Digital currencies: another fake??

Digital currencies are attracting more and more people, but is it really safe to make such an investment on a currency you cannot use at the supermarket for the time being??? Here's a listening exercise for you to do and learn more about the issue:

... Bitcoin's energy cost  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

 

 

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Digital money, a good option to invest?

Digital, virtual!!!!  Everything is digital or virtual, but has it got a real value? That would be the case of money. Actually, there are fewer and fewer people that pay cash, that is to say, using coins and banknotes. We use credit cards, Pay Pal and other digital ways such as digital money.

 

There are many options to invest in this kind of money (What is the noun that comes from the verb 'to invest'? Is it 'inversion'?)

Previous post you can look up: Bitcoins, real currency or just a fake?

 

Here are some articles for you to read about the issue and a listening exercise:

• What Is Cryptocurrency? Here’s What You Should Know (Nerdwallet)

• Your money, your choices: could investing be a better option than saving? (The Guardian)

• Cryptocurrency scams triple in a year – at £27m total cost to victims (The Guardian)

• Listening exercise to do: "Would you invest in digital money?" (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

And now some activities for you to keep on learning English  >>>>

The English We Speak: 'Eat your heart out' (BBC Learning English)

What is the difference between these two sentences?

1. We had a few chances of reaching the summit.

2. We had few chances of reaching the summit because it was getting too dark.

English in a Minute: Few or A few??? (BBC Learning English). And this would also be the case between 'a little' and 'little'.

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SOLUTIONS to the exercises in the previous post /for further exercises of this level go to  Mock exams (4º ESO)/:

 

 47. 

Proposed answers:

A bike has got as many wheels as a motorbike, but it is not as fast

A bike is slower than a motorbike and it is not as big as a car.
However, a car is more comfortable than a bike, although it is not so economical

You go farther with a car than with a bike. You can also take a bus, but it is not so fast

If you go by car, you can take all your family with you.

If you go by bus, you will not spend so much money.

48.

1.  wa(l)king     cas(t)le    g(h)ost    (k)now      tu(r)ned     cou(l)d. 

2. road   ,    run        3. smooth , too      4. sing - sang - sung