A Discussion with Nadiia H. on "Money as a good servant, but a bad master"

English Club on Money is a good servant, but a bad master

Leader: Nadiia H.

March 22. 2014

 Money fact of the day: drug lord Pablo Escaban had so much cash, that rats ate 1 billion dollars of his money each year.

1. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘money’?  What would life be like without money? How would the world be different if all the money in the world was shared out equally among all people?

2. Does money make the world go round? How important is money to you? Does money talk? What does the expression, “money doesn’t grow on trees” mean? What would life be like if it did? Who and why might someone ask, “Do you think I’m made of money”?  Have you ever asked it?

3. Have you ever raised money for charity? Do you give money to beggars?  Do you agree that “the lack of money is the root of all evil” (Mark Twain)?

4. Bob Marley’s last words were “Money can’t buy life. Can money buy happiness, choice, and freedom? Money can't buy friends. But you can afford a better class of enemy” (Lord Mancroft). Why? What things do you enjoy spending money on? What is a waste of money (exactly to you)?

4. Does having a lot of money make someone more attractive? Do you agree with the idiom that “a fool and his money are easily parted”?

5. What is the easiest way to save money? What is the quickest way to make money honestly? What’s the best way of making a lot of money? Why? Do you believe that replacing furniture or buying some Chinese symbols could help to appeal money?

6.  Should parents involve their children into their house holdings with the help of money? How much pocket money should a teenager get?

How do you understand the following proverbs and sayings about money?

• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A good name is better than riches
• A good payer is master of another's purse
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
• He who pays the piper calls the tune
• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
• Money makes money
• Pay beforehand was never well served

More: http://www.englishclub.com/ref/Sayings/Money/

Thursday, March 27 - 5.30 pm – English Club with Alex E., Saturday, March 29 – 10.30 am – Alex . and Co