33.1 Match word form
each box to form collocations from the opposite page and use them to complete the sentence below (Borrow, Make, Spend, Stay, Supplement, a float, afortune, heavily, my income and then a payment)
1.
I make a payment of €500 every month to my credit-card account.
2.
When I was a student I got a job in a fast-food outlet to supplement my
income.
3.
I used to borrow on books when I was at university
4.
I had no grant or scholarship, so I had to spend a payment to
finance my studies
5.
Small firms find it difficult to stay a fortune when costs and
interest rates are high
33.2 Copy and
complete collocation bubbles using words from the box. Some words
collocate only with debt, some only
with overdraft and some with both. Use a
dictionary to help you find one
more collocation for each bubbles.
1. To arrange
a (overdraft)
2. A bad (debt)
3. To be in (overdraft)
4. To clear a
(overdraft)
5. Deep in
(debt)
6. Facility
(overdraft)
7. To
get a (overdraft)
8. To get
into (overdraft)
9. A
hefty (debt or overdraft)
10. The national (debt
or overdraft)
11. To pay off a (debt)
12. Ridden (debt)
13. To run up (debt)
14. An unauthorized (debt)
33.4 Answer the question
about collocations from the opposite page
1. What object is a person or company being compared to when we
use the collocation keep or stay a
float metaphorically?
float metaphorically?
(The object is
a company)
2. What are
you eventually expected to do with a loan ?
(No, I
will not expected to do with loan)
3. If a bank calls
in a loan, do they (a) give it (b)write it off (c) demand full payment
(They
write off)
4. If someone defaults
on a payment, do they (a) not make it (b) make it in full (c) partially
make it
(They not make
it)
5. What is the
crime called when someone make illegal use of another person’s credit card?
(The crime
called when someone do a default payment)
34.1 Match the beginning
of each sentence with its ending
1. The government is
finding it very difficult to curb (Inflation)
2. The country is suffering
because of the current economic (Climate)
3. Although heavy industry is in
decline, service industries are (Thriving)
4. The CEO is anxious to
safeguard his company’s (Thriving)
5. New machinery has enabled the
factory to increase its (Output)
6. The tax authorities plan to
tackle the issue of undeclared (Interest)
7. The budget plan explains how
we intend to allocate our various (Exclusion)
8. We must tackle and solve the
problem caused by social (Earnings)
34.2 Which of these
phrases would a Finance Minister be likely to use about
the economy under his/her own
guidance and which about the economy under a
previous rival government.
1. Build on success (the economy under
his/her own guidance)
2. Extend opportunity (the economy under
his/her own guidance)
3. Leave inflation unchecked (the
economy under a previous rival government)
4. Levy heavy
taxes (the economy under a previous rival government)
5. Meet
with success (the economy under his/her own guidance)
6. Poor
value for money (the economy under a previous rival government)
7. Rampant inflation
(the economy under a previous rival government)
8. Rising
unemployment (the economy under a previous rival government)
9. Safely
steer the economy (the economy under a previous rival government)
10. Steady growth (the
economy under a previous rival government)
11. Thriving black
economy (the economy under a previous rival government)
12. Thriving industry (the
economy under a previous rival government)
13. Uninterrupted
growth (the economy under a previous rival government)
34.3 Find the opposite of the
underlined words in these collocation in the opposite
page
1.
to invest for the short term (long)
2.
to restrict opportunity (clear)
3.
declared earnings (apparent)
4.
falling unemployment (get up)
5.
stunting growth (speed up)
6.
soaring profits (decline)
7.
private spending (public/general)
8.
to reduce cost (run up)
9.
to lower interest rates (higher)
10. to abolish a levy (round off)
34.4 Complete each sentence using words
from 34.3 (either those underlined above or their
opposites) in the aapropriate form.
1. The
government has more control over restrict than over run up
spending
2. Tax
inspectors make spot checks to ensure we do not have any declared earnings
3. If
you have a steady and secure income, then it may be sensible to invest for the long
term rather than the short
term
4. Reduce
unemployment is a sign of a healty economy
5. If the government wants to slow
down the economy by higher interest rates, then a
company’s costs will be higher
and so their profits may lower
6. A
progressive government will want to higher opportunity and to higher
growth
7. A
political party might think it was a good idea to slow growth down but it would
be
very unlikely to say that it
wanted to reduce growth
8. The
government has decided to run up a levy on commercial waste collocation
in order
to encourage recycling.
