This is my round.

6 When two people, e.g. a husband and wife,

share the same bank account it iscalled:

(a)a sharing account (b)a joint account(c)a deposit account (d)a partnership account


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7In many countries when you are too old to work,the government pays you:

(a)an inheritance (b)an allowance(c)a pension (d)a benefit

8 When someone retires from work after a longperiod of service, they may be given a golden:

(a)goodbye (b)gesture (c)handshake

(d)wave


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9If you receive some money unexpectedly, you

may call it:

(a)a windfall (b)a rainfall (c)a waterfall(d)a snowfall

10 If a rich member of your family dies, it is

possible that you will:

(a)come into some money (b)fall into somemoney (c)move into some money(d)get into some money


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11 If a person spends money carelessly, we saythat they are spending money:

(a)like juice (b)like water(c)like rain (d)like chocolate

12 Your expenses have increased but your salaryhas not. Should you:

(a)tighten your purse (b)tighten your trousers(c)tighten your collar (d)tighten your belt


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13If you have hardly enough money to live on, youare said to be living:

(a)from hand to mouth (b)from moment tomoment (c)from eye to stomach(d)from day to day

14 Another way of saying that a person is very richis to say that they are:

(a)well in (b)

well off(c)

well over (d)

well up


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KEY VOCABULARY

allowance

be in the black

be in the red

benefit

be well off come into money

currency

denomination

exchange rate

golden handshake guarantee

inheritance

joint account

live from hand to mouth

mortgage

pension

rainy day

rebate receipt

round (of drinks)

spend money like water

subsidy

tighten your belt treat

windfall


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TEACHERS NOTES

LEVEL:

UPPER-INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED


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Warm-up

1 Ask students what they would do with a million Euros, or

the equivalent in your currency, if theywon it in a competition.2 Tell students that they are going to have the opportunity towin up to a million Euros by taking partin a quiz, and all the questions are about the language ofmoney.

Mainactivity

1 Divide students into teams of two or three students. Eachteam should choose a name for itself.

Write the names of the teams on the board and draw acolumn under each name.2 Explain that there are 15 multiple-choice questions eachworth a certain amount of money. Foreach correct answer they win money and the amount theycan win gradually increases.


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3Tell students the value of the first question, then read

aloud the question and the four possibleanswers. Give the teams 20 seconds to choose the rightanswer and write it down.

4 Continue in the same way until you have asked all thequestions.

5Ask a representative from each team to come up to theboard with their answers. Then check theanswers with the whole class. The team representatives fillin the columns on the board with the

amounts of money won for each correct answer.

6 The winners are the team with the most money.


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Answers

1a 2d 3c 4b 5b 6b 7c 8c 9a 10a 11b 12d 13a 14b 15a

Follow-up

1 Give each student a copy of the sheet and ask them tocircle the correct answers. Then ask

students to underline any alternative answers which arereal English.

2 As a class, discuss the meanings of these alternativeanswers.

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