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Tap. Done. The coffee’s paid for and already forgotten. Phone buzzes …… thirty dollars gone, a charge you don’t recognize. That’s money now: never easier to spend, never harder to notice you’re spending it. This week brings four complete lessons on the gap between easy to tap and hard to track.
Digital Payments looks at the cashless world we live in: mobile wallets, QR codes, and the subscription your cat somehow signed up for. Cost of Living brings it home to rent, bills, and the budget that never quite survives the month. Finance for Business scales the conversation up to revenue, profit margins, and balance sheets. And The True Cost of Sneakers goes global and follows one ordinary purchase along the supply chain — the factory, the brand, the shipping, the shop — to ask where the money actually goes, and who keeps it.
A note on levels: the four lessons aren’t all set at the same level. Digital Payments and Cost of Living sit at the more accessible end, high elementary to pre-intermediate, built around everyday money students handle themselves. Finance for Business and The True Cost of Sneakers step up to pre-intermediate and above, with the vocabulary and concepts suited to more advanced business English students. So you can start lighter and build, or pick the pair that matches your class.
Digital Payments Visual Vocabulary
Cost of Living Talk Zone
Digital Payments Grammar Role Play (Causative)
The True Cost of Sneakers Flow Chart
