Y5C have been studying information texts in literacy. We undertook work on dictionaries, thesauruses and glossaries.
As part of our project 'Show me the money,' we found lots of different slang terms for money such as:
buck, clam, dosh, dough, loot, bones, coin, lolly, moolah, paper, shrapnel, readies, spondulicks and wonga
A "score" is £20.
A "pony" equals £25.
A "bullseye" is £50.
A "ton" or "century" is £100.
A "monkey" is £500.
A "grand" (or "Bag of Sand") commonly means £1,000
We also looked at cockney rhyming slang and found:
'bread & honey' = money
'taxi driver' = fiver
'Big Ben' = £10
'Nifty' =£50
We enjoyed creating some of our own.
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