Phrases for Being Rich & Poor

Step 1: Introduction (Warm-up) 🎯

Activity: Picture Discussion

• Show images of a luxurious lifestyle (e.g., mansion, expensive cars) and a modest lifestyle (e.g., small house, simple food).
• Ask:
  • What do you see in the pictures?
  • How would you describe the lifestyle?
  • Do you know any phrases to describe wealth or poverty?

💡 Teach simple words first: Rich 💰 | Poor 🏚

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Step 2: Teaching Key Phrases 📖

💰 Phrases for Being Rich:

1. Rolling in money
2. Living in luxury
3. Well-off / Well-to-do
4. Loaded / Filthy rich
5. Making a fortune
6. More money than sense
7. Living the high life
8. Raking in the cash
9. Born with a silver spoon
10. A millionaire’s lifestyle

Interactive Activity:
🧩 Match the Meaning – Provide sentences, and students match them with the right phrase.

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🏚 Phrases for Being Poor:

1. Hard up
2. Down and out
3. Living hand to mouth
4. Broke / Penniless
5. Struggling to make ends meet
6. In debt up to one’s ears
7. Not a penny to his name
8. Dirt poor
9. A shoestring budget
10. Barely scraping by

Interactive Activity:
🎭 Role Play – Give students different life situations where they act as rich or poor people in a conversation.

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Step 3: Speaking Practice 🗣

• Dialogue Completion: Give incomplete dialogues with missing words/phrases related to being rich or poor.
• Debate Activity: "Is money the key to happiness?" – Let students express opinions using learned phrases.
• Storytelling: Ask students to create a short story using at least 3 phrases from each category.

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Step 4: Fun Quiz & Recap 🎉

• True or False: Show sentences and ask if they are correctly used.
• Guess the Phrase: Describe a situation, and students guess the correct phrase.
• Word Challenge: Who can remember and say the most phrases correctly?