General English Level 3 V 3

UNIT 04 Money mattersTOPIC 01 Have we got enough?

	LANGUAGE FOCUS 04 Talking about quantity
	In the conversation between Maria, Pedro, Jim and Rose we heard them talking about the prices of food in different restaurants. Here are two ways of talking about how much money people have.

1 as much as, not as much as

Look at the pictures:


Jack has $100	Karen has $100	Adi has $150

Jack and Karen have the same amount of money. We can say:

Jack has as much money as Karen.

Adi has more money than Karen and Jack. We can say:

Karen and Jack don't have as much money as Adi.
Karen doesn't have as much money as Adi.

Examples

1	Read the examples.
2	Listen to each example.
3	Practise saying the lines. Use the Pause button.

Graham has as much money as Gordon.
Amy doesn't have as much money as her sister.
Ibrahim has as much money as Rani.
Teresa and Martha don't have as much money as their brother.

2 enough, not enough, more than enough

Karen has $1000.
She wants to buy a sound system.
The sound system costs $950.

She has enough money to buy it.

Karen has $1000.
She wants to buy a new computer.
The computer costs $2500.

She does not have enough money to buy it.

Karen has $1000.
She wants to buy a camera.
The camera costs $500.

She has more than enough money to buy it.

Examples

1	Read the examples.
2	Listen to each example.
3	Practise saying the lines. Use the Pause button.

Kwok Wei doesn't have enough money to go on holiday.
We don't have enough money to eat in that restaurant.
Sally has got more than enough money to buy a bike.
They have got more than enough money to hire a car.

Now go to 05 LANGUAGE FOCUS Direct and indirect objects.