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4 Ask students to complete the exercise. Check answers.
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1 Ask students to look through Section B again and decide 
which signs would be useful in their school.
2 Below you will fi nd a short text from a leafl et about tax-
free shopping. Ask students to fi nd out what you have to 
do in order to get a refund.
3 Ask students to fi nd out about tax-free shopping in their 
country.
1 Shopping
On departure, tax-free shopping stores offer an 11–18% 
cash refund. This depends on the amount spent in one 
store; for food items the cash refund is between 7 and 
8%. Make sure you look for stores displaying the tax-free 
shopping logo when shopping.
2 Refund Cheque
Ask for a Global Refund Cheque and confi rm that you 
live outside the country. The shop assistant will then wrap 
and seal the products.
Ensure that you write your name, address and ID / passport 
number on the cheque before going to the Refund Counter.
3 Refunding
When leaving the country, show our representative 
your ID, the sealed products and the Global Refund 
Cheque(s). You will then receive your Cash Refund.
Tax-free 
shopping
Real Reading 1 by Liz Driscoll
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Unit
4 
Can I get money here?
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• Ask students if they use ATMs for their own currency – and 
for foreign currency. Ask students where they can get foreign 
currency and get them to tick the boxes.
• Look at the example with the class. Make sure that students 
understand the meaning of debit card and credit card. 
Encourage them to try and work out the meanings of the 
other words in italics as they think about the speakers.
• Get students to complete the sentences. Check answers. 
Ask students to rephrase the completed sentences so that 
they are true for a Currency Exchange, e.g. You can use your 
debit card or credit card at a Currency Exchange, You need a 
passport to use a Currency Exchange
.