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B. Complete the table below with the correct information about the
development of money.

Timeline Events
1200 BCE cowrie shells used as money
2000 BCE
6 century BCE
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997–1022 CE
1821 CE
21 century
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C. Answer the following questions.

a. What did people use to make a trade before the invention of
money?
b. How were temples used as banks in the past?
c. What was the benefit of using cowrie shells as money?

d. Describe the coins invented by Turkey.
e. Why did the leaders in international finance introduce the gold
standard in currency?
f. What form of money is being used in the 21 century?
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D. How might people trade in the next 20 years? What form of money
might be used? Talk to your friends.
Listening

A. Answer the following questions.
a. Write any three most memorable things about your early
childhood days.

b. Do you wish you could be a young child again? Why?

B. Listen to the audio and complete the sentences with the correct
words/phrases.

a. The speaker remembers the house where he ………
b. The Sun used to come …………. at the window in the morning.

c. It used to wake neither too ………. nor late.
d. The roses were ……….in colour.
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