Board Games - Monopoly

Recently the board game Monopoly was in the news.  I will tell you why in a minute but first, let me tell you a little about the game.  Monopoly is an American board game in which players travel around a board buying properties, building houses and hotels, and collecting rent from other players.  Monopoly includes many fun game pieces like a bank full of play money, little plastic houses and metal player tokens such as a train, a top hat, and a dog just to name a few.   

I, like many Americans, have many happy memories of playing this game with family and friends.  Most players have a favorite token that they use to move around the board and they choose that token every time they play.  My favorite is the iron.

Which brings me to the reason why Monopoly is in the news -  It all has to do with those little tokens.  You see Hasbro, the company that makes Monopoly decided to have an online contest to get rid of one token and add a new one.   After a month of voting, it was decided the iron token will no longer be in the game.  It has been replaced with a cat.  Lucky for me I like cats even more than irons.  

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English Blog - Monopoly  

This is a British website that includes lots of information for people learning English.  You will find a short video with the transcript and explanation about the idioms and wordplay used in the story.  

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