Reading and Listening Activity: How to Do a Budget

Pair Work
Factual
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What may some regular payments be?

What can help you work out your expenses?
Before going shopping, what should you do?
What should you do after 3 or 6 months? What for?
5. If you happen to receive extra money, what should one do?

Lexical
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Explain get off the treadmill.

What is a shopping docket?
What is understood by to give (something) a boost?
Explain to be in the red.
What is the difference between pay and pay off?

Discursive-rhetorical
1. What kind of text is this?
2. What is the intention of the author(s)?

Extra textual
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Do you do a weekly / monthly budget yourself?

Is the Budget Planner helpful?
Were the links in the text useful? How? Why not?
What are your own money priorities?
5. What are some of the extras you usually get?

Now you will take turns to read the text aloud.

Listening activity
Listen to the six people in the first video clip. Take notes in order to get
the main idea of what each of them says. Then, paraphrase those main
ideas.