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3-10 You use money to buy things       Accent: e Dictionary    Sound BrE

3-10 You use money to buy things

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AmE 1- watch the video. 2- watch it again repeating after the teacher. 3- read the transcript (optional), see if you understand. 4- watch the video again once or more times until you learn the lesson well. 5- now try to use some objects to reproduce the dialogue (more or less) so you can practise what you just learnt.

Español 1- mira el vídeo. 2- míralo otra vez repitiendo tras el profesor. 3- lee las explicaciones. 4- mira el video de nuevo hasta aprenderte
la lección bien. 5- ahora intenta usar algunos objetos para reproducir por tu cuenta el diálogo (más o menos) y así practicar lo aprendido.

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Transcript

This is money. This is money. You use money to buy food, to buy things to eat, to buy pens, to buy books. This is money.
This is a dollar. One dollar.
This is money too. This is a quarter.
One quarter, two quarters, three quarters, four quarters.
Four quarters is the same as a dollar.
This is a quarter of a dollar, This is a quarter of a dollar, this is a quarter, quarter.
Four quarters make one dollar.
This is a quarter of an apple.
Get it?
This is a quarter of an apple.
This is a quarter of a dollar.
Four quarters make one dollar.
Four quarters make one apple.

Español

You use money to buy food = el dinero se usa para comprar comida
To buy things to eat = para comprar cosas para comer (cosas de comer)
This is a quarter = Esto es una moneda de 25 céntimos (un cuarto)
Four quarters is the same as one dollar = 4 cuartos es lo mismo que 1 dolar
Four quarters make one dollar = 4 cuartos hacen un dolar
Get it? = ¿entiendes? ¿lo pillas?

En esta conversación vemos otra vez usado el "tú impersonal" (you use money to buy food)
TO BUY FOOD --> para comparar comida. La palabra TO puede actuar como partícula para formar el infinitivo:
- To drink = beber
- I want to drink = quiero beber
Pero también puede actuar como el equivalente de la preposición española "para" + infinitivo, usada para expresar finalidad, propósito:
- this glass is to drink = este vaso es para beber
- mone is to buy things = el dinero es para comprar cosas.

QUARTER --> Esta palabra significa literalmente "cuarto", "la cuarta parte". Pero en Estados Unidos hay una moneda de 25 céntimos que se llama "a quarter" (un cuarto), porque es la cuarta parte de un dolar (100 céntimos = 1 dólar).

GET IT? --> Aquí vemos de nuevo el verbo GET usado en el sentido de "entender".


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