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- 1 a/ Look at the pictures. What do you think they have in common? What do you think the text is about? Read and find out.
- b Read the text again and choose the most appropriate title for it. A world without money ........ Money, past and present ........ история The history of coins монен
- Have you ever wondered 1) ........ the world was like before cash, cheques and credit cards? Well, 2) ........ the invention of money, people bought and sold goods through a system known as 'bartering'. This meant that they 3) ........ goods. For example, if someone wanted some tomatoes and had a basket of fruit to offer, he swapped it with someone else 5 who had tomatoes 4) ........ wanted to get some fruit. An interesting fact is that the word 'salary' has its origins in the Latin word for 'salt', which is what the 5) ........ Romans used as a means of payment.
- 6) ........ who lived in the part of the world that is now Turkey, invented the first coins nearly 3,000 years ago. Paper money
