Деньги крутят всем. Money Keeps the World Spinning

М.Г. Литвинцева
Б.Д. Ходжагельдыев

ДЕНЬГИ КРУТЯТ ВСЕМ

MONEY KEEPS THE WORLD SPINNING

Учебное пособие

Москва
Издательство «ФЛИНТА»
2018

2-е издание, стереотипное

УДК 811.161.1(075.8)
ББК 81.432.1я73
Л64

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Б.Д. Ходжагельдыев. — 2-е изд., стер. — М. : ФЛИНТА, 2018. — 
188 с.: ил.

ISBN 978-5-9765-3566-4

Настоящее пособие в доступной форме знакомит читателя с одной 
из сфер живого английского языка. Его тема — деньги (Money), их 
именование, использование в обычной жизни потребителя (покупки, 
плата и пр.), деньги как заработок и т.д. За пределами авторского внимания — использование денег в сфере профессиональной банковской 
и коммерческой деятельности.
Для студентов и преподавателей, а также всех изучающих английский язык.
УДК 811.161.1(075.8)
ББК 81.432.1я73

ISBN 978-5-9765-3566-4 
© Литвинцева М.Г., Ходжагельдыев Б.Д.,
 
 
2018
© Издательство «ФЛИНТА», 2018

MONEY MONEY MONEY...

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A beautiful friend is better than gold.

Who owns too much remains unhappy.

Money isn’t everything.

ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ

От авторов  ........................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION  ............................................................................................8
Famous humorous quotes about money  ............................................................8
What’s money?  ..................................................................................................9

VOCABULARY  .............................................................................................24
Chapter 1. Money, money  .............................................................................24
Chapter 2. What is the best place to keep money?  ........................................38
Chapter 3. How much money have you got?  ................................................48
Chapter 4. Do you want to make fast money? ...............................................62
Chapter 5. Money doesn’t grow on trees  .......................................................74
Chapter 6. Are you money-wise?  ..................................................................92
Chapter 7. Let’s go on a shopping spree ......................................................101
Chapter 8. IOU (I owe you)  .........................................................................128
 
PRACTICE PART  .........................................................................................134

SUPPLEMENT  .............................................................................................148

ANSWER KEY  .............................................................................................178

BIBLIOGRAPHY  .........................................................................................187

От авторов

Данная работа адресована тем, кто изучает английский язык 
и хочет более детально познакомиться с темой Money.
Структурно она состоит из четырех разделов: Introduction, 
Vocabulary, Practice Part, Supplement.
Introduction знакомит читателя с описанием денег как феномена.
В Vocabulary материал для удобства пользователя разделен на главы с уточняющими разделами внутри них. Словарь в 
основном ограничен сферой быта (названия денег, работа и заработки, покупки, плата и пр.) и не затрагивает сферу деятельности банков и коммерции. В связи с этим большинство слов и 
выражений относятся преимущественно к лексике разговорного 
характера. Каждая глава Vocabulary заканчивается упражнениями, помогающими запомнить предлагаемые слова и выражения. 
В разделе одновременно содержится необходимая связанная с 
темой лингвострановедческая информация.
Practice Part включает систему обобщающих упражнений, 
каждое из которых требует использования материала всего словаря и навыков, полученных в результате выполнения предшествующих заданий.
Supplement демонстрирует разнообразные варианты использования вокабуляра. В него включены говорящие о деньгах идиомы, шутки, забавные рассказы, диалоги, песни и стихи; приведены соответствующие теме английские и русские 
пословицы и поговорки, предложен для решения кроссворд. 
Раздел содержит и материал для более глубокого чтения — отрывки, имеющее отношение к теме Money, из художественных 

произведений современных английских и американских авторов.
Мы надеемся, что предлагаемое пособие привлечет внимание не только школьников и студентов, но также вызовет интерес у широкого круга лиц, изучающих практику живого английского языка.
М.Г. Литвинцева
Б.Д. Ходжагельдыев

INTRODUCTION

Famous humorous quotes about money

People who say money can’t buy you happiness don’t know 
where to go shopping. (Anonymous)

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can certainly rent it for a 
couple of hours. (Anonymous)

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a 
complete use of other fi ve. (W.S. Maugham)

Lack of money is the root of all evil. (Mark Twain)

Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it. (Mark 
Twain)

Life is short so is money. (Bertolt Brecht)

The money is better than poverty only for a fi nancial reason. 
(Woody Allen)

Money can’t buy you friends, but you can get a better class of 
enemy. (Anonymous)

Money is not the most important thing. Love is. I love money. 
(Jackie Mason)

A wise person should have money in their head but not in their 
heart. (Jonathan Swift)

What is Money

What is Money? Is Money the Most Essential Part
of our Life?

Some people think that money is such an emotionally loaded 
topic that few people discuss it directly. Nevertheless, whether 
it’s the start of the day or the end of the day we all talk about 
money because money is very important in our everyday life. In 
fact, it is one of the most popular topics. According to Corpus of 
Contemporary American English (COCA) the word money is among 
the Most frequently used words in English (223rd place in the list of 
most frequent 5000 words) alongside with grammar words such as 
articles, prepositions, pronouns, numerals, etc. Such high frequency 
of the word “money” is conditioned by the importance of the topic 
MONEY itself. Actually, not only we talk about money, but money 
itself also talks. In fact, Money is the top polyglot — it talks all 
languages.

  

A few words about money and how it came
into our life

Money is used for buying and selling goods, for measuring 
value and for storing wealth. Almost every society now has a 
money economy based on coins and paper notes of one kind 
or another. However, this has not always been true. In primitive 

societies a system of barter was used. Barter was a system of 
direct exchange of goods. Somebody could exchange a sheep, for 
example, for anything in the market place that they considered 
to be of equal value. Barter, however was a very unsatisfactory 
(impractical) system because people’s precise needs seldom 
coincided. People needed a more practical system of exchange 
and various money systems developed based on goods, which the 
members of a society recognized as having value. Cattle, grain, 
teeth, shells, feathers, skulls, salt, elephants’ tusks and tobacco 
have all been used. Precious metals gradually took over because, 
when made into coins they were portable, durable, recognizable 
and devisable into larger and smaller units of value.
A coin is a piece of metal, usually disc-shaped, which bears 
lettering, designs or numbers showing its value. Until the 
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries coins were given monetary 
worth based on the exact amount of metal contained in them, 
but most modern coins are based on face value, the value that the 
governments choose to give them, irrespective of the actual metal 
content. Coins have been made of gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper 
(Cu), aluminum (Al), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), plastic 
and in China even from pressed tea leaves. Most governments 
now issue paper money in the form of notes, which are really 
“promises to pay”. Paper money is obviously easier to handle and 
much more convenient in the modern world. Checks, traveler’s 
checks, credit cards, debit cards and other items are being used 
all over the world now and it is possible to imagine a world where 
“money” in the form of coins and paper currency will no longer be 
used.
That’s a short overview of the history of money. Say if you agree 
with the concluding sentence of the text? Can further progress in 
looking for more convenient and proper form of “money” help 
create a new form which would be easier to handle and better 
protected from stealing and being forged? What form could it be, do 
you think?

Major World Currencies

Generic Currency

Country
Adjective
Money
Symbol

Russia
Russian
ruble

USA
American
dollar
$

UK
British
pound
£

France
French
euro
€

Finland
Finish
euro
€

Germany
German
euro
€

Greece
Greek
euro
€

Italy
Italian
euro
€

Spain
Spanish
euro
€

Argentina
Argentinian
peso
$

Australia
Australian
dollar
$

Brazil
Brazilian
real
$

Canada
Canadian
dollar
$

China
Chinese
yuan
¥ (CNY¥)

Denmark
Danish
krone
Kr

Egypt
Egyptian
pound
£

Japan
Japanese
yen 
¥ (JPY¥)

India
Indian
rupee

Mexico
Mexican
peso
$

New Zealand
dollar
$

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian
riyal

Country
Adjective
Money
Symbol

South African 
Republic
South African
ran
R

Switzerland
Swiss
frank

Turkey
Turkish
lira

(The word “currency” according to Merriam Webster’s 
Dictionary comes from Middle English word “curraunt” which 
means “in circulation” which originated from Old French “corant”, 
“currant” meaning “to run” which in its turn goes back to Latin 
“courrere” meaning “to hurry”. There is also another opinion. 
American historian Jordan Maxwell says that the word currency is 
derived from the words “currant” and “sea”, the banks control the 
fl ow of money as the river banks control the fl ow of the river current 
to the sea.)

The Symbols of Major currencies

£ — symbol of pound sterling, UK, since the XVI century.
The symbol is a combination of two elements: a Latin letter 
L (libra = pound) and one or two horizontal bars.
Thus, the sign is simply a capital letter L, written in an oldfashioned handwriting style, with one or two crossbars to show that 
it is being used as a symbol or abbreviation. The L stands for the 
Latin word libra — the name of a Roman unit of weight, which also 
gave rise to the abbreviation lb for a pound as a measure of weight, 
and to the French word livre.

$ — symbol of dollar, USA and some other countries since the 
XVIII century.
(First a few words about the word “dollar”, which is much older 
than the American unit of currency and which has its own history.