Money across borders

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Teresa's choiceListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9Past and presentGrammar exercise
10. 10Mixed conditionalsGrammar rule
11. 11Teresa's familyGrammar exercise
12. 12Say it naturallySpeaking practice
13. 13Different livesSpeaking practice
14. 14Let's discussDiscussion
15. 15Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: mixed conditionalsGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: one decision, two livesDiscussion

Words

• remittance/rɪˈmɪtns/

  money that a person working in another country sends to their family

• migrant/ˈmaɪɡrənt/

  a person who moves to another country or area to find work or a better life

• abroad/əˈbrɔːd/

  in or to another country

• back home/ˌbæk ˈhoʊm/

  in the place or country that you come from

• lifeline/ˈlaɪflaɪn/

  something that people depend on to survive, especially in a difficult time

• invest in/ɪnˈvest ɪn/

  to spend money on something so that it grows, improves or makes more money later

• transfer/ˈtrænsfɜːr/

  the act of sending money from one account or place to another (also a verb, /trænsˈfɜːr/)

• make ends meet/ˌmeɪk ˌendz ˈmiːt/

  to have just enough money to pay for the things you need

• depend on/dɪˈpend ɑːn/

  to need someone or something in order to live or succeed

• breadwinner/ˈbredwɪnər/

  the person in a family who earns the money that the family lives on

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about family and work.

1. Do you know anyone who works in another country to support their family?
2. Would you move to another country for a much better salary? What would you miss?
3. How do people in your family help each other with money?

Grammar rule

Mixed conditionals

A mixed conditional joins two times: a condition in one time and a result in another.

Condition	Result	Example
the past: if + had + past participle	now: would / could / might + verb	If he had taken the job in Seattle, he would be living there now.
now, or always: if + past simple	the past: would / could / might have + past participle	If I were a better cook, I would have made the cake myself.

Compare: the second conditional is now → now (If I had a garden, I would grow tomatoes). The third is past → past (If I had had a garden, I would have grown tomatoes).

Words like now, today, still and these days show a present result; yesterday, years ago and last year show a past one.