MONEY Read this text and answer the questions.. The British currency is the pound and the penny plural: pence.. Like in many other countries, there is a paper money banknotes and there
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Read this text and answer the questions.
The British currency is the pound and the penny (plural: pence) One pound (£1) consists of 100 pence (100p) Like in many other countries, there is a paper money (banknotes) and there are coins
You can find banknotes for £100, £50, £20, £10 and £5 The banknote for £1 is only used in Scotland
The coins are: £1, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p and 1p
What do the coins and banknotes look like? There are the coins and banknotes from the Bank of England, which are official – but you can find national versions too – English pound, the Scottish pound, the Welsh pound for example
On the front of the £5 note there is a portrait of Elisabeth II, on the back, from 2002, there is portrait of Elisabeth Fry, who was an English prison reformer, she wanted to make the treatment
of prisoners more humane This is the lowest denomination in value and the smallest in size, it is
also called fiver.
£1 = about 1.55 CHF (Swiss francs)
1 How many banknote values are there in the U.K.?
2 How many coins values are there?
3 Is the official pound a banknote or a coin?
4 Where is the banknote for £1 used?
5 Are there only English banknotes?
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7 What is the banknote for £5 called?
Listen to your teacher and write the prices.
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How do you … ?
Ask the price of something?
• How much is it?
• How much are they?
• How much does it cost?
• How much do they cost? piggy bank
Give the price of something?
• It’s £4
• They’re £4
• It costs £4
• They cost £4 wallet