CHECK YOUR ANSWERS ON THE COMMENTS SECTION:
A Complete the text with words or phrases from the box. Each word can only be used once. There are four extra words.
chuck donate fritter lavishly overdrawn overpriced overspend pay off pick up piles run up set aside squander wisely
Like many people I have a problem with shopping. My problem is that I am unable to stop. As soon as I get paid I’m off to the shops to (1) _______ away my hard-earned cash. I always tell myself that I won’t (2) _______ all my money and that I’ll try and (3) _______ as many bargains as possible, but in the end I find myself spending my money (4) _______ on things I don’t even need! What’s worse is that I find it really difficult to (5) _______ anything out and so I now have (6) _______ of rubbish that I don’t think I’m ever going to get rid of. Most months, when I look at my bank statements I find that I’ve gone (7) _______. And each month I swear I won’t (8) _______ again and each month I do. Now I’ve (9) _______ such big debts that I’m going to have to do something about them and try to (10) _______ a little amount each month.
B Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.
(11) We often throw our rubbish in large containers called dumps / skips / scraps.
(12) You can throw bottles into a special bottle dump / deposit / bank.
(13) Our bins are collected early on Tuesday morning. So we throw them away / set them off / put
them out on Monday night.
(14) You mustn’t throw ends / litter /scraps on the streets.
(15) What do you do with your food ends / litter / scraps?
(16) It’s amazing how much rubbish we throw away / litter / deposit
C Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. You may also need to use a negative prefix.
(17) At the moment things are quite _______ at home. (STRESS)
(18) I’m not sure if I’m _______ of most households in the UK. (REPRESENT)
(19) I was amazed at the number of _______ people in London. (HOME)
(20) The amount of rubbish people throw away is simply _______ , you’d never believe it! (IMAGINE)
(21) The cost is quite _______. Can you tell me how you think we’ll pay for it? (SUBSTANCE)
(22) Although his arguments were quite _______ , I’m still not sure if I agree. (PERSUADE)
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A
1 fritter
2 squander
3 pick up
4 lavishly
5 chuck
6 piles
7 overdrawn
8 overspend
9 run up
10 pay off
B
11 skips
12 bank
13 put them out
14 litter
15 scraps
16 throw away
C
17 stressful
18 representative
19 homeless
20 unimaginable
21 substantial
22 persuasive
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