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Money collocations
This is a very useful worksheet for those who teach or learn collocations. It consists of four exercises on two pages: a matching exercise, opposites, synonyms and a gap-filling exercise. It can be edited to suit your needs.
make win
earn raise donate find
withdraw MONEY steal
save lose spend pay back invest
lend waste borrow
inherit owe
1. Match the collocation with the correct definition
- earn a) receive money from somebody who has died
- raise b) take money out of a bank account
- donate c) use money on something you don’t ne
- steal d) buy e.g. shares in a company
- win e) give sb money that they must return
- find f) get money from people for a purpose
- lose g) give money to an organization
- spend h) keep money for future use
- save i) give money back to sb you borrowed from
- lend j) give/pay money for something
- borrow k) not have any longer; not gain
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2. Write the opposites
a) lend –
b) lose (2) –
c) spend (2) –
d) donate –
e) pay back –
f) waste –
g) deposit –
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3. Write the synonyms
a) make –
b) gain –
c) collect –
d) give back –
e) put aside –
f) be in debt –
g) mug -
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4. Gap fill exercise – use some of the verbs from above in the correct form
a) Ian __________ some money in the book he had taken from the library.
b) How much money did your parents __________ you for the car?
c) You should be careful when you ___________ money from an ATM, because someone might be behind you planning to __________ it from you.
d) When her father died, she ____________ € 1,000,000.
e) Peter ______________ jackpot and he _______________ all the money within a year.
f) My uncle ____________ money for rainy days all his life. He _________ as little as possible.
g) When I was a student I had to _______________ lots of money from the bank. I __________ all the money back last year, so now I don’t _______ the bank anything.
h) When I was younger, I _______________ some money in a company. It was a smart move since they have been very successful and I’m a rich man now.
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