Lecture on Money, Prepositions, Scams, and Charitable Work

2.1 Money and Verbs

• Expressions involving money:
  • Inheriting, saving, lending, borrowing, wasting
  • Affording, charging, costing, owing, investing, earning
  • Value of assets (e.g., house worth €200,000)
  • Raising money for projects

2.2 Prepositions and Money

• Key prepositions used in financial transactions:
  • Paying by cash or credit card
  • Paying for meals, spending on items
  • Investing in property, lending to friends
  • Borrowing from banks, being charged for goods
  • Getting into debt and the aversion to it

2.3 Nouns Related to Money

• Important financial terms:
  • Bill, salary, tax, loan, budget, mortgage
  • Contactless payment, insurance

2.4 Phrasal Verbs

• Usage in context:
  • Taking out money, paying back loans
  • Living off parents, living on a salary

2.5 Vocabulary

• Relevant words:
  • Borrow, cost, dollar, honest, promise, shopping
  • Clothes, loan, note, sold

2.7 Situations and Costs

• Examples:
  • Going shopping, borrowing money
  • Winning money, doing nothing wrong
  • Affording mortgages, working in retail

2.8 Conversation on Purchasing

• Discussion about shoes costing under £100, affordability
• Mention of phone bills and iPad purchases

2.9 Experience and Recent Actions

• Past experiences and actions:
  • Inheriting money, meeting individuals
  • Losing credit cards
  • Actions like cutting fingers, missing trains
  • Watching films multiple times, job searches

2.10 Personal Events

• Events and timelines:
  • Marriage dates, daily routines

2.11 Visits and Purchases

• Past purchases and travel:
  • Visits to Madrid, buying computers

2.12 Scams and Prevention

• Introduction to scams:
  • 3 million UK victims annually, losing £1,200 on average
• Listener stories:
  • Heather's email scam from a friend abroad
    • Importance of verifying emails from friends
  • Carl's lottery scam
    • Never trust messages about winning
  • Paul's bank scam
    • Banks never ask for transfers over phone
• General advice:
  • Be suspicious of strange emails and calls
  • Never share bank details unless certain

2.13 Charitable Work by Adalante Africa

• Origin story:
  • Founded in 2008 after a trip to Uganda
  • Focus on building primary schools for orphans
• Projects since 2010:
  • Children's home for orphans
  • Community health and nutrition projects
  • Water tank and sunflower oil factory projects
  • Educational projects, including adult literacy classes
• Volunteer involvement:
  • European and Ugandan collaboration
  • Aim for Ugandan-led projects

2.14 Personal Stories

• Significant impacts:
  • Success stories of children like John M and baby Rose
  • Importance of changing lives through charity work

2.15 - 2.16 Grammar Focus

• Use of present perfect tense:
  • Examples in personal and continuous actions

2.17 - 2.20 Emotional Responses

• Adjectives describing emotions and situations:
  • Angry, tiny, terrified, fascinating
  • Starving, huge, boiling, filthy, delighted
  • Positive, amazed