Unit 4 Culture

The United States dollar

  • The United States Dollar is the official currency of the USA.
  • There are one hundred cents to one dolar.
  • Each dollar has got the portrait of a famous US president or politician on it.
  • Us dollar banknotes are made of cotton.
  • There are all the same size.
  • You can also see a watermark to stop people making copies of banknotes.

This is the one dollar banknote and George Washington is on it. He was the first president of the USA.


Video: How money is made


Vocabulary:

banknotes: billets

portrait: retrat

cotton: cotó

watermark: filigrana