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Testo
Money
In the past people traded with the applied proceeds swap.
Than people used pieces of metal, next they coined the coin.
In the V century the coin spread through the whole Greece and Roman Empire.
On the coin there was image of emperors, of divinities and of sacred animals. Each town had its own coin.
In the 1700 people started using banknotes, which was lighter and easer to use.
The dollar was born in the 1794 in the U.S.A. when was president George Washington.
In Italy the local currency was the Lira. But today in Europe there is an European currency unit, called EURO (€) . European people started using it from 2002.
But Britain didn’t want to use Euro and continue having its local currency, the Pound.
Nowadays most people think money is the most important thing to be happy, but I don’t think it is true.
All the society move around money and with the money. A person is power if he is too rich. The people richest in the world are the boss of big companies, such as Bill Gates who is the boss of Microsoft.
Money
Vocabulary
Money: noun, the means of paying for sth or buying sth.
Trade: noun, the buying or selling of goods or services between people or countries
verb, to buy or sell goods or services.
Coin: noun, a piece of money made of metal.
verb, to invent a new word or phrase.
Spread: verb, to affect a larger area or a bigger group of people; to make sth do this.
Image: noun, a picture or description that appears in a book, film or painting.
Banknotes: noun, a piece of paper money.
Currency: noun, the system or type of money that a particular country uses.
Boss: noun, a person whose job is to give orders to other at work.
Credit: noun, to add money to a bank account.
Cheque: noun, a piece of paper printed by a bank that you sign and use to pay for things.
Account: noun, the arrangement by which a bank looks after your money for you.
Stock exchange: noun, a place where shares in companies are bought and sold.
Share: noun, one of many equal parts into which accompany is divided, that can be sold to people who want to own part of the company.
