(Intermediate) What if you could trade a paperclip for a house?

Kyle MacDonald details just exactly how he traded up from one red paperclip to a house, in only a year! It's an unlikely and amazing journey with lots of surprises along the way.

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What if you could trade a paperclip for a house?




Part 1.

0:38 to 1:54

1. How long ago did Kyle decide to trade his paperclip?

2. What happens in the board game Bigger and Better?

"We're moving liabilities into assets."

3. What does Kyle mean?

"We're improving each other's lives, albeit on a small scale."

4. What does albeit mean?

 Pause and discuss
Have you got anything on you right now that you could call a liability?



Part 2.

1:54 - 4:04

1. Synonym for "dream realised" is dream c____ t_____

2. What's a "blackout"?

3. What's an I O U?

4. When do we say "what do you say?" ?

5. rebranded, mishmash.

How did Kyle rebrand the IOU, keg and sign?

6. Grammar: When Kyle says "not only bla bla" the next thing he says will start with the word "b__ bla bla"

7."Seeing how it was the middle of winter...." - what does "seeing how" mean?

8. Why was the snow mobile an asset rather than a liability at this time?

9. "Who doesn't want to go to the Rockies this time of year?" What kind of question is this?

10. What was the catch for the trip to the Rockies?

11. What's a loophole?



Part 3.

1. What's blackmail?
2. What's an inside joke?

3. Turns out - what does it mean?

4. What did Alice Cooper ask Kyle to promise?

5. An afternoon with Alice Cooper was a "priceless opportunity" - what does that mean?

6. Why did Kyle make such an apparently bad trade?








Can you guess the order that Kyle traded his paperclip up to a house?








two-person trip to Yahk
cube van
recording contract
a year's rent in Phoenix
one afternoon with Alice Cooper
KISS snow globe
movie role
camp stove
doorknob
generator
instant party
fish-shaped pen
skimobile




Traded doorknob for a


traded snowmobile for a


traded cube van for a


traded recording contract for a


traded pen for a


traded fish-shaped pen for a


traded paper clip for a


traded doorknob for a


traded camp stove for a


traded instant party for a


traded two-person trip to Yahk for a


traded movie role for a


traded KISS snow globe for a


traded afternoon with Alice Cooper for a


traded a year's rent in Phoenix for a




The order:

Paperclip     fish-shaped pen      doorknob     camp stove     generator
instant party        snow mobile         two-person trip to Yahk       cube van
recording contract     a year's rent in Phoenix      one afternoon with Alice Cooper
KISS snow globe      movie role       two-story house

What do the italic, bold and enlarged words have in common, respectively?