Financial Vocabulary and Passive Voice Practice
Financial Vocabulary
- budget: presupuesto
- cash: dinero en efectivo
- discount: descuento
- expenses: gastos
- fee: tarifa
- note: nota
- old jobs: viejos trabajos
- pocket money: dinero en bolsillo
- profit: ganancia
- queue: cola
- savings account: cuenta de ahorros
- salary: salario
- stuff: cosas
- on the house: en la casa
- pay someone back: devolver dinero
- shop around: dar una vuelta
- short of money: sin dinero
- splash out: salpicar
- afford: poder pagar
- borrow: tomar prestado
- charge: cargar
- lend: prestar
- owe: deberes
- purchase: compra
- rent: renta
- request:
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William Wycherley (1641 – 1716): The Country Wife (1675)
Upper-class town rake Horner
- Wants to seduce as many ladies as possible.
- Claims to be impotent
- Opportunity to be alone with married wives.
- Sexual intercourse is assumed to take place
- Repeatedly off stage
- Play is driven by succession of near discoveries of the truth about Horne’s sexual activities
- Saves himself by quick thinking and good luck
- Never becomes a reformed character
- Keeps his secret till the end.
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Vocabulary and Grammar Exercises for English Learners
Vocabulary
1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the sentences.
- Some people think that the wide, flared trousers popular in the 1970s will make a comeback one day.
- The 1950s film star James Dean became iconic after his death in a car crash, aged just 24.
- If I pass tomorrow’s maths exam, it will be a huge accomplishment.
- The gadget was just a fad, however, its popularity lasted just a matter of months.
- The clothes my parents are wearing in photos of them when they were my age look so outdated.
- It
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