Устная часть - Чтение текста

Task 1. Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.

Money, also sometimes called currency, can be defined as anything that people use to buy goods and services. Money is what many people receive for selling their own things or services. There are lots of different kinds of money in the world. Most countries have their own kind of money, such as the United States dollar or the British pound. Today, money does not mean only things you can hold. It is numbers in bank accounts, saved in computer memories. A long time ago, people did not buy or sell with money. Instead, they traded one thing for another to get what they wanted or needed. When people changed from trading in things like cows and wheat to using money instead, they needed things that would last a long time. They must still have a known value and could be carried around. The first money in the world, metal coins, appeared during the 7th century BC in the country called Lydia, in the western part of what is now Turkey. This idea soon spread to Greece, the rest of the Mediterranean, and the rest of the world.