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? (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.
