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Exercises

53.1 Fill the gaps using the past tense of verbs from the box. Be careful, most of them are
irregular.

buy spend lose pay cost
sell win waste find give

1 My car was five years old, so T.............. it and oo... a new one.
2 I was very sad when I................ my watch in the street. It was a present from my wife
and it 20... her a lot of money. Fortunately, somebody ................ it the next day and
took it to a Police Station.
3 Lo. over £2,000 for my computer, but it isn’t worth very much now.
4 My father 2.000000... me £50 last week but I ................ most of it on a ticket for a concert
on Friday.
5 Last week somebody ................ £1m in a game on television. It was incredibly exciting.
6 I’m afraid 1 ......0........ my money on those CDs because I never play them.

53.2 What can you say in these situations? Complete the sentences but do not use the underlined
words and phrases.
Example: You want to tell a friend that a restaurant wasn’t cheap.

1 You want to know the value of your friend’s gold ring.
How much is oo... ceceecceeeceeceeeeceteeeseeeseeneteeneenes ?
2 A friend wants to go to an expensive restaurant but you don’t have enough money.
ttetteeeteees
Pm afraid Dooce .
cette
ee
3 You want to borrow some money from a friend.

Could you .o....cccccccccccccccc ?
cece
cece
teeeettsteetesenesees
cence
e
4 You want to know how much a friend paid for her dictionary.
etteeeeetseeenees
How much oii... ccccccceeeeeeeeee ?
estes
53.3 How quickly can you answer these questions? Write down answers to all of them in one
minute, then go back and check. If possible, ask someone else the same questions.
CNNDNAPRWNHR If you lend something to someone, do they borrow it?
Is the currency in America called the dollar?
Is a five-pound note worth less than a fifty-pence piece?
If you waste money, do you use it well?
Is ‘sterling’ a currency?
If you ‘can’t afford’ something, do you have enough money for it?
Does ‘cost of living’ mean the same as ‘standard of living’?
If someone tells you a hotel is reasonable, is it very expensive?
53.4 Write down the approximate price of six things in your country, e.g. a daily newspaper, a
short bus journey, a cup of coffee in a bar/cafe, a ticket for the cinema, a takeaway
hamburger, a pair of jeans, etc. Do you think the price is expensive, reasonable, cheap?
Compare your answers with someone from the same town, and if possible, someone from a
different country.

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