tailieunhanh - Ebook Learning English as a Foreign Language for dummies: Part 2

(BQ) Part 2 this book includes these contents: English on the go (4 chapters), the part of tens (4 chapters), appendices. Invite you to consult this book. | Part III English on the Go W In this part . . . e hope that you get the opportunity to visit the UK, and to practise your English while you are there. The first thing you need to pack is this book! In this part, we give you lots of phrases related to travel and moving around that you can use. We help you to deal with banks and credit cards, and show you where and how to change money. We also help you with travel arrangements such as booking into a hotel, or asking for directions and using public transport in a new city. We include a chapter on how to handle emergencies, and how to describe health problems, as well as legal issues. We hope you won’t need to use the emergencies chapter, and that you’ll spend most of your time referring to the travel sections. Enjoy your trip to the UK! Chapter 11 Money, Money, Money In This Chapter ▶ Using cash machines and credit cards in the UK ▶ Visiting the bank ▶ Changing money ▶ Sending and receiving money to and from another country R egardless of the amount of money you have to spend while you’re in Britain, whether on holiday or working, this chapter is a good place to find out the ins and outs of spending it. Like a lot of countries, Britain relies more on ‘plastic’ (credit and debit cards) than it does on cash these days, and it’s more normal to pay by card than any other way. You can still pay in cash, of course, and use cash machines at most major banks and building societies as well as in large shopping centres. Splashing the Cash: Coins and Notes Unlike most of continental Europe, Britain hasn’t joined the euro currency yet and still retains its own currency made up of ‘pounds’ and ‘pence’. The coins in Britain are the following: ✓ 1p (one pence, or one ‘p’) ✓ 2p ✓ 5p ✓ 10p ✓ 20p ✓ 50p ✓ £1 (one pound) ✓ £2 198 Part III: English on the Go And the notes are: ✓ £5 (five pounds) ✓ £10 ✓ £20 ✓ £50 Banknotes are different colours so they’re easy to distinguish from