The dollar

Money has no smell

Exercise 9 Retell the text.

Exercise 8 Listen again and answer the questions with a number.

How many people were injured in the car crash?

How fast the lorry was going?

How many workers have walked out of the Peugeot factory?

What pay rise do they want?

How many more unemployed is there this year?

How many are there in total?

By how much have house prices increased in the last five years?

How much does a three-bed roomed house cost in south-east England?

Exercise 10. Read the texts.

People say that these words belong to Vespasian, an emperor of Rome. Suetonius, a Roman historian, writes that the words were used by Vespasian on the following occasion. Once the emperor’s son Titus reproached his father that he had introduced a tax on public lavatories. Vespasian told him to smell the money he was holding in his palm and to see if the smell was not foul. Titus said that the smell was not foul. Vespasian remarked that money was in the urine, because it had been just paid as the tax on lavatories.

The dollar is the basic unit of United States money. It is worth 100 cents. The dollar is also the main currency unit of many countries in the world. The dollar was adopted in the USA in 1792. The first US dollars were issued in silver and gold. After 1934, however, all gold coins were taken out of circulation. A silver dollar was issued at various times from 1794 until 1935. The dollar was adopted in Canada in 1878. Australia adopted the dollar in 1966 and New Zealand in 1967.

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