THE 1,000,000 BANK NOTE (Level 2)

Henry accidentally got to England and he has only 1 dollar in his pocket. Just in a month he can make 1000000 pound. How did he do that?

THE 1,000,000 BANK NOTE

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Vocabulary:

1. promising: very good in the future
2. sailboat: a boat with sails 
   
3. on board: on the ship, or a train
4. stormy: very bad weather with a lot of rains
5. desperate: someone in very trouble and needs help
6. servant: a person who works for the rich people
7. stare: look at someone or something for a long time
8. bet: to win money if you are right and to lose money if you are wrong
9. argue: when two or more people talk about something angrily because they think differently
10. transaction: doing business
11. starve to death: to die because you are hungry
12. steal (past tense stole - stolen): to take something without asking
13. poor: not rich
14. feel hurt: feel uncomfortable because someone do bad things to you
15. subject: the main thing
16. joke: a funny thing for people to laugh and have fun
17. faint: when you faint, you don't know anything (e.g. when you are tired, shocked, terrified...)
18. worth: how expensive something is
19. apologize: to say sorry
20. hurry: to go very quickly
21. awful: very bad
22. on time: when you are not late
23. fog: a kind of smoke you see in the very early morning
24. signature: your name written by your own writing
25. asylum: a hospital for crazy people
26. bill: the money note
27. tailor: a person who makes clothes
28. useless: when something has no use at all
29. unattractive: not beautiful, not attractive
30. nod: to move your head from up to down (e.g. to show that you agree)
31. change: money with little value
32. trouble: difficulty
33. package: something with a cover (e.g. paper, wood, plastic,...) outside
34. millionaire: a very rich person
35. elegant: very stylish and beautiful
36. measure: to get the length of something
37. customer: a person who goes in the shop to buy something, usually to show that they are rich
38. luxury: expensive things that the rich people have
39. ambassador: a very high rank person in the government
40. on credit: when you buy something and you pay money later, you buy on credit
41. duke: a high rank British nobleman
42. duchess: the wife of the duke
43. earl: a British rank that is below a marque and above a viscount
44. countess: female rank of a count or earl
45. viscount: a British rank that is below a earl and above a baron
46. celebrity: a famous person
47. steak: a slice of meat
48. shares: a part of a business, a part of a company
49. precedence: the order of what is first and what is next...
50. sardine: a kind of fish
51. strawberry: a small red fruit 
    
52. cribbage: a kind of card game
53. debt: when you borrow money from other people, you have a debt
54. marvelous: very great
55. scared: very afraid
56. shake (past tense shook): to hold and move up and down (e.g. shake hands)
57. guarantee: to asure that something is true
58. share: to split (eg. the money)
59. surprise: when something is very new and sudden
60. certificate: a paper to prove something is true
61. deposit: the money you let the bank keeps for you
62. astonishing: very surprising 
63. forgive (past tense forgave): to forget the mistake of someone
64. lap: the upper part of the leg
65. amazed: surprised
66. stepfather: not your real father, but the new husband of your mother
67. cash: paper money
68. picture frame: the thing to hold the picture 
    
69. valuable: very good and expensive