托福口语[突破英语等级考试].pptVIP

提取有用信息 1.broad → anything could be used to buy eg: coins bill; barter (direct exchange) 2.narrow→anything must be accepted as payment eg: √ coins bill; × vegetable 整合笔记，最终开口 The professor in the lecture gives us two different kinds of definitions about money. Under the broad definition, money means anything that can be used to buy something else. For example, coins and bills. If we take a taxi, we can pay the driver with coins or bills, and then the driver can buy vegetable from a farmer by using them. But coins and bills are not the only form of money. We can also use one thing to exchange another one directly. For example, if a farmer take a taxi, s/he may use vegetable as the payment. So here we consider the vegetable as a form of money. Under the narrower definition, money is anything which must be accepted as payment. Take the US for an instance, coins and bills are the only legal payment. Therefore, a taxi driver must accept coins and bills as the payment while don’t have to accept vegetables as the payment. Sample answer 1 The professor said that the money…money is a medium of exchange, so anything you can purchase something with is considered to be money, that’s one definition. That means, when you…she uses the examples of taxi driver who accept money for his ride. But if he drives the fruit selling person he can also, instead of money, accept fruit uh… for his drive, for the drives he gives to the fruit person. So in that case, the fruit is the medium of exchange, not the money. So under the first definition dollar bills and coins are money but also…also other medium exchange like fruit in the case of the taxi driver. Uh the second definition, it’s the legal definition. The legal definition , just the coins and dollar bills are legal uh.. legal money.. In the definition. Comments Her pronunciation and intonation are very good. She use complex grammars and speak sometimes very quick but the ideas are eas