爱说英语第111期:孩子们应该学习个人理财吗?
日期:2012-12-21 14:37

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Answer the following questions about the video.

1) What is the currency of Lithuania?

a) Euro

b) Lita

2) She got money through ________ .

a) one of her parents

b) a part-time job

3) She spent more money on _________ .

a) transportation

b) lunch

本期话题

Topic:Should children be taught about finance?

Christophe: Hello, I am Christophe from Belgium, and this is Aiste from Lithuania and for elllo.org this is the question of the day: Should kids learn about personal finance? Aiste, what is your opinion about that?


Aiste: Well, I think it should definitely learn about personal finance, so opinion any kids shouldn't be a lot of money, and shouldn't think that money just appears when you go to your mom or dad and say, " I want this. I want that - and - please give me money for that, so if the kid feels that money is a limited thing, I think that's the first step to learn about personal finance. What's your opinion, Christophe?


Christophe: Wait! But you told me that when you were a small girl, you went to your daddy and you said 'Daddy, can I have money, please?' and it was all the time like that.


Aiste: Yes, but my amount was kind of limited, and every litas I got, that's the currency in my country, every litas was counted for a certain purpose, so my dad knew exactly that my transportation costs would be two litas and I had five litas for my lunch during the day, and that was it. So it was really ... because I used to go to school for a kind of locked time and I had to each lunch, and so because he knew that, I couldn't have any extra money that I would use that for for example, if I would need some puzzle, or I would like to go somewhere, I couldn't actually save unless I didn't eat. So the money was actually limited, so I could feel that this was not just get as much as you want.


Christophe: So what you're saying is that you learned about personal finance?


Aiste: Yes, I think so.


Christophe: So that's good.


Aiste: Well, probably.


听力答案

b a b


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重点单词
  • puzzlen. 谜,难题,迷惑 vt. 使困惑,使为难 vi. 迷
  • countedvt. 计算;认为 vi. 计数;有价值 n. 计数;计
  • certainadj. 确定的,必然的,特定的 pron. 某几个,某
  • transportationn. 运输,运输系统,运输工具
  • limitedadj. 有限的,被限制的 动词limit的过去式和过去