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Customer Service in English Language

MONEY

Vocabulary

Earn: to receive money as payment for work that you do.Charge: to ask an amount of money for something, especially a service or activity

Waste: an unnecessary or wrong use of money, substances, time, energy, abilities, etc.Save: to prevent time, money, or effort being wasted or spentPay: to give money to someone for something you want to buy or for services providedAfford: to be able to buy or do something because you have enough money or timeCost: the amount of money needed to buy, do, or make something

VocabularyBorrow: to get or receive something from someone

with the intention of giving it back after a period of time. Ex: I had to borrow a pen from my teacher for doing my exam.

Lend: to give something to someone for a short period of time, expecting it to be given back. If a bank or other organization lends money, it gives money to someone who agrees that they will pay the money back in the future, usually with extra money added to the original amount.

Guess the word

One of the students thinks any of the words related to money that we have learnt. The student must write this word in a piece of paper and give it to the teacher with his name on it. The rest of the group have to guess which word he or she thought by asking yes/not questions.

Past Simple (I did)Affirmative Interrogative Negative Short

AnswersI played Did I play? I didn’t play Yes, I did

No, I didn’tShe played Did she play? She didn’t play Yes, she did

No, she didn’t

Subject + base form + 2-ed” for regular verbs / see list of irregular verbs for irregular forms

REMEMBER: There’s not difference with 3rd person singular. It’s equal for all subject pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, you and they.

Past SimpleSpelling

Most verbs take –ed as in I stay I stayedWe add –d to verbs ending in –e as in I phone I phonedFor verbs ending in consonant + y, we drop the –y and add –ied as in I cry I criedFor verbs ending in one stressed vowel between 2 consonants, we double the last consonant and add –ed as in I stop I stoppedFor verbs ending in –l, we double the –l and add –ed as in I travel I travelled.

Past SimpleUse

We use the past simple for actions which finished at a specific time in the past as in I painted my flat last yearWe use the past simple for past habits as in I used to spend my summer holidays in Asturias.

Time ExpressionsYesterday, last night, two weeks ago, in 2004

Talk to your partner Explain him / her the last situation in which you

were unhappy because you were charged with something you didn’t want to pay.

1. Let us know why you didn’t want to pay it2. Let us know how the situation was solved3. Were you happy with the given solution? Why?4. How would you think it would be solved?5. How did the establishment dealt with the situation?

ExercisesEnglish File Intermediate Work Book. Page 11

1. Vocabulary money. Spend or Save?2.What’s so good about CASH Internet Banking plc3. Reading: The Man who quit money

ExercisesEnglish Grammar in Use. Unit 11. Page 23