Before you read the article about money, think about the following questions:

• How many coins do you have in your wallet or pocket today?
• Do you remember what colour Canadian dollar bills are?
• Did you know that American dollar bills are always green?
• Who designs the money in your country?

A Woman on the $10 BillExercise 1A good way of checking your reading comprehension is by answering WH questions such as ‘what, where, who and why’. Read the following questions and find the answers in the text. Write the answers in the space provided, but do not use full sentences. Look at the example.

Example: Who will be on the new $10 American dollar bill? > A woman

• 1. When will the new $10 bill be available?

2. What did the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution give women?

3. What did Alexander Hamilton (the man on the current $10) sign?

4. Who will choose which woman will be on the new $10 bill?

5. What is the focus of the new bill?

6. Whose picture was on the $1 silver certificate for 5 years?

7. Why will the new $10 bill have innovative safety features?

8. Who will be able to easily handle the new $10 bill?

9. What does the group called Women on 20s want on the $20 bill?

10. Who is the U.S. Treasurer?

Exercise 2

In this text people said many different things. Look at the direct speech taken from the article and rewrite the sentences using reported speech. Look at the example.

Example:Direct speech: “I love money.” Thomas said.Reported speech: Thomas said that he loved money.

1. Direct speech: “America’s currency makes a statement about who we are and what we stand for as a nation,” Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said.

Reported speech: The Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said that American’s currency {{{made a statement about who they were and what they stood for as a nation.}}}

2. Direct speech: “We want to know what democracy means to you, to your family, and to our nation,” Lew said.

Reported speech: Lew said that they wanted to {{{know what democracy means to you, to your family, and to our nation.}}}

3. Direct speech: Lew said, “We want you to share your ideas, symbols, and designs for the new ten.”

Lew said that they wanted {{{to share their ideas, symbols, and designs for the new ten.}}}

4. Direct speech: “The planning of this has gone back several years,” he said.

He said that the planning {{{of this had gone back several years.}}}

5. Direct speech: “For many of us who have daughters, who have sisters, aunts and mothers, I think for all of all us — we go with what we know,” Rosie Rios said.

Rosie Rios said that for many of them {{{who had daughters, who had sisters, aunts and mothers, she thought for all of all of them – we went with what we knew.}}}

6. Direct speech: “Having something on the note that touches the American public every day is very symbolic not just for today, but for our future,” she said.

She said that having something on the note that {{{touched the American public every day was very symbolic not just for today, but for their future.}}}

Exercise 3

The following words are jumbled (mixed up). Put them in the correct order. Look at the example. All the words are related to money.

Example: yneom > money