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Ex. 3. Give three forms of the following verbs. Find the sentences with these verbs in the text
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Become, begin, buy, find, get, give, grow, keep, let, make, overcome, pay, sell, speak, spend, take, tell, understand, withstand.
Ex. 4. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.
| barter | a | a medium of exchange in which money is a commodity generally accepted because it has value as a good and as money | |
| money | b | anything generally accepted as payment for goods and services as well as for settlement of debts | |
| currency | c | a direct exchange of one commodity for another, without the use of money | |
| commodity money | d | money issued by the government but not backed by any commodity and is absolutely irredeemable | |
| representative money | e | an economic process in which prices increase so that the purchasing power of money falls | |
| fiat money | f | paper money issued by a government or a bank and backed by their promises to redeem it for a given weight of precious metal, specifically gold or silver | |
| inflation | g | money that is used in a particular country |
Ex. 5. Find in the text the words which go in pair with: currency, barter, exchange, money, function, value, duplication. You can add other word collocations. Give examples either from the text or of your own.
Model: currency → national/international, local/foreign, weak/stable/hard currency, the single European currency
e.g. A stable currency means that your savings do not diminish in value. You can always convert euro into your local currency.
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