Topic: Shopping
Mode: Interpretive
Level: Novice
Students will practice converting currencies of their culture(s) to that of a target culture, and vice versa.
Components of this activity: A worksheet
Instructions to the teacher
- Complete the worksheet below by filling in the left-hand column in each section with different amount of money (e.g. 100, 1000, 25000, etc).
- Print the worksheet and distribute to students. Ask students to use online calculators and convert each amount to the other currency.
- Check their conversions for correctness.
- Let students practice reporting their findings. E.g. “100 dollars are equal to 10,000 Kenya shillings.”
- Discuss as a class which currency is stronger and the implications of that.
Instructions to students
Practice converting between two currencies. Which currency is stronger?
Worksheet
| Currency A → | Currency B | Currency B → | Currency A |
| 10,000 Kenya shillings | 100 US dollars | 250 US dollars | 25,000 Kenya shillings |
| 2. | 2. | ||
| 3. | 3. | ||
| 4. | 4. | ||
| 5. | 5. |
Key:
Currency A: target country currency
Currency B: currency of students’ own country(ies)