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Valuable
values
What are the top three things students from this school spend their money on
2. What else do you think students often spend their money on
books and magazines
school supplies
clothes
books and magazines
school supplies
clothes
What is the purpose of writer in writing the passage
To tell us the value of money
To teach us how to handle money wisely
To warn us the disadvantage of wasting money
To advise parents to let children manage their own money
Read and Answer
What do kids in the news do with their money
2. Why does the author use the example of Khloe Thompson
To introduce how to handle money well
To raise people’s awareness of saving money
To share a touching story
To prove age is no barrier to making good use of money
Read and Answer
In contrast to these big spenders, there are also teens that prove age is no barrier to making good use of money. With the help of her grandmother, eight-year-old Khloe Thompson started making “Kare Bags” for the homeless people in her district, Inside the bags are necessities such as toothpaste, soap and socks, bought first with her pocket money and then through crowd funding. These items helped to make the lives of poor and homeless people a little bit easier. On receiving a Kare Bag, one woman said, “You make me feel like a human being”.
2. Why does the author use the example of Khloe Thompson
To introduce how to handle money well
To raise people’s awareness of saving money
To share a touching story
To prove age is no barrier to making good use of money
Read and Answer
3. How did Khole Thompson make use of her money
She spent the money on after-school activities
She saved all her money for her college
She used the money to create a fund
She bought necessities for homeless people
Read and Answer
In contrast to these big spenders, there are also teens that prove age is no barrier to making good use of money. With the help of her grandmother, eight-year-old Khloe Thompson started making “Kare Bags” for the homeless people in her district, Inside the bags are necessities such as toothpaste, soap and socks, bought first with her pocket money and then through crowd funding. These items helped to make the lives of poor and homeless people a little bit easier. On receiving a Kare Bag, one woman said, “You make me feel like a human being”.
3. How did Khole Thompson make use of her money
She spent the money on after-school activities
She saved all her money for her college
She used the money to create a fund
She bought necessities for homeless people
4. Why do the high school students in America require to take financial courses
Because the parents ask them to do that
Because they want to be the next Bill Gates
Because it’s important for them to know how to manage money
Because they want to own a credit card.
However people intend to use their money, managing it seems to be unprecedentedly important to younger generations. A 2016 study said 17 states of the US require high school students to take courses in personal finances.
5. What does the writer think of Jerry Witkovsky’s method of managing money
Wise and useful B. Meaningless and useless
C. Effective but difficult D. Meaningful but impractical
However people intend to use their money, managing it seems to be unprecedentedly important to younger generations. A 2016 study said 17
states of the US require high school students to take courses in personal finances. For those who have no access to courses, help might be at hand thanks to Jerry Witkovsky and his method of using four jars to teach teenagers how to spend their money wisely
6. Which of the following statements about Jerry’s jars is RIGHT
A. The jars were given on his grandchildren’s 15th birthday
B. The Spending jar was added later
C. His grandchildren learned to manage their money when they received the jar
D. His birthday present was the money in the jars
Be nice to yourself
Give you a vision for future
Give you independence
Buy something you’ve seen in the store
Build for the future
Give to cause you believe in
For your university education
Help friends or animals
Spending
Giving
Investing
Saving
7. Which of the following is not the aims of the jars
To inspire teenagers to evaluate money objectively
B. To make teenagers understand the value of money
C. To help teenagers to choose to use the money wisely
D. To make teenagers save money as much as possible
The aim is to encourage teenagers to think more objectively about money and the things that it can do, so that they grow up understanding , if you like, the value of the valuable. In this way, they will be better equipped in their adult lives to make informed choices about how they use the money they have. Indeed, the small change inside their jars could mean a big change in how they manage their money.
What does the valuable refer to
money
It means the _________ telling us how to manage money are __________
What does valuable mean here
It means the topic of the passage is the _________ ---- _______
values
valuable
valuable
money
Wordplay uses the sounds and meanings of similar words in an amusing or clever way, for example : I was trying to discover how lightning worked, and then it truck me! It can also be used to reinforce the meanings of themes: in the title The Importance Being Earnest, “Earnest” is an adjective as well as a character’s name
Learning to learn
Think and share
If you were given 1,000 yuan, how much money would you put in each jar Give your reasons.
Spending
Giving
Investing
Saving