IKermenka_money

Money - money -money!

Vocabulary

1) Problems with money: [|Broke] - to no longer have any money and be unable to pay what you owe. Go bankrupt is a less informal expression [|Bust] - or bust up to stop an activity or organization from continuing to happen or exist [|Be in the red]- with more money being spent than there is available [|Go bankrupt -] have no money and cannot pay what they owe 2) people’s attitude to money: [|Stingy] - unwilling to spend, give, or use a lot of money [|Miserly] - unwilling to spend any money [|Flashy] - very fashionable or expensive in a way that is deliberately intended to impress people [|Tight-fisted] - not generous with money 3) sums of money you pay/receive in different situations: [|tip]- to give someone a small amount of money in addition to what you owe for a service [|deposit:] -first payment -rent payment -payment into bank account -election payment -layer of something [|bribe] - to give money or presents to someone so that they will help you by doing something dishonest or illegal [|ransom] - the amount of money that someone wants to be paid before they will let a person who they are keeping prisoner go free [|fee]- money that you pay to a professional person or institution for their work; an amount of money that you pay to be allowed to do something such as join an organization [|pocket money] - money that parents regularly give to their children [|pension] - money that someone regularly receives after they have stopped working because of their age, paid either by their company or by the government [|subsidy] - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service 4) illegal activities with money: bribe 5) words to describe value: [|Worthless] - not having any value, or not useful [|Pricey] - expensive [|Priceless] - very valuable and impossible to replace 6) profit and loss in business: [|Be in the black]- with money in your bank account, or with more money than you owe [|Be in the red]- with more money being spent than there is available [|Break even] - if a person or business breaks even, they neither make a profit nor lose money [|Go bankrupt] - officially admitted that they have no money and cannot pay what they owe 7) other: [|ATM] - automated teller machine: a machine outside a bank or in a public place that you use to take money out of your bank account [|One-armed bandits] - a slot machine [|Coins] [|Credit cards]

If you are working at the service area you might expect a tip from customers. For example: a waiter, a cashier, a plumber etc. We can be charged a fee at ATM. We can pay tuition fee or registration fee. Once I paid a deposit when rented an apartment. When I was opening my account at a bank, I deposited money in this bank. I don’t know anyone personally who is really stingy, but in my opinion the most colourful image of that word is represented in our classic literature -“Myortvyje dushi”, a poem by N. Gogol. There is a character, who is really stingy, miserly and tight-fisted. It is Plushkin.

“Neither a borrower not a lender be”

That’s a very good piece of advice! It could be even a motto of a good friendship and relationship. Let’s see + and - : 2) If you don’t lend anyone then you don’t make people feel uncomfortable, feel dependent on you, to owe you. || 1) It is quite impossible to live on your own, nowadays people always make credits to buy a house, a car… 2) Sometimes our relatives and friends need our help, so we lend; sometimes we need their help, so we borrow. ||
 * For || Against ||
 * 1) if you don’t borrow, you can save your independence

It is a very good expression. It is quite difficult to follow, but we should try, I think.

Who wants to be a millionaire? Sure, everyone does! and the hero of the articles, we’ve read, the broke [|backpacker] – Patrick Spooner - is not an exception. I am not admiring his [|ingenuity], but still he is trying to survive in this world and making use of things which characterize our modern society. I think he is not bad at it. At least, it is more or less honest way to earn money for a “professional backpacker”. It would be quite interesting to know whether he succeed at the American or Irish quiz shows. He must be a very stubborn person.

Vocab:

1) Had so little money – was so broke

2) Make a lot of money – strike it rich

3) Not a complete beginner – was no rookie

4) Appear unexpectedly – pop up

5) Things went badly – went horribly wrong

6) To see if he could succeed – to try his hand

Unsuccessful criminals People who chose another way of getting money. I feel sorry for them. It seems that they used to be good persons, but something pushed them to commit a crime. Lack of money, unemployment, the hopelessness of the situation made them commit such unsuccessful crimes. Poor men. Here is the video about a very polite robber: [|Most Polite Robbery Ever Caught on Security Cam]

Compensation culture

I don’t like this phenomenon – compensation culture, but sometimes it is good. It does good, when there is sense! And what we can see nowadays? We can see how this culture leads us to some ridiculous madness. I heard, that a woman put her cat in a microwave to make it dry or it was a washing machine, and she wanted to wash her pet... anyway, no doubt it died. She sued the microwave (or washing machine) company because it wasn’t written in the manual not to put cats in it. I believe, she won.

People are getting mad about money and ways to get them. So that’s why this culture has contradictory character: we and our interests are protected by law; everyone can blame everything and everybody in order to get compensation! So no one is protected… It is like one of the Dante’s circles.