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1、Unit1MoneyWarm-upActivitiesBackgroundInformationTextAnalysisExtendedActivitiesWritingContentWarm-upActivitiesI.PairworksWhatdoyouknowaboutmoney?Thinkaboutitsvalueandtalkwithyourpartner.II.GroupworkDifferentitemshavebeenusedasmoneyatsometimeinhistory.Workinsmallgroups,discussinghoweachofthemwasu
2、sedinhistoryorisstillbeingusedtoday.III.Thinkaboutandthenmakealistofallthedifferentcurrenciesyouknowintheworldtoday,forexample,yuan,dollar,pound…BackgroundInformationMoneyisanyobjectorrecordthatisgenerallyacceptedaspaymentforgoodsandservicesandrepaymentofdebtsinagivensocio-economiccontextorcount
3、ry.FunctionsofmoneyMediumofexchangeUnitofaccountStoreofvalueStandardofdeferredpaymentMeasureofvalueTypesofmoneyCommoditymoneyRepresentativemoneyFiatmoneyCoinagePapermoneyCommercialbankmoneyDigitalmoneyMoneyishistoricallyanemergentmarketphenomenonestablishingacommoditymoney,butnearlyallcontempora
4、rymoneysystemsarebasedonfiatmoney.Fiatmoney,likeanycheckornoteofdebt,iswithoutintrinsicusevalueasaphysicalcommodity.Itderivesitsvaluebybeingdeclaredbyagovernmenttobelegaltender;thatis,itmustbeacceptedasaformofpaymentwithintheboundariesofthecountry,for"alldebts,publicandprivate".Suchlawsinpractic
5、ecausefiatmoneytoacquirethevalueofanyofthegoodsandservicesthatitmaybetradedforwithinthenationthatissuesit.Theword“money”isbelievedtooriginatefromatempleofHera,locatedonCapitoline,oneofRome‘ssevenhills.IntheancientworldHerawasoftenassociatedwithmoney.ThetempleofJunoMonetaatRomewastheplacewherethe
6、mintofAncientRomewaslocated.Thename"Juno"mayderivefromtheEtruscangoddessUni(whichmeans"theone","unique","unit","union","united")and"Moneta"eitherfromtheLatinword"monere"(remind,warn,orinstruct)ortheGreekword"moneres"(alone,unique).IntheWesternworld,aprevalenttermforcoin-moneyhasbeenspecie,stemmi
7、ngfromLatininspecie,meaning'inkind'.MoneySupplyThemoneysupplyofacountryconsistsofcurrency(banknotesandcoins)andbankmoney(thebalanceheldincheckingaccountsandsavingsaccounts).Bankmoney,whichconsistsonlyofrecords(mostlycomputer