Part 2

1. How much money did you spend yesterday?
   Where did you spend it?
   What did you spend it on?
   Do you often spend that amount in one day?
2. How much money did your parents give you for an allowance when you were ten years old?
3. How much money do you have on you now? (Maybe not a polite question to ask.)
4. How much money do you have with you now? (Maybe not a good question to ask.)
5. How much time did you spend the last time you went shopping?
6. How often do you go shopping?
7. If someone gave you a lot of money, what would you do with it?
   If someone gave you a million dollars, what would you do with it?
8. Some people say that "money makes the world go around." Do you agree? Why or why not?
9. What bank do you use?
10. What do you need to buy next?
11. What do you spend most of your money on?
12. What do you spend the most money on each month?
13. What do you want to buy next?
14. What is something that you have bought recently that cost a lot of money?
15. What is something that you have bought recently that was a good bargain?
16. What is something that you have bought recently?
17. What is something that you want to buy, but don't have enough money to buy.
18. What is something that you want to buy, but think you never will.
19. What is the average salary in your country?
20. What is the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
    How much did it cost?
21. What is your opinion of discount stores?
22. What kind of things do you often shop for?
23. What kinds of things are you saving your money for?
24. What store did you like best and what store did you like least?
25. What was the last thing you bought for someone else?
26. What was the last thing you bought for yourself?
    Where did you buy it?
    why did you buy it?
27. What was the last thing you spent money on?
28. What's the most expensive thing you have ever bought?
29. What's the most expensive thing you've ever bought?
30. What's the most money you have spend on one thing?
31. What's the most money you have spent on something to eat?
32. What's the most money you have spent on something to wear?
    What did you buy?
33. What's your favorite place to shop?
34. What's your favorite shopping area or store?
35. Where did you buy ___? (your shoes / your watch / etc.)
    How much did you pay?
    When did you buy it/them?
36. Where do you keep your money?
37. Where do you usually buy food?
38. Where is your favorite shopping area?
39. Which costs more, a hamburger in America or a hamburger in your country?
40. Which costs more, your telephone bill or your electric bill?
41. Which do you prefer, large stores or small stores?
42. Which do you think is more important, love or money?
43. Which store do you go to the most often?
    Where is it?
    Why do you like to go there?
    Who do you often go shopping with?
44. Who do you spend money on?
45. In a marriage, do you think one person should handle the finances, or both?
46. How do you think money helps make us happy?
47. Do you think money is more important than love?
48. How much money do you want to earn each month?
49. What qualities must a person have to make BIG money?
50. Should children get an allowance (pocket money) from their parents?
51. When do you get your allowance?
    How long does it last?
    Is it enough money?
52. How do you usually spend your money? What do you usually buy?
53. How much should you give to your children?
54. How much do you give to your children?
55. Do you ever give money to beggars on the street? Why or why not?
56. Do you ever give money to charity? Why or why not?
57. If you found 100,000 won (or local currency) in a bag on the street, what would you do? Keep it?
58. What are you saving your money for?
    Do you want to buy something special?
59. Who takes care of the money in your house? 

Part 3

1. When you buy something, do you "shop around" and go to many stores to compare prices?
2. When you buy something, what is most important to you: price, quality, fashion trend, status/image?
3. Explain these proverbs: What do they mean? Say them in other English words.
4. The best things in life are free.
5. Time is money.
6. Save your pennies for a rainy day.
7. Money talks.
8. You can't take it with you when you go.
9. Money doesn't grow on trees
10. Your rich uncle just died and gave you 50,000,000 won. (or local currency)
11. How would you spend it?
12. What would you buy?
13. Would you spend it on yourself, put it in the bank or buy something for your family?
14. Would you spend it all?
15. What is the most you have ever spent on a gift?
16. What was it?
17. Who did you give it to?
18. What was the occasion?
19. If you had to save money, what can you do without?
20. I would stop spending money on ___.
21. If you needed to earn some extra money, how would you do that?
22. If you had a large amount of money, what would you do with it?
23. Have you or your family ever won any money in a lottery?
24. How much money would you have to win to be happy?
25. Why do people often want more money, no matter how much they have got?
26. Why are poor people in many cases more generous than rich people?
27. What are some reasons for people being poor? Can poverty be avoided?
28. How do people become rich?
29. Do you think that riches can have a bad effect on a person? How?
30. What do you do if you can't get the clerk's attention at the store?
31. Is it easier to return items in the U.S. or in your country?
32. If you can't find an item at the store, do you find a clerk and ask for help, or do you leave and go somewhere else?
33. If you don't want help when the clerk asks if you need help, what do you say?
34. Is it OK to bring children to the market or the department store?
35. Is it bad if one person or company controls the market that it specializes in?
36. For example, is it wrong for Microsoft to control most of the operating system software in the world?
37. Do you consider companies like Microsoft and people like Bill Gates smart and shrewd?
38. Some questions about Taxation.
39. In New Zealand at the moment the government is thinking of imposing a "flatulence tax" on farmers for the livestock they own, as the flatulence contributes to Ozone depletion (supposedly).
40. What is the most ridiculous tax in your country, past, or present?
41. Do you think taxes in your country are too high/low?
42. What about New Zealand Taxes? / What about taxes here?
43. What is the effect on the economy of high taxation?
44. What is the effect on the economy of low taxation?
45. What are some of the different kinds of taxes your country has?
46. If you were the ruler of your country, what would you do to change the taxation system?
47. What is the funniest tax you can think of to introduce?
48. Are you good at saving money?
49. What do you like spending money on? What don't you like spending on?
50. What would you love to buy but you can't afford?
51. What is the next "big" thing you are going to buy?
52. Have you ever given money to people who beg in the streets?
53. Do you have a credit card? How many?
54. Is it better to pay cash or by credit card?
55. What things do you pay cash for?
56. What things do you pay by credit card?
57. Do you pay your credit card on time?
58. Have you ever paid late your credit card? What happened?
59. Are credits cards a good thing?
60. Do/Did your parents give you an allowance? How much?
61. Have your parents ever given you a credit card to pay for something? What did you buy?
62. Should parents give a credit card to teenagers?
63. Have you ever lent money to someone? Who? What did he/she need the money for?
64. Have you ever borrowed money from someone? Who? What did you need the money for?
65. Who wouldn't you lend money to?
66. Do you play the lottery?
67. What kind of lottery do you play?
68. Do you play football pools?
69. Do you play slot machines?

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